Ālaṅkuppam, time of Dantivikramavarman, year 14

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis (emfr).

Summary: Hero-stone inscription commemorating the death of Cattima Vakilavaṉ Vīraiyar.

Palaeographic description: Early Tamil script.

Language: Tamil (tam) [Grantha (grantha), Tamil (tamil)].

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00435.

File path: DHARMA_INSPallava00435.xml.

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Edition

⟨01⟩ śrī
⟨1⟩ kō-vi⟨cai⟩ya-danti-vikk(i)rama-paru-
⟨2⟩ ma(r)kku yāṇṭu patiṉ nā-
⟨3⟩ lk-āvatu Aṭaiyāṟu-nāṭu ma-
⟨4⟩ l(ai)yaṉṉār āḷa Orukil maṇaṟ-
⟨5⟩ -c-cuṉai mēṟ paṭai vara Ūr Aḻiy(ā)-
⟨6⟩ maiy kāttu paṭṭāṉ catti
⟨7⟩ ma (va)kilavaṉ v¡i!raiyar-k (kal)
⟨8⟩ pe ⊓ṉṉ(ai)

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ ma⟨4⟩l(ai)yaṉṉār ⬦ maliyaṉṉār ARIE.

Translation

⟨01⟩ Prosperity!

⟨1–3⟩ Fourteenth ⟨year⟩ of the victorious king Dantivikkiramaparumar.¹

⟨4–8⟩ Stone (kal) ⟨for⟩ Cattima Vakilavaṉ Vīraiyar, who fell protecting the village without arm (aḻiyāmai) (for it, that is, the village), while Malaiyaṉ (malaiyaṉṉār) was ruling over the Aṭaiyāṟunāṭu ⟨and⟩ while an army was coming at once (orukil = orukāl?) on Maṇarccuṉai … (peṉṉai).

Bibliography

Edited in No name 1991–2019 (Āvaṇam 11.2). Text in Dayalan 2005.

This revised edition by Emmanuel Francis, based on the estampage published in ARIE 2000-01.

Primary

[Āvaṇam] No name. 1991–2019. Āvaṇam. 30 vols. Tanjore: Archaeological Society. Volume 11 (July 2000), item 2.

[D] Dayalan, D. 2005. Computer application in Indian epigraphy (Pallava period). 3 vols. New Delhi: Bharatiya Kala Prakashan. Volume 3, appendix I, page 1289, item 54.

[ARIE] ARIE 2000-01. Annual report on Indian epigraphy for 2000-01. Edited by T. S. Ravishankar. New Delhi: Archaeological Survey of India, 2015. Pages 4, 94, appendixes B/2000-2001, item 461, plate IV.

Secondary

IAR 2000-01. Indian Archaeology 2000-01: A Review. New Delhi: Archaeological Survey of India, 2006. Page 169, item 21.

Notes

1. Sanskrit Dantivikramavarman.

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