Ālaṅkuppam hero-stone
Editor: Emmanuel Francis.
Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00435.
Summary: Hero-stone erected in honour of Cattima Vakilavaṉ Vīraiyar.
Hand description:
Early Tamil script.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
Version: (dc2ee33), last modified (543c72d).
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!⟨ī⟩raiyar-k (kal) ⟨8⟩ pe ṉṉ(ai)
Apparatus
⟨1⟩ ma⟨4⟩l(ai)yaṉṉār ⬦ maliyaṉṉār ARIE.
Translation by Emmanuel Francis
(01) Prosperity!
(1–3) Fourteenth [year] of the victorious king Dantivikramavarman.
(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; re-edited here by Emmanuel Francis (2020), based on the estampage published in Ravishankar 2015.
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] Ravishankar, T. S. 2015. Annual report on Indian epigraphy for 2000-01. New Delhi: Archaeological Survey of India. 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.
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