Vañcikkuḻi, time of Narasiṁhavarman, year 24

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00498.

Summary: Hero-stone inscription commemorating the death of Kalimanta Ati Araicaṉ.

Hand description:

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Version: (6764560), last modified (893ef97).

Edition

⟨1⟩ kō-vicai⟨ya⟩-naraiciṅka-paruma⟨2⟩ṟkk¿i?⟨u⟩ yāṇṭu Irupatt¿i?⟨u⟩ nāl-Āvatu

⟨3⟩ vañci¡k!⟨kk⟩uḻi Uṭai¡A!⟨ya⟩ṉ kalimanta Ati ⟨4⟩ Araicaṉ Aṟa¡Ū!⟨yū⟩r mēl ceṉṟu paṭṭāṉ

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ °vicai⟨ya⟩° ⬦ °vicai° R.

⟨3⟩ vañci-¡k!⟨k-k⟩uḻi ⬦ vañcikuḻi R.

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1–2) Twenty-fourth year of the victorious king Naraiciṅkaparumaṉ.1

(3–4) Kalimanta Ati Araicaṉ, the lord of Vañcikkuḻi, died when marching (ceṉṟu2) upon Aṟayūr.

Bibliography

Edited in Rāmēṣ 2008 (Āvaṇam 19.2), with a picture.

This digital edition by Emmanuel Francis, based on previous edition(s).

Primary

[R] Rāmēṣ, Rā. 2008. “vañcikkuḻi naṭukaḷ.” Āvaṇam 119, p. 2. Item 2.

Notes

  1. 1. Sanskrit Narasiṁhavarman, that is, the Pallava king Narasiṁhavarman I according to Rāmēṣ 2008.
  2. 2. Literally: going.