Corakōlatūr, time of Nandivikramavarman, year 17

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis (emfr).

Summary: Hero-stone inscription commemorating the death of a hero (Nāyakar Ataṭṭiyār) and recording a land donation to his son Ceruvaliyār.

Palaeographic description: The letter ḷ has a peculiar form.

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

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00500.

File path: DHARMA_INSPallava00500.xml.

Version: 2026-08-14 13:33 (d9e9623), last modified 2026-07-17 15:32 (ecb0276).

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī
⟨2⟩ kō-vicaiya-nanti-vikkira(m)-
⟨3⟩ ma-parumaṟk¡i! yāṇṭu patiṉ ēḻ-āva-
⟨4⟩ tu pal-kuṉrā-k-kōṭṭattu maṇṭaikuḷa-nā-
⟨5⟩ ṭṭu-c curai-k-kuḷattu-t toṟu-k-kōḷil
⟨6⟩ ppaṭṭ(ā)r nilam peṟṟ(u/a) nāyakar Ataṭ-
⟨7⟩ ṭiyār makaṉār ceruvaliyār

Apparatus

⟨5⟩ curaikkuḷattu • The reading cuṉaikkuḷattu is a possibility, but ṉ has not such a long stroke in the inscription.

Translation

⟨1⟩ Prosperity! Fortune!

⟨2–4⟩ Year twenty-seven of the victorious king Nantivikkiramaparumaṉ.¹

⟨4–7⟩ Ceruvaliyār, son of Nāyakar Ataṭṭiyār, who fell in a cattle-raid at Curaikkuḷam in the Palkuṉrākkōṭṭam (and) in the Maṇṭaikuḷanāṭu, obtained a land.

Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 2018–19 (ARIE/2018-2019/B/2018-2019/371), with visual documentation.

This digital edition by Emmanuel Francis, based on the visual documentation published in ARIE 2018–19.

Secondary

[ARIE] ARIE 2018–19. Annual report on Indian epigraphy for 2018-19. Edited by K. Munirathnam. New Delhi: Archaeological Survey of India, 2019. Pages 4, 85, appendixes B/2018-2019, item 371, plate XII.

Notes

1. Sanskrit Nandivikramavarman.

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