# Corakōlatūr, time of Nandivikramavarman, year 17

Emmanuel Francis

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00500

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy)

File path: DHARMA_INSPallava00500.xml

Language: Tamil [Grantha, Tamil]

Commit: 2026-10-08 12:16 (1b1b17c), last modified 2026-09-29 11:09
(6edbbfa)

## 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.

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

⟨2⟩ kō-vicaiya-nanti-vikkira(m)⟨3⟩ma-parumaṟk¡i!⟨u⟩ 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.

[1] Sanskrit Nandivikramavarman.