Tā-Veḷūr, hero-stone, time of Kampavarman, year 8

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00202.

Summary: Hero-stone commemorating the death of Kāḷamaṉ.

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Version: (731357b), last modified (18e0138).

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

kō-vicaiya-kampaparumaṟku yāṇṭ’ eṭṭ-āvatu

⟨2⟩ vayiramēka-vāṇa-kō-v-araiyar āḷat ⟨3⟩ takaṭūr-nāṭṭu-p pākāṟṟūr-k katava-mātēvaṉ makaṉ kāḷama(ṉ) ⟨4⟩ mīykoṉṟai-nāṭṭu mēlvēḷūr Iruntu-vāḻā-ninra kālattu ⟨5⟩ muruṅkai-cēri nattata [3*] ṉṟamaiyaṉār makaḷai-k- ⟨6⟩ kaḷḷar piṭik [1*] ttūran [1*] koṇṭey(ya) [1*] ⟨7⟩ Avaḷai viṭuvittu-t tāṉ paṭṭāṉ kāḷamaṉ

Apparatus

⟨2⟩ āḷat ⬦ āḷt K; āḷat IP.

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1) Prosperity! Fortune!

(1) Eight year of the victorious king Kampavarman.

(2–7) ...

Commentary

Bibliography

Edited in Kācinaṭaṉ and Tāmōtaraṉ 1980 (SII 12, no. 99); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 202); encoded and first translated here by Emmanuel Francis (2022), based on previous editions.

Primary

[K] Kācinaṭaṉ, Naṭaṉa. and Ku. Tāmōtaraṉ. 1980. kaḷveṭṭu: ōr aṟimukam. Madras: TNDSA. Page 84, item 18.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Page 539, item 202.

Secondary

Krishnamacharlu, C. R. 1937. Annual report on South Indian epigraphy for the year ending 31st March 1934. Delhi: Archaeological survey of India (Manager of Publications). Page 12, appendixes B/1933-34, item 68.