Mēlpaṭṭi, hero-stone, time of Kampavikramavarman, year 10

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00209.

Summary: Hero-stone commemorating the death of Perunakar koṇṭa Kāviti.

Hand description:

The medial vowels i and ī are interchangeable.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Version: (f2f3eaa), last modified (18e0138).

Edition

⟨1⟩ kō-vicaiya-kampa-vikkirama-parumaṟku (yā)⟨2⟩ṇṭu patt-āvatu

paṭuvūr-k-kōṭṭattu mīy¿a?⟨ā⟩ṟu-nāṭṭu-k kā⟨3⟩vaṉṉūr piruti-kaṅkaraiyar taṇṭu nikka vāṇa⟨4⟩(raiyar) paṭaivar pe(runa)kar-k koṇṭa-k kāv¿a?⟨i⟩ti netirttu⟨5⟩(v aniyar) ⟨6⟩ (E)ṟittu ⟨7⟩ paṭṭār

Apparatus

⟨4⟩ kāv¿a?⟨i⟩ti ⬦ kāvati VVA.

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1–2) Tenth year of the victorious king Kampavikramavarman.

(2–7) When the army of Pirutikaṅkaraiyar was stationed (nikka1) [in] Kāvaṉṉūr in the Mīyārunāṭu in the Paṭuvūrkkōṭṭam, Perunakar koṇṭa Kāviti2, a soldier of Vāṇaraiyar3, having ... fell.

Commentary

Bibliography

Edited in Venkatasubba Ayyar 1935–1936 with facsimile and English translation (EI 23, no. 22); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 209); revised here by Emmanuel Francis (2022), based on previous editions and published facsimile.

Primary

[VVA] Venkatasubba Ayyar, V. 1935–1936. “The Melpatti inscription of Vijaya-Kampavikramavarman.” EI 23.22, pp. 143–147.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Page 551, item 209.

Secondary

Venkoba Rao, G. 1921. G.O. No. 183, 23rd September 1921, Epigraphy, Annual report for the year 1920-21 of the Assistant Archaeological Superintendent, Recorded. No place. Page 74, appendix C/1921, item 171.

Venkatasubba Ayyar, V. 1943. South Indian inscriptions. Volume XII: The Pallavas (with introductory notes in English). South Indian Inscriptions 12. Madras: Government Press. Page 46, item 101.

Notes

  1. 1. That is, nīkka?
  2. 2. That is, "the minister who took Perunakar".
  3. 3. That is, "the Bāṇa king".