Toraippāṭi, time of Mahendravarman, year unclear

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis (emfr).

Summary: Hero-stone inscription commemorating the death of a hero during a fight.

Palaeographic description: Note the epenthetic u for r at the end of words.

Language: Tamil (tam) [Vaṭṭeḻuttu (vaṭṭeḻuttu)].

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00277.

File path: DHARMA_INSPallava00277.xml.

Version: 2026-08-26 06:31 (95a9465), last modified 2026-08-26 06:31 (95a9465).

Edition

⟨1⟩ kō-vicaiya-mayēntira-
⟨2⟩ parumaṟku (ṟaṇṇu)-Āvatu ka-
⟨3⟩ ṅkaraicar-ōṭu pavvatu kaṅ-
⟨4⟩ karaicaru makkaḷ poṉ-
⟨5⟩ ṉantiyāru peru-mukai
⟨6⟩ eṟinta ñāṉṟu kaṅka-
⟨7⟩ raicaru cēvakaru Eṟintu
⟨8⟩ paṭṭāru rārāṟṟū Āṇṭa
⟨9⟩ kuṉṟa-k-kaṇṇiyār
⟨10⟩ kal

Apparatus

⟨2⟩ (ṟaṇṇu)-Āvatu • Reading difficult to make sense of. This is a year in the twenty according to CN. This is the first year according to IAR.

⟨8⟩ rārāṟṟū ⬦ rārāṟṟū CN; rārāṟṟu IP • Reading difficult to make sense of. The reading rārāṟṟu by IP is apparently a typographical error as he gives Rārāṟṟūr in his summary.

Translation

⟨1–2⟩ ¿Twenty-…? (ṟaṇṇu) ⟨year⟩ of the victorious king Mayēntiraparumaṉ.¹

⟨2–10⟩ ⟨This is⟩ the stone of Kuṉṟakkaṇṇiyār, who ruled ¿Rārāṟṟūr?, he who fell fighting/attacking, ⟨as?⟩ a servant of Kaṅkaraicar², when Poṉṉantiyār attacked Perumukai along with Kaṅkaraicar … (pavvatu) and the people of Kaṅkaraicar.

Commentary

Kaṅkaraicar: rather than a proper name, a generic title?

Bibliography

Edited in Nākacāmi 1972 (CN 1971/33). Text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 277).

This digital edition by Emmanuel Francis, based on previous edition.

Primary

[CN] Nākacāmi, Irā. 1972. Ceṅkam naṭukaṟkaḷ. TNSDA publication 21. Ceṉṉai: Tamiḻnāṭu Aracu tolporuḷ Āyvuttuṟai. Item 1971/33.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Page 664, item 277.

Secondary

[IAR] IAR 1971-72. Indian Archaeology 1971-72: A Review. Edited by M. N. Deshpande. New Delhi: Archaeological Survey of India, 1975. Page 59, item 40.

Notes

1. Sanskrit Mahendravarman.
2. That is, the Gaṅga king

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