Karuṅkālippāṭipaṭṭi hero-stone, time of Mahendravarman, year 14

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00278.

Summary: Records the death of a hero.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

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

Edition

⟨1⟩ kō-vicaiya-macīntira⟨2⟩{m}-parumaṟku patiṉ ¡ṉ!⟨n⟩āṉ⟨3⟩k-āvatu

⟨4⟩-vēṇṇā⟨5⟩ṭtu karuṅ⟨6⟩-kāli-pāṭi ⟨7⟩ Āḷ koṟṟa⟨8⟩vāciṟ karucā⟨9⟩ttaṉāru maka⟨10⟩ṉ kaṭṭaṅka⟨11⟩ṉṉāru p(o)⟨12⟩-kāṭāṉṉāru cē⟨13⟩vakaru naripaḷ⟨14⟩ḷi vīra-vāṇṇa⟨15⟩raiyaru makkaḷ ⟨16⟩ po¡ṉ!⟨ṟ⟩-pāṉaṉ⟨17⟩ṉār-ōṭ’ eṟintu ⟨18⟩ paṭṭāru kal

Apparatus

⟨11⟩ p(o)ṟ° • Only the kāl of o is unclear.

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1–3) Fourteenth [year] of the victorious king Mahendravarman1.

(3–18) [This is] the stone [of] Kaṭṭaṅkaṉṉār ― the son of Koṟṟavāciṟ2 Karucāttaṉār, who rules over Karuṅkālipāṭi in Mīvēṇāṭu3 ―, he who fell (paṭṭār) fighting (eṟintu) with Poṟpāṉaṉṉār, one of the people / the son (makkaḷ) of Naripaḷḷi Vīravāṇṇaraiyar, the servant of Poṟkāṭāṉṉār4.5

Translation into French by Emmanuel Francis

Commentary

Bibliography

Edited in Nākacāmi 1972 (CN 1971/113); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 278); encoded here by Emmanuel Francis (2021), based on previous editions.

Primary

[RN] Nākacāmi, Irā. 1972. Ceṅkam naṭukaṟkaḷ. TNSDA publication 21. Ceṉṉai: Tamiḻnāṭu Aracu tolporuḷ Āyvuttuṟai. Item 1971/113.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Pages 665–666, item 278.

Notes

  1. 1. Macīntiraparumaṉ in the original Tamil.
  2. 2. Probably a placename.
  3. 3. That is, Mēlvēnāṭu according to Mahalingam 1988.
  4. 4. It is not clear who is the servant of Poṟkāṭāṉṉār: Poṟpāṉaṉṉār, following Mahalingam 1988 and according to the names similarity, or Naripaḷḷi Vīravāṇṇaraiyar, according to straightforward syntax?
  5. 5. Alternative translation: "Kaṭṭaṅkaṉṉār fell. [This is his] stone.