Taṇṭampaṭṭu, time of Mahendravarman, year 18

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis (emfr).

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

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

Language: Tamil (tam).

Version: 2025-09-18 23:34 (014a5cb), last modified 2025-07-31 15:01 (2da3877).

Edition

⟨1⟩ kō-vicaiya-mayīntira-paru-
⟨2⟩ maṟku patiṉ Eṭṭ-āvatu mī-
⟨3⟩ -vēṇāṭṭu Āntai-pāṭi Īcai
⟨4⟩ perum-pāṇaraicaru maru-makkaḷ
⟨5⟩ poṟ-cēntiyāñ cēvakaru toṟu-
⟨6⟩ -k-koṇṭa ñāṉṟu mīṭṭu paṭṭā-
⟨7⟩ ṉ (vē)ṇāṭ(ṭu) nanti-
⟨8⟩ (yār) kal ka[**]

Apparatus

⟨8⟩ ka[2+] • IP suggests these are to be read in continuation with line 7.

Translation

⟨1–2⟩ Seventeenth [year] of the victorious king Mayīntiraparumaṉ.¹

⟨2–8⟩ [This is] the stone [of] Nantiyār of Vēṇāṭu, he who fell rescuing (mīṭṭu) [cattle] when the servant of Poṟcēntiyāṉ, the nephew of Īcai Perumpāṇaraicar [of] Āntaipāṭi in Mīvēṇāṭu, seized cattle.

Bibliography

Edited in Nākacāmi 1972 (CN 1971/77). Text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 279).

This digital edition by Emmanuel Francis, based on previous edition(s).

Primary

[CN] Nākacāmi, Irā. 1972. Ceṅkam naṭukaṟkaḷ. TNSDA publication 21. Ceṉṉai: Tamiḻnāṭu Aracu tolporuḷ Āyvuttuṟai. Item 1971/77.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Page 667, item 279.

Notes

1. Sanskrit Mahendravarman.

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