Mōttakal hero-stone, time of Mahendravarman, year 32 (1/2)

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00280.

Summary: Records the death of a hero.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Version: (e8a670e), last modified (18e0138).

Edition

⟨1⟩ kō-vicaiya ma[yē]ntira-paruma(ṟku mu)⟨2⟩-p-patt’ iraṇṭ-āvatu

[4*]yai to⟨3⟩ṟu-k koṇṭa ñāṉṟu po¡ṉ!⟨ṟ⟩-mōtaṉṉā⟨4⟩r cēvakaṉ Akkantai kōṭaṉ ⟨5⟩ toṟu viṭuvittu-p paṭṭā⟨6⟩ṉ kal

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ ma[yē]ntira° ⬦ ma[2*]ntira° RN • Cf. DHARMA_INSPallava00280, same findspot, king, and year.

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1–2) Tirthy-second [year] of the victorious king Mahendravarman1.

(2–6) [This is] the stone [of] Akkantai Kōṭaṉ, the servant of Poṟmōtaṉṉār2, he who fell recapturing (viṭuvittu3) cattle when (yai) seized cattle.

Translation into French by Emmanuel Francis

Commentary

Bibliography

Edited in Nākacāmi 1972 (CN 1971/88); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 280); 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 1971/88.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Page 668, item 280.

Notes

  1. 1. Ma[yē]ntiraparumaṉ in the original Tamil.
  2. 2. Cf. Poṟmōtaṉār in DHARMA_INSPallava00281, same findspot, king, and year.
  3. 3. Literally "liberating".