Koṭṭaiyūr, time of Mahendravarman, year 33
Editor: Emmanuel Francis.
Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00282.
Summary: Hero-stone inscription commemorating the death of a hero in a fight.
Hand description:
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
Version: (a90ca73), last modified (333a4a5).
Edition
⟨1⟩ kō-vicaiya-ma⟨2⟩cīntira-parumaṟku ⟨3⟩ mu-p-pattu mūṉṟ-āvatu
⟨4⟩ vāṇa-kō-Araicaru maru-ma⟨5⟩kkaḷ poṉṉarampaṉār ⟨6⟩ mēl vāṇa-kō-Araicaru maru⟨7⟩makkaḷ kantaviṇṇaṉā⟨8⟩r vēlmaṟutti-c ceṉṟa ñā⟨9⟩ṉṟu kantaviṇṇaṉā⟨10⟩r ta¡ñ!⟨ṉ⟩ ciṟṟappaṉār po⟨11⟩ṉṉi(taṉ)ṉār Iḷa-makaṉ ⟨12⟩ poṅkiyār makaṉ kat⟨13⟩ti Eytu paṭṭāṉ kal
Translation by Emmanuel Francis
(1–3) Tirthy-third [year] of the victorious king Macīntiraparumaṉ.1
(3–13) [This is] the stone [of] the son [of] Poṅkiyār, [who was also] the younger son (iḷa-makaṉ) [of] Poṉṉi(taṉ)ṉār, the honourable paternal uncle [of] Kantaviṇṇaṉār2, he who fell hit (eytu) [by] a knife, when Kantaviṇṇaṉār, the nephew [of] the royal Bāṇa king marched (ceṉṟu3) ¿[in] Vēlmaṟutti? against (mēl4) Poṉṉarampaṉār, the nephew [of] the royal Bāṇa king.
Bibliography
Edited in Nākacāmi 1972 (CN 1971/63). Text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 282).
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 1971/63.
[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Pages 670–671, item 282.
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