Eṭuttaṉūr hero-stone, time of Mahendravarman, year 34

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00284.

Summary: Records the death of a hero in a fight.

Hand description:

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Version: 2024-12-21 12:36 (f2f3eaa), last modified 2024-06-06 16:22 (18e0138).

⟨1⟩ kō-vicaiya⟨2⟩may¡i!⟨ē⟩ntira-parumaṟku ⟨3⟩ mu-p-pattu naṅk-āvatu

vāṇa-kō⟨4⟩-Araicaru maru-makkaḷ poṟṟokkai⟨5⟩-¡Ā!⟨yā⟩r Iḷa-makaṉ karun-tēva-k-katti ta¡ṉ⟨6⟩ ṉ!⟨ṉ⟩ erumai-p⟨7⟩-puṟattē vā⟨8⟩ṭi-p paṭṭā⟨9⟩ṉ kal

Apparatus

⟨3⟩ mu-p-pattu naṅk-āvatu • IAR reads "fifty-fourth".

⟨7⟩ vā⟨8⟩ṭi-p paṭṭā⟨9⟩ṉ ⬦ vā⟨8⟩ṭi paṭṭā⟨9⟩ṉ N.

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1–3) Tirthy-fourth [year] of the victorious king Mahendravarman¹.

(3–9) [This is] the stone [of] Karuntēvakkatti, the younger son [of] Poṟṟokkaiyār, the nephew of the royal Bāṇa king, he who fell and died (vāṭi) in the buffalo shed (erumaippuṟam²)

Translation into French by Emmanuel Francis

Commentary

See DHARMA_INSPallava00527 for the label of the dog represented on the same slab.

Bibliography

Edited in Nākacāmi 1972 (CN 1971/59); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 284.1); encoded here by Emmanuel Francis (2021), based on previous editions and the facsimile in Nagaswamy 1980.

Primary

[N] Nākacāmi, Irā. 1972. Ceṅkam naṭukaṟkaḷ. TNSDA publication 21. Ceṉṉai: Tamiḻnāṭu Aracu tolporuḷ Āyvuttuṟai. Item 1971/59.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Pages 674–675, item 284.

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.

[N] Nagaswamy, Ramachandran. 1980. Art and culture of Tamil Nadu. Delhi: Sundeep Prakashan. Plate 23.

Notes

1. May¡i!⟨e⟩ntiraparumaṉ the original Tamil.
2. See IAR 1971-72 for this meaning.

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