Cāttaṉūr, time of Mahendravarman, year 39

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00286.

Summary: Hero-stone inscription commemorating the death of a hero in a fight.

Hand description:

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Version: (3917d95), last modified (374637e).

Edition

⟨1⟩ kō-vicaiya-ma¡cī!⟨yē⟩ntira-paru⟨2⟩maṟku mu-p-patt’ oṉpat-āvatu

⟨3⟩ vāṇa-kō-¡A!⟨v-a⟩raicaru maru-makkaḷ po⟨4⟩ṟṟokkaiyār carukkirunta-Ūr pō⟨5⟩ntai mēṟ cakkaravaru paṭai vanta ñā⟨6⟩ṉṟu nākkaiyār iḷa-makaṉ vattāva⟨7⟩ṉ makaṉ ṉan⟨8⟩(ti Eṟi)ntu paṭṭā⟨9⟩ṉ kal

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1–2) Tirthy-ninth [year] of the victorious king Macīntiraparumaṉ.1

(3–9) [This is] the stone [of] Nandin, the son of Vattāvaṉ ¿[and]? ¿the younger son? (iḷa-makaṉ) of Nākkaiyār, he who fell fighting (eṟintu) when Poṟṟokkaiyār ¿[and]? ¿the people? (maru-makkaḷ) [of] the royal Bāṇa king marched (vanta2) ¿[with]? the army [of] Cakkaravar upon Pōntai ¿[in] carukk-irunta-Ūr?.

Commentary

Poṟṟokkaiyār is mentioned in another inscription.

Bibliography

Edited in Nākacāmi 1972 (CN 1971/35). Text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 286).

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 1971/35.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Page 678, item 286.

Notes

  1. 1. Sanskrit Mahendravarman.
  2. 2. Literally “went”.