Kaṇṇakantal hero-stone, time of Mahendravarman (?)
Editor: Emmanuel Francis.
Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00287.
Summary: Records the death of a hero in a fight.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
Version: (e8a670e), last modified (18e0138).
Edition
[ca. 4 lost lines] ⟨5⟩ [ca. 3*] maru-mak⟨6⟩[kaḷ poṉ]ṉarampaṉā⟨7⟩[ṉār vā]ṇa-kō-Araicaru ⟨8⟩ [maru-mak]kaḷ kantaviṇṇa⟨9⟩[ṉār] [ca. 1*](ṟa)la-p-puñci-c ceṉṟa ⟨10⟩ (ñā)ṉṟu poṉṉarampaṉār cē⟨11⟩vakaṉ vaḷiya-p-pūṟār maka⟨12⟩ṉ tā⟨13⟩ḷa-c-cā⟨14⟩mi kal
Apparatus
Translation by Emmanuel Francis
(1–14) [ca. 4 lost lines] [This is] the stone [of] Tāḷaccāmi, the son [of] Vaḷiyappūṟār, the servant [of] Poṉṉarampaṉār, [he who fell] when Poṉṉarampaṉār, the nephew [of the royal Bāṇa king], went (ceṉṟu) … (*(ṟa)la-p-puñci1) ¿[against]? Kantaviṇṇaṉār, the nephew of the royal Bāṇa king.
Translation into French by Emmanuel Francis
Bibliography
Edited in Nākacāmi 1972 (CN 1971/48); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 287); 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 1971/48.
[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Page 679, item 287.
Notes
- 1. This phrase designates either the place of the fight or a complement to the action expressed by ceṉṟu (puñci, "having gathered") or both.
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