Teṉmuṭiyaṉūr hero-stone

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00289.

Summary: Records the death of a hero.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Version: (731357b), last modified (18e0138).

Edition

⟨1⟩ [ca. 1*] ṉu [ca. 7*] yār ⟨2⟩ kuti(rai) [ca. 3*] makka⟨3⟩ṇṇamaṭ [ca. 2*] ⟨4⟩ kutti ⟨5⟩ paṭṭāṉ ⟨6⟩ kal

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1–6) [This is] the stone [of] Kutti, he who fell (paṭṭāṉ), a relative (makkaḷ1) horse (kutirai)

Translation into French by Emmanuel Francis

Commentary

There are further lines missing at the beginning.

Bibliography

Edited in Nākacāmi 1972 (CN 1971/67); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 289).

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 1971/67.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Page 681, item 289.

Notes

  1. 1. Alternatively, "the nephew", if the lacuna is to be restored as maru-makkaḷ.