Pōntai hero-stone

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00290.

Summary: Records the death of a hero.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Version: (e8a670e), last modified (18e0138).

Edition

⟨1⟩ [ca. 6*]⟨2⟩[ca. 1*] [cē]vakaṉ narippaḷi [ca. 2*] ⟨3⟩ [ca. 1*] paṭṭā⟨4⟩ṉ kal

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1–4) [This is] the stone [of] Narippaḷi, the servant [of] , he who fell

Translation into French by Emmanuel Francis

Commentary

There are further lines missing at the beginning.

Bibliography

Edited in Nākacāmi 1972 (CN 1971/92); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 290); 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 1971/92.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Page 682, item 290.