Kaṭalāṭi, hero-stone, time of Māntaparumāṉ, year 11

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00291.

Summary: Records the death of a hero.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

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

Edition

⟨1⟩ mānta-parumaṟku-p patiṉ-o⟨2⟩ṉṟ-āvatu

koṅkaṇi-¡A!⟨y-a⟩raicaru ⟨3⟩ paṭai-¡O!⟨y-o⟩ṭu ciri-kaṅkaraicaru ⟨4⟩ caṅka-ma(ṅ)kalatt’ eṟinta ñā⟨5⟩ṉṟu ciri-kaṅkaraicaru cēvaka⟨6⟩ru vicaiya-koṟṟa⟨7⟩ṭaiyā(ru) Eṟin⟨8⟩tu paṭ⟨9⟩ṭa kal

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1–2) Eleventh year of Māntaparumaṉ.

(2–9) [This is the] stone [erected when] the victorious (vicaiya) Koṟṟaṭaiyā(ru), the servant of the glorious (ciri1) Kaṅkaraicaru2 attacked (eṟintu3) and died, when (ñāṉṟu) the glorious Kaṅkaraicaru made an attack (eṟinta) in Caṅkama(ṅ)kalam along with the army (paṭai-y-oṭu) of Koṅkaṇi-Araicaru.4

Bibliography

Reported in IAR 1971-72.

Edited in Nākacāmi 1972 (CN 1971/124); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 291).

Encoded here by Emmanuel Francis (2024), based on Nākacāmi 1972.

Primary

[N] Nākacāmi, Irā. 1972. Ceṅkam naṭukaṟkaḷ. TNSDA publication 21. Ceṉṉai: Tamiḻnāṭu Aracu tolporuḷ Āyvuttuṟai. Item 1971/124.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Page TBC, item 291.

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 39.

Notes

  1. 1. Sanskrit śrī.
  2. 2. That is, Kaṅkaraiyar.
  3. 3. Litteraly, "having attacked."
  4. 4. That is, Koṅkaṇiyaraiyar.