Periya Kōḷappāṭi, hero-stone, time of Mahendravarman, year 11

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00296.

Summary: Records the death of a hero.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

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

Edition

⟨1⟩ kō-vi¡y!⟨c⟩aiya-mayēntira-parumaṟku ⟨2⟩ yāṇṭu patiṉ-oṉr-āvatu

kīḻ-vēṇāṭ⟨3⟩ṭu-t tuṭari mēl vilakkumiṟai ⟨4⟩ yār vanta ñāṉṟu perum-pō ⟨5⟩ ttaraiyar maru-makkaḷ Amkō ⟨6⟩ ṭṭaiyār cēvakaṉ cākkai pa ⟨7⟩ ṟaiyaṉār Iḷa-makaṉ Ēṟaṉ ⟨8⟩ Eṟintu paṭṭāṉ

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1–2) Eleventh year the victorious king Mayēntiraparumaṉ.1

(2–8) Ēṟaṉ, the younger son (iḷa-makaṉ) of Cākkai Paraiyaṉār, the servant of Amkōṭṭaiyār, the nephew (maru-makkaḷ) of Perumpōttaraiyar, attacked (eṟintu2) and died, when Vilakkumiṟaiyar marched upon [the village of] Tuṭari in Kīḻvēṇāṭu.

Bibliography

Edited in Nākacāmi 1972 (CN 1971/96); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 296).

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 1971/96.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Page TBC, item 296.

Notes

  1. 1. Sanskrit Mahendravarman.
  2. 2. Litteraly, "having attacked."