Toraippāṭi hero-stone, time of Narasiṁhavarman, year 12

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00303.

Summary: Records the death of a hero.

Hand description:

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Version: (f2f3eaa), last modified (18e0138).

Edition

⟨1⟩ kō-vi¿y?⟨c⟩ai¿A?⟨ya⟩-naraciṅka-parumaṟku yāṇṭu (paṉ)⟨2⟩ṉiraṇṭ-āvatu

koṅkaṇi Araicar makaṉ vā[ca. 1*]⟨3⟩ccaṉ mēṟ ceṉṟu ciri-kaṅkaraicar ce[ca. 1*]⟨4⟩vōr Erinta ñāṉṟu paṭṭār ciri-kaṅkaraicar cēva⟨5⟩kar koṟṟaviṇaṟṟa kuṉṟāṉaṟ kal

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1–2) Twelfth year of the victorious king Narasiṁhavarman.

(3–5) [This is] the stone [of] Koṟṟaviṇaṟṟa Kuṉṟāṉaṟ, the servant [of] the glorious Gaṅga king, he who fell when the glorious Gaṅga king attacked (cevōr) marching upon Vāccaṉ, the son [of] the Koṅkaṇi king.

Translation into French by Emmanuel Francis

Commentary

Bibliography

Edited in Nākacāmi 1972 (CN 1971/34); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 303); 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 1971/34.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Page 696, item 303.