Maṇikkal hero-stone, time of ...varman, year 6

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00305.

Summary: Records the death of a hero.

Hand description:

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

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

Edition

⟨1⟩ [svasti] śrī

kō-vicaiya-[ca. 3*]-[pa]⟨2⟩rumaṟku yāṇṭ’ āṟ-āvatu

[ca. 4*]⟨3⟩ṟṟu mēl-vēṇāṭu ṇamī[ca. 4*]⟨4⟩-k (koṟṟōṟuri) kantavāṇaraica[r][ca. 2*]⟨5⟩[ca. 7*] to [ca. 4*]

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1) [Prosperity!] Fortune!

(1–2) Sixth year of the glorious king varman.

(2–3) Mēlvēṇāṭu Kantavāṇaraicar

Translation into French by Emmanuel Francis

Commentary

Bibliography

Edited in Nākacāmi 1972 (CN 1971/120); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 305); 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 1971/120.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Page 699, item 305.