Tāḻaiyūttu hero-stone, time of Nandivarman, year 2

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00306.

Summary: Records the death of a hero.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

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

Edition

⟨1⟩ kō-vi¿y?⟨c⟩aiya-nanti-paṉṟa⟨2⟩ṟ-araiyarkku yāṇṭu Iraṇṭ-āva⟨3⟩tu

Ūṇamiṟaiyār vēṇāṭ-iḷa-veṇ⟨4⟩maṟu-k-kōṭṭu vēṭ(ṭu)var tāḻai¡-Ū!⟨-y-ū⟩r ⟨5⟩ toṟu-k koṇ⟨6⟩ṭa ñāṉṟu tā⟨7⟩ḻai¡-Ū!⟨-y-ū⟩r-uṭaiya ⟨8⟩ vaṇṇakka kaṭai⟨9⟩yaṉār toṟu ⟨10⟩ mīṭṭu paṭ⟨11⟩ṭār

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ °paṉṟa⟨2⟩ṟ° • Probably to be emended to °paṉmar°.

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1–3) Second year of the victorious king, the king Nandivarman.

(3–11) Vaṇṇakka Kaṭaiyaṉār, lord (uṭaiya1) of Tāḻaiyūr, fell liberating (mīṭṭu) cattle when Ūṇamiṟaiyār, a hunter (vēṭṭuvar) [of] Iḷavenmaṟukkōṭṭu [in] Vēṇāṭu, seized cattle [at] Tāḷaiyūr.

Translation into French by Emmanuel Francis

Commentary

Bibliography

Edited in Nākacāmi 1972 (CN 1971/74); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP 306); 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 1971/74.

[IP] Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan. Page 700, item 306.

Notes

  1. 1. Mahalingam 1988 simply translate as "of".