Katirampaṭṭi, hero-stone, time of Mahendravarman, year 7

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00400.

Summary: hero-stone commemorating the death of Ēṟaṉ.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

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

Edition

⟨1⟩ kō-vicaiya-may¿a?⟨e⟩ntira-paruma⟨2⟩ṟku Ēḻ-āvatu

kōvūr-nāṭṭu⟨3⟩-k kāri-maṅkalaṅ kaṅkati A⟨4⟩raicarōṭu ⟨5⟩ purava(r) ⟨6⟩ peṟṟāṇṭāṇ ⟨7⟩ ṭāṉ ko⟨8⟩m puḷi⟨9⟩kaṇ maka⟨10⟩ṉ Ēṟaṉ⟨11⟩toṟuk ko⟨12⟩ḷuṭ paṭ⟨13⟩ṭāṉ kal

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1–2) Seventh year of the victorious king Mahendravarman1.

(2–13) [This is] the stone of Ēṟaṉ, son of , he who died [fighthing] with2 Kaṅkati Araicar [at/of] Kārimaṅkalam in the Kōvūrnāṭu.

Commentary

Bibliography

Edited in Nākacāmi 1975; text in Dayalan 2005; encoded and translated here by Emmanuel Francis (2022), based on previous edition(s).

Primary

[IN] Nākacāmi, Irā. 1975. tarumapuri kalveṭṭukaḷ. Tamiḻnāṭu Aracu Tolporuḷ Āyvutuṟai veḷiyīṭu eṇ [TNSDA series] 37. Ceṉṉai: Tamiḻnāṭu Aracu Tolporuḷ Āyvutuṟai [Tamill Nadu State Department of Archaeology]. Item 1974/82.

[DD] Dayalan, D. 2005. Computer application in Indian epigraphy (Pallava period). 3 vols. New Delhi: Bharatiya Kala Prakashan. Volume 3, appendix I, page 1243, item 10.

Notes

  1. 1. May¿a?ntiraparumaṉ in the original Tamil text.
  2. 2. That is, at the side of or against.