Puḷiyaṉūr Hero-Stone, time of Siṃhaviṣṇu, year 2[.]

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00408.

Summary: Lacunose inscription; undoubtedly probably a hero-stone, like others inscriptions (INSPallava406, INSPallava407 and INSPallava409) found at Puḷiyaṉūr.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

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

Edition

⟨1⟩ kō-vicaiya-ciṅka-viṇṇa-parumaṟk¡i!⟨u⟩ Iru⟨2⟩[…] (vē)ṇāṭṭu […]

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ °ciṅkaviṇṇaparumaṟk¡i!⟨u⟩ SH; °ciṅ[3+]viṇṇaparumaṟku RN. — ⟨1⟩ Iru⟨2⟩[…] (vē)ṇāṭṭu […] SH; I⟨2⟩[15+]ṭṭu [7+] RN.

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1–2) Twenty-[…] [year] of the victorious king Siṁhaviṣṇuvarman1 […] in the Vēṇāṭu […]

Commentary

Bibliography

Edited in Hariharan 1974 (2 epigraphical lines); re-edited in Nākacāmi 1975 (no. 87; 2 epigraphical lines); text in Dayalan 2005 (2 epigraphical lines).

Encoded and translated here by Emmanuel Francis (2022), based on Hariharan 1974.

Primary

[SH] Hariharan, S. 1974. “Simhavishnu.” In: Seminar on hero-stones. Edited by R. Nagaswamy. Madras: State Department of Archaeology, pp. 65–71. Page 69.

[RN] 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 86, item 1972/1.

[DD] Dayalan, D. 2005. Computer application in Indian epigraphy (Pallava period). 3 vols. New Delhi: Bharatiya Kala Prakashan. Volume 3, appendix I, page 1251, item 18.

Notes

  1. 1. Ciṅkaviṇṇaparumaṉ in the original Tamil text.