Toṇṭamanūr, hero-stone, time of Ciṅkaviṇṇaparumaṉ, year 30
Editor: Emmanuel Francis.
Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00413.
Summary: Hero-stone commemorating the death of Poṉṉirevar.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
Version: (e8a670e), last modified (18e0138).
Edition
⟨1⟩ kō-vicaiya-ciṅ⟨2⟩ka-viṇṇa-parumaṟku muppat-āvatu
nī⟨3⟩lakaṇṭarai [5*] kal poṉṉumū⟨4⟩taṉ(ṉā) [3*] koṭiyaṉ⟨5⟩ṉūru Eṟinta (ñā)ṉṟu ⟨6⟩ kaṅkaru makkaḷ po⟨7⟩ṉṉakkaṉāru cēvaka⟨8⟩ṉ vāṇakō-¡A!⟨y-a⟩tiraicaru ⟨9⟩ makkaḷ poṉ(ṉi)revaru ⟨10⟩ Eṟintu paṭṭāṉ
Iru⟨11⟩-(p)-perum maṟaiya [2*] maka⟨12⟩ṉ putaṉ kal
Translation by Emmanuel Francis
(1–2) Thirthieth year of the victorious king Ciṅkaviṇṇaparumaṉ1
(2–10) At the time … destroyed/attacked (eṟinta) Kotiyaṉṉuṟ, Poṉṉirevar, [one among] the men of Vāṇakoyatiraicar, a servant of Poṉṉakkaṉār, [one among] the men of the Gaṅga [king], died fighting (eṟintu).
(10–12) [This is] the stone …
Bibliography
Edited in Hariharan 1974 (Āvaṇam 11, no. 7.5); text in Dayalan 2005; encoded and translated here by Emmanuel Francis (2022), based on previous edition(s).
Primary
[H] Hariharan, S. 1974. “Simhavishnu.” In: Seminar on hero-stones. Edited by R. Nagaswamy. Madras: State Department of Archaeology, pp. 65–71. Page 70.
[D] Dayalan, D. 2005. Computer application in Indian epigraphy (Pallava period). 3 vols. New Delhi: Bharatiya Kala Prakashan. Volume 3, appendix I, page 1257, item 24.
Notes
- 1. That is, Sanskrit Siṁhaviṣṇuvarman.
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Commentary
Summary in Hariharan 1974, p. 70: “The inscription bearing the 30th regnal year from Thoṇḍamānūr records the death of Ponnireveru sons of Vanako Atiraisar, a vassal under Gaṅga Ponnakkanār in a battle against Ponnumudannār sons of Nilakandarai ....... when the latter invaded Kodiyannur.”