Vēṭartaṭṭakkal, hero-stone, time of Narasiṃavarman, no year

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00419.

Summary: Hero-stone set up in honour of a hero whose name is lost.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

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

Edition

⟨1⟩ kō-vicaiya-(na)ra-ciṅka-parumaṟki […]

⟨2⟩ takaṭū[r] [2+] [E]ṟinta ñā[ṉṟu] [3+]

[unknown number of lost lines]

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ […]S does not mark any gap in his edition (p. 223), but notes (p. 231): “The regnal year quoted in the record is not clear and hence could not be deciphered.” We suspect that the year phrase was in fact given in epigraphical line 2 and that S’s line 2 is in fact line 3.

⟨2⟩ takaṭū[r] [2+] [E]ṟinta ñā[ṉṟu] [3+]takaṭū [4+] ṟinta ñā [5+] S.

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1) [Umpteenth year] of the victorious king (Na)raciṅkaparumaṉ1.

(2) […], [who died] at the time (ñāṉṟu) of attacking (eṟinta) Takaṭūr.

Bibliography

Reported in Ramesh 1992 (ARIE/1979-1980/B/1979-1980/233).

Edited in Sampath 1980; text in Dayalan 2005.

Edited here by Emmanuel Francis (2022) based 0n Sampath 1980.

Primary

[S] Sampath, M. D. 1980. “Hero-stone inscriptions from Dharmapuri District.” In: South Indian History Congress: Proceedings of the annual conference, February 15-17, 1980, Madurai Kamaraj University. Edited by S. Manickam. Madurai: Madurai Kamaraj University, pp. 219–223. Page 223.

[D] Dayalan, D. 2005. Computer application in Indian epigraphy (Pallava period). 3 vols. New Delhi: Bharatiya Kala Prakashan. Volume 3, appendix I, page 1265, item 31.

Secondary

Ramesh, K. V. 1992. Annual report on Indian epigraphy for 1979-80. New Delhi: Archaeological Survey of India. Page 87, appendixes B/1979-1980, item 233.

Notes

  1. 1. Sanskrit Narasiṃhavarman.