Veppūrcekkaṭi Hero-Stone no. 2

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00424.

Summary: Hero-stone commemorating the death of Tācamāriyār.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Version: (7dfaa44), last modified (18e0138).

Edition

⟨1⟩ kō-vicaiya-naraciṅkaparumaṟk¡i!⟨u⟩ yāṇṭu pattāvatu

⟨2⟩ mīkoṉṟai-nāṭṭu pālaikōṭṭut toṟuk koṇṭa ñāṉṟu ⟨3⟩ toṟu Ituvittu tācamāriyār ⟨4⟩ paṭṭār

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1) Tenth year of the victorious king Narasiṁhavarman1.

(2–4) Tācamāriyār fell, rescuing cattle, at the time of seizing the cattle at Pālaikōṭu in the Mīkoṉṟaināṭu.

Commentary

Line beginnings not indicated by Kasinathan 1974, here after Dayalan 2005.

Bibliography

Edited in Kasinathan 1974; text in Dayalan 2005; encoded and translated here by Emmanuel Francis (2022), based on previous editions.

Primary

[NK] Kasinathan, Natana. 1974. “Hero-stone inscriptions of Narasimha I & II.” In: Seminar on hero-stones. Edited by R. Nagaswamy. Madras: State Department of Archaeology, pp. 33–37. Page 36, item 2.

[DD] Dayalan, D. 2005. Computer application in Indian epigraphy (Pallava period). 3 vols. New Delhi: Bharatiya Kala Prakashan. Volume 3, appendix I, page 1271, item 36.

Notes

  1. 1. That is, Narasiṁhavarman II Pallava, according to Kasinathan 1974