Kīraicāttu Hero-Stone, time of Nandīśvaravarman, year 37

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00426.

Summary: Hero-stone commemorating the death of Vakkaṭi.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

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

Edition

⟨1⟩ kō-vicaiya-nanti¡c!⟨cc⟩ura-parumaṟk⟨2⟩ku yāṇṭu muppattēḻā⟨3⟩vatu

vaḷḷipēṭu-nāṭuṭaiya vik⟨4⟩kiramāttiya nāṭu mārikappā⟨5⟩kiḻār makaṉ vakkaṭi paṭṭāṉ

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1–3) Tirthy-seventh year of the victorious king Nandīśvaravarman.

(3–5) Vakkaṭi, son [of] Mārikappākiḻar1 [in/of] the nāṭu of Vikramāditya, lord of Vaḷḷipēṭunātu, fell.

Commentary

Bibliography

Edited in No name 1991–2019 (Āvaṇam 7, no. 3); text in Dayalan 2005; encoded and translated here by Emmanuel Francis (2022), based on previous editions.

Primary

[Āvaṇam] No name. 1991–2019. Āvaṇam. 30 vols. Tanjore: Archaeological Society. Volume 7 (1997), item 3.

[DD] Dayalan, D. 2005. Computer application in Indian epigraphy (Pallava period). 3 vols. New Delhi: Bharatiya Kala Prakashan. Volume 3, appendix I, page 1275, item 40.

Secondary

Sampath, M. D. 2001. Annual report on Indian epigraphy for 1994-95. New Delhi: Archaeological Survey of India. Page 64, appendixes B/1994-95, item 194.

Notes

  1. 1. Mārikappāvakiḻār in No name 1991–2019 introduction to the inscription.