Kāṇāṅkāṭu, hero-stone, time of Indravarman, year 15

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00431.

Summary: Hero-stone commemorating the death of Ātaṉ.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

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

Edition

⟨1⟩ kō-vicaiya-v-inti⟨2⟩ramarumakaṉki pati⟨3⟩¿ṇ?⟨ṉ⟩ aintāvatu

⟨4⟩ mī-koṉ⟨5⟩ṟai-nāṭṭ’ a⟨6⟩raicarai⟨7⟩-¡yy!⟨y⟩ ōṭi⟨8⟩ṉa pūca¡l⟨9⟩l!⟨l⟩il paṭṭāṉ ⟨10⟩ mēlūr Ātaṉ

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ °vinti⟨2⟩ramarumakaṉki ⬦ vinti⟨2⟩ramarumakaṉki Vvinti⟨2⟩raparumarkku or vinti⟨2⟩raparumaṟku is expected here.

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1–3) Fifteenth [year] of the victorious king Indravarman.

(4–10) Ātaṉ of Mēlūr [is] he who died in a battle (pūcal) which occurred (ōṭiṉa) with the king (aracarai1) of Mīkoṉṟaināṭu.

Commentary

The Indravarman of the regnal year is probably one among the Pallava kings named Mahendravarman.

Bibliography

Edited in Vīrarākavaṉ and Vīrarākavaṉ 1996 (Āvaṇam 7, no. 10.1), with an estampage; text in Dayalan 2005; encoded and translated here by Emmanuel Francis (2022), based on previous edition(s).

Primary

[V] Vīrarākavaṉ, Ci. and Maṅkaiyarkkaraci Vīrarākavaṉ. 1996. “viḻuppuram irāmacāmi paṭaiyāṭciyār māvaṭṭattil cila putiya kalveṭṭukkaḷ (1).” Āvaṇam 7, pp. 25–28. Item 10.1.

[D] Dayalan, D. 2005. Computer application in Indian epigraphy (Pallava period). 3 vols. New Delhi: Bharatiya Kala Prakashan. Volume 3, appendix I, page 1281, item 46.

Notes

  1. 1. Note the accusative, governed by ōṭiṉa.