Kāyampaṭṭu, hero-stone

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00469.

Summary: Hero-stone commemorating the demise of Kattaiyaṉ, son of Iṟaiyamaṉ of Tōkkaipāṭi during a cattle-raid in Tōkkaipāṭi.

Hand description:

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Version: (f2f3eaa), last modified (18e0138).

Edition

⟨1⟩ (s)(pa)śri ri

tōkkai-pāṭi ⟨2⟩ Iṟaiyamaṉ makaṉ kattaiya⟨3⟩(t)ōkkai-pāṭi toṟum ¡i!⟨ī⟩ṭṭu⟨4⟩-p-pa¿p?⟨ṭ⟩ṭāṉ

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ (s)(pa)śri ri • The word svasti is obviously intended here.

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

(1) Prosperity! Fortune!

(2–4) Kattaiyaṉ, son of Iṟaiyamaṉ of Tōkkaipāṭi, became weak (īṭṭupaṭṭān1) [during] a cattle-raid in Tōkkaipāṭi

Commentary

Probably dated to the Pallava period, on arguments based on paleography.

Bibliography

Quoted (partially) in நாகசாமி 1972.

Edited and translated here by Emmanuel Francis (2024), based on photos (EFEO, 2099).

Secondary

நாகசாமி, இரா. 1972. “நடுகள்.” In: கல்வெட்டியல்: தொல்லெழுத்தியலும், கல்வெட்டியலும். Edited by இரா. நாகசாமி. Madras: State Department of Archaeology, pp. 119–134. Page 124.

Notes

  1. 1. That is, "died".