Ceṉṉivāyakkāl, hero-stone, time of Nantippōtairayaṉ, year 21

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Current Version:  draft, 2024-04-22Z

Editor:   Emmanuel Francis.

DHARMA Identifier: INSPallava00141

Summary: Hero-stone commemorating the death of a Brahmin during a raid on a maṭha.

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    1svasti śrī

    teḷ-
    2ḷāṟṟ’ eṟintu
    3rājya(mu)ṅ ko-
    4ṇṭa nanti-p-
    5-pōttaraiyar⟨k⟩-
    6ku yāṇṭu Iru-
    7patt-oṉṟ-āvatu


    8parāntakapurat-
    9tu Aṟinti-
    10kai-Īśvaragṛ-
    11haṁ śāsana-
    12t=tāl uṭaiyo-
    13rum [4+]
    14[4+] taḷi-
    15yilāt’ āki niṉṟa bhaṭṭar-ēṉ māvali-y-ani-
    16yasthānam-āḷvāṉ cē(vaṇaṟ kuṇṭu) ko-
    17ṇṭu vantu maṭamuñ cuṭṭu-k kātta ś¿i?⟨rī⟩-gura-
    18varaiyum eṟintu Ivar śiṣyan Oru brā-
    19hmaṇaṉ cattimuṟṟa-t-tēvan ṟuṇṭu pa-
    20ṭṭāṉ valluva-(ṉāṭ)ṭāṉ

    Translation by Emmanuel Francis

    1 Prosperity! Fortune!

    2-7 Twenty-first year of Nantippōttaraiyar who destroyed Teḷḷāṟu and took the kingdom/assumed sovereignty.

    8-20

    Commentary

    This appears to be a later copy of an original of the 9th century, as indicated by Cōḻa-period placenames (updated to the time of the copy).

    Bibliography

    Edited in Venkatasubba Ayyar 1943 (SII 12, no. 56); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP no. 141); encoded here for DHARMA (ERC n° 809994) and translated for the first time by Emmanuel Francis, based on previous editions.

    Primary

    Venkatasubba Ayyar, V. 1943. South Indian Inscriptions. Volume XII: The Pallavas (with Introductory Notes in English). South Indian Inscriptions 12. Madras: Government Press.
    Page 23, № 56. [siglum VVA]
    Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan.
    Pages 415–416, № 141. [siglum IP]