Āmpūr, time of Nṛpatuṅgavikramavarman, year 26

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Current Version:  draft, 2024-04-22Z

Editor:   Emmanuel Francis.

DHARMA Identifier: INSPallava00188

Summary: Hero-stone in honour of Caṉaṉ.

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¹śrī

kō-vicaiya-⟨niru⟩-
²(pa)t¡o!⟨u⟩ṅka-vikkirama-(pa)[ru-]
³(ma)[r](k)ku yāṇṭ’ iru-patt’ ā[rāva-]
⁴tu

paṭuvūr-k-kōṭṭattu (m)ē-
⁵l-aṭaiy¿a?⟨ā⟩ṟu-nāṭṭu Āmaiyūr
⁶ mēl nuḷampaṉ paṭai-y
⁷vantu toṟu-k koḷḷa piru -
⁸ti-kaṅkaraiyar cēvakar peruna-
⁹(ka)r-akara-k koṇṭa-k kāviti Akalaṅkat-
¹⁰tuvarāyar (ma)kaṉ caṉaṉ taḷarā vīḻnt(u) paṭṭāṉ

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

¹Prosperity!!

^1-4Twenty-sixth year of the victorious king Nṛpatuṅgavikramavarman.

^4-10When the Nuḷampaṉ came [with] his army upon Āmaiyūr, in the Mēlaṭaiyārunāṭu in the Paṭuvūrkkōṭṭam, and seized cattle, Caṉaṉ, the son of Akalaṅkattuvarāyar, a kāviti of ... , a servant of Pirutikaṅkaraiyar, [fought] relentlessly (taḷarā), fell and died.

Commentary

⁹Note on kāviti.

¹⁰Note on paṭṭāṉ. H: "This word is written below the line."

Bibliography

Edited and translated in Hultzsch 1896–1897 (EI 4, no. 23A); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP no. 188); re-edited and translated here by Emmanuel Francis (2021), based on the previous editions.

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