Tā-Veḷūr, hero-stone, time of Kampavarman, year 8

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Current Version:  draft, 2024-04-22Z

Editor:   Emmanuel Francis.

DHARMA Identifier: INSPallava00202

Summary: Hero-stone commemorating the death of Kāḷamaṉ.

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    1svasti śrī

    kō-vicaiya-kampaparumaṟku yāṇṭ’ eṭṭ-āvatu


    2vayiramēka-vāṇa-kō-v-araiyar āḷat
    3takaṭūr-nāṭṭu-p pākāṟṟūr-k katava-mātēvaṉ makaṉ kāḷama(ṉ)
    4mīykoṉṟai-nāṭṭu mēlvēḷūr Iruntu-vāḻā-ninra kālattu
    5muruṅkai-cēri nattata [3*] ṉṟamaiyaṉār makaḷai-k-
    6kaḷḷar piṭik [1*] ttūran [1*] koṇṭey(ya) [1*]
    7Avaḷai viṭuvittu-t tāṉ paṭṭāṉ kāḷamaṉ

    Apparatus

    2 āḷat ◇ āḷt K; āḷat IP

    Translation by Emmanuel Francis

    1 Prosperity! Fortune!

    1 Eight year of the victorious king Kampavarman. 

    2-7 ...

    Bibliography

    Edited in Kācinaṭaṉ and Tāmōtaraṉ 1980 (SII 12, no. 99); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP no. 202); encoded and first translated here for DHARMA (ERC n° 809994) by Emmanuel Francis (2022), based on previous editions.

    Primary

    Kācinaṭaṉ, Naṭaṉa. & Ku. Tāmōtaraṉ. 1980. kaḷveṭṭu: ōr aṟimukam. Madras: TNDSA.
    Page 84, № 18. [siglum K]
    Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan.
    Page 539, № 202. [siglum IP]

    Secondary

    ARIE 1933-1934. Page 12, appendix B/1933–34, № 68.