Current Version: draft, 2024-04-22Z
Editor: Emmanuel Francis.
DHARMA Identifier: INSPallava00254
Summary: Records the death of Attimattar Murukaṉ, an inhabitant of Pākkam and servant of Valimatura, chief of Takaṭūr-nāṭu, during a cattle-raid.
Hand Description:
See Hultzsch.
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Classification: hero memorial
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Layout:
1kō-viceya-naraiciṅka-parumaṟ-
2ku yāṇṭu (mū)ṉṟāvatu viṉ-
3ṟu-nāṭṭu vaṭa-karai Āḷun taka-
44. ṭ¿u?⟨ū⟩r-nāṭar valimatura-cēvakar pā-
55. kkattu-k kuṭi Atimattar mu-
66. rukaṉ mukkuṭṭ¿u?⟨ū⟩r-t toṟu caṉma-
77. turaru koḷḷa-t toṟu mīṭṭu-p pa-
88. ṭṭār
1 °viceya° ◇ °vice(ya)° EH — 1 °naraiciṅka° ◇ °naraici(ṅ)ka° EH
4 valimatura° ◇ (va)limatura° EH — 4 pākkattu ◇ (pā)kkattu EH
7 koḷḷa-t toṟu ◇ ko(ḷ)ḷa t-(to)ṟu EH — 7 paṭṭār • The syllable ṭā is very similar to ṭu.
In the third year [of the reign] of the king, the victorious Narasiṁhavarman,—when Caṉmatura lifted cattle↓1 at Mukkuṭṭūr,↓2—Atimattar Murukaṉ, an inhabitant of (Pā)kkam [and] a servant of (Va)limatura, the chief of Takaṭūrnāṭu,↓3 who ruled over the northern bank [of the river] in Viṉṟunāṭu, having recovered the cattle, fell.
Four hero-stones were found in Kīḻmuṭṭukūr: two dated in a year of the Pallava king Narasiṁhavarman (see also tfaPallava255 ) and two dated in a year of a Cōḻa king identified as Parāntaka I. See Hultzsch 1896–1897
Hultzsch 1896–1897 (p. 360) notes: "On page 177, above, it was stated that the fourth of the Kīḻ-Muṭṭukūr slabs had been lost since 1887. The Collector of North Arcot has recently succeeded in recovering the missing slab, hidden in a ruined tunnel and broken in three pieces. It bears, in relief, a warrior in a defiant attitude, who holds a bow and some other weapon. At the top of the sculpture is a Tamil inscription, now broken in two pieces, but tolerably well preserved. (...) At my suggestion the four Kīḻ-Muṭṭukūr slabs have now been removed to the Madras Museum." The slab was indeed still exhibited in the Chennai Government Museum in 2019. The label accompanying it has been however interverted with that of another hero-stone from Viracholapuram (Vīracōḻapuram).
Note on Mukkuṭṭūr, ancient name of Muṭṭukūr.
Hultzsch 1896–1897 (p. 360, fn. 2) notes about Caṉmatura: "The donee of the other inscription of Narasiṁhavarman was a servant of the same Caṉmatura. This name represents the Sanskṛit Sanmadhura and not, as I formerly suggested (p. 178 above), Ṣāṇmātura."
Edited in Hultzsch 1896–1897 with facsimile and English translation, based on three inked estampages (EI 4, no. 52); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP n° 254); re-edited here for DHARMA (ERC n° 809994) by Emmanuel Francis (2020), based on autopsy and photographs (2019).