Current Version: draft, 2024-04-22Z
Editor: Emmanuel Francis.
DHARMA Identifier: INSPallava00277
Summary: Records the death of a hero.
Hand Description:
Note the epenthetic u for r at the end of words.
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Classification: hero memorial
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Corresponding Artefact:
Layout:
1kō-vicaiya-mayēntira-
2parumaṟku (ṟaṇṇu)-Āvatu
ka-
3ṅkaraicar-ōṭu pavvatu kaṅ-
4karaicaru makkaḷ poṉ-
5ṉantiyāru peru-mukai
6eṟinta ñāṉṟu kaṅka-
7raicaru cēvakaru Eṟintu
8paṭṭāru rārāṟṟū Āṇṭa
9kuṉṟa-k-kaṇṇiyār
10kal
2 (ṟaṇṇu)-Āvatu • Reading difficult to make sense of. This is a year in the twenty according to RN. This is the first year according to D.
8 rārāṟṟū ◇ rārāṟṟū RN; rārāṟṟu IP • Reading difficult to make sense of. The reading rārāṟṟu by IP is apparently a typographical error as he gives Rārāṟṟūr in his summary.
1-2 ¿Twenty- ... ? (ṟaṇṇu) [year] of the victorious king Mahendravarman↓1.
2-10 [This is] the stone of Kuṉṟakkaṇṇiyār, who ruled ¿Rārāṟṟūr?, he who fell fighting/attacking, [as] a servant of Kaṅkaraicar↓2, when Poṉṉantiyār attacked Perumukai along with Kaṅkaraicar ... (pavvatu) and the people of Kaṅkaraicar.
Kaṅkaraicar: rather than a proper name, a generic title?
Edited in Nākacāmi 1972 (CN 1971/33); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP no. 277); encoded here for DHARMA (ERC n° 809994) by Emmanuel Francis (2021), based on previous edition.