Taṇṭampaṭṭu hero-stone, time of Mahendravarman, year 18

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Current Version:  draft, 2024-04-22Z

Editor:   Emmanuel Francis.

DHARMA Identifier: INSPallava00279

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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    Edition

    1kō-vicaiya-mayīntira-paru-
    2maṟku patiṉ Eṭṭ-āvatu

    mī-
    3-vēṇāṭṭu Āntai-pāṭi Īcai
    4perum-pāṇaraicaru maru-makkaḷ
    5poṟ-cēntiyāñ cēvakaru toṟu-
    6-k-koṇṭa ñāṉṟu mīṭṭu paṭṭā-
    7ṉ (vē)ṇāṭ(ṭu) nanti-
    8(yār) kal ka[2*]

    Apparatus

    8 ka[2*] • IP suggests these are to be read in continuation with line 7.

    Translation by Emmanuel Francis

    1-2Seventeenth [year] of the victorious king Mahendravarman↓1.

    2-8[This is] the stone [of] Nantiyār of Vēṇāṭu, he who fell rescuing (mīṭṭu) [cattle] when the servant of Poṟcēntiyāṉ, the nephew of Īcai Perumpāṇaraicar [of] Āntaipāṭi in Mīvēṇāṭu, seized cattle.

    Translation into French by Emmanuel Francis

    Bibliography

    Edited in Nākacāmi 1972 (CN 1971/77); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP no. 279); encoded here for DHARMA (ERC n° 809994) by Emmanuel Francis (2021), based on previous editions.

    Primary

    Nākacāmi, Irā., ed. 1972. Ceṅkam Naṭukaṟkaḷ. TNSDA Publication 21. Ceṉṉai: Tamiḻnāṭu Aracu tolporuḷ Āyvuttuṟai.
    № 1971/77. [siglum RN]
    Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan.
    Page 667, № 279. [siglum IP]

    Notes

    ↑1. Mayīntiraparumaṉ in the original Tamil.