Current Version: draft, 2024-04-22Z
Editor: Emmanuel Francis.
DHARMA Identifier: INSPallava00283
Summary: Records the death of a hero in a fight.
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Classification: hero memorial
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1kō-vi¡y!⟨c⟩aiya-mayēntira-parumaṟku
2mu-p-pattu mūṉṟ-āvatu
vānā-kō-Araicaru
3maru-makkaḷ-uṭ poṇaimaṇaiṉṉār makaṉ-
4ṉār poṉṉarampaṉār mēl Iṇṇapanta⟨r⟩ makaṉṉār kanta(vi)ṇṇaṉār vēlaṭṭu(ṇ)
5mēl-c ceṉṟ’ eṟinta ñāṉṟu
6nalla-
7ṉāy ti-
8rintu pa-
9ṭṭāṉ
10kantaviṇṇa-
11ṉār (cēvaka)-
12ṉ puta-
13ṇaṭi mak(ka)-
14ḷ [1*]
15[7*]
16[1*] taṉeta ma
17[1*] nātaṉ
18[7*]
1-3Tirthy-third [year] of the victorious king Mahendravarman↓1.
3-13[This is the stone of] ... , the honourable son [of] Putaṇaṭi [and] the servant [of] the honourable Kantaviṇṇaṉ↓2, he who fell ... (nallaṉāy tirintu ), when the honourable Kanta(vi)ṇṇaṉ, the son [of] Iṇṇapantar attacked (eṟinta) marching (ceṉṟa) upon (mēl) Vēlaṭṭu(ṇ) against (mēl) the honourable Poṉṉarampaṉ, the son [of] poṇaimaṇaiṉṉār, [one] among the nephews [of] the royal Bāṇa king.
Edited in Nākacāmi 1972 (CN 1971/64); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP no. 283); encoded here for DHARMA (ERC n° 809994) by Emmanuel Francis (2021), based on previous editions.