Eṭuttaṉūr hero-stone, time of Mahendravarman, year 34

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Current Version:  draft, 2024-04-22Z

Editor:   Emmanuel Francis.

DHARMA Identifier: INSPallava00284

Summary: Records the death of a hero in a fight.

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Classification: hero memorial

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    Edition

    1kō-vicaiya-
    2may¡i!⟨ē⟩ntira-parumaṟku
    3mu-p-pattu naṅk-āvatu

    vāṇa-kō-
    4-Araicaru maru-makkaḷ poṟṟokkai-
    5-¡Ā!⟨yā⟩r Iḷa-makaṉ karun-tēva-k-katti ta¡ṉ-
    6ṉ!    ⟨ṉ⟩ erumai-p-
    7-puṟattē vā-
    8ṭi-p paṭṭā-
    9ṉ kal

    Apparatus

    3 mu-p-pattu naṅk-āvatu • D reads "fifty-fourth".
    7–8 9 vā/ṭi-p paṭṭā/ṉ ◇ vā/ṭi paṭṭā/ṉ RN

    Translation by Emmanuel Francis

    1-3Tirthy-fourth [year] of the victorious king Mahendravarman↓1.

    3-9[This is] the stone [of] Karuntēvakkatti, the younger son [of] Poṟṟokkaiyār, the nephew of the royal Bāṇa king, he who fell and died (vāṭi) in the buffalo shed (erumaippuṟam↓2)

    Translation into French by Emmanuel Francis

    Commentary

    See DHARMA_INSPallava00527 for the label of the dog represented on the same slab.

    Bibliography

    Edited in Nākacāmi 1972 (CN 1971/59); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP no. 284.1); encoded here for DHARMA (ERC n° 809994) by Emmanuel Francis (2021), based on previous editions and the facsimile in Nagaswamy 1980.

    Primary

    Nākacāmi, Irā., ed. 1972. Ceṅkam Naṭukaṟkaḷ. TNSDA Publication 21. Ceṉṉai: Tamiḻnāṭu Aracu tolporuḷ Āyvuttuṟai.
    № 1971/59. [siglum RN]
    Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan.
    Pages 674–675, № 284. [siglum IP]

    Secondary

    Deshpande, M. N., ed. 1975. Indian Archaeology 1971-72, A Review. New Delhi: Archaeological Survey of India.
    Page 59, № 40. [siglum D]
    Nagaswamy, Ramachandran. 1980. Art and Culture of Tamil Nadu. Delhi: Sundeep Prakashan.
    Plate 23. [siglum RN]

    Notes

    ↑1. May¡i!⟨e⟩ntiraparumaṉ the original Tamil.
    ↑2. See D for this meaning.