Current Version: draft, 2024-04-22Z
Editor: Emmanuel Francis.
DHARMA Identifier: INSPallava00293
Summary: Records the death of a hero.
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Classification: hero memorial
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Layout:
1kō-vicaiya-narai-
2ciṅka-parumaṟku yā-
3ṇṭ’ Eḻ-āvatu
vāṇa-kō-mut-
4taraicaru nāṭu pāviya mēṟ-kō-
5valūr mēl vantu tañ ciṟṟa-p-
6-paṭikaḷai Eṟinta ñāṉ-
7ṟu paṭṭāṉ cēvarpari Aṭṭuṅ koḷ-
8ḷi turumā-
9vaṉār maka-
10ṉ mārkaṭa-
11laṉ
1-3 Seventh year of the victorious king Narasiṁhavarman↓1.
3-11 [This is] the stone [of] Mārkaṭalaṉ, the son [of] Turumāvaṉār ... (cēvarpari Aṭṭuṅ koḷḷi), he who fell at the time the royal Bāṇa Muttaraiyar attacked (eṟinta↓2) his (tañ↓3) uncle (ciṟṟappaṭikaḷ↓4), when marching (vantu↓5) upon Mēṟ-Kōvalūr ... (nāṭu pāviya).
See DHARMA_INSPallava00294, from the same place and of similar content.
Mahalingam 1988: page 685, note 1 notes: "The figure of a soldier facing left is engraved on the stone. It bears a bow in the left hand and a short stagger in the right hand. There is a festoon over the right hand. To the right of the figure is seen a casket, mirror while on the side of the left leg is seen a spout."
The inscription is described as follows in Deshpande 1975: "An inscription from Tandrampattu, in characters of about the eighth century A.D. and dated in the seventh year of the reign of Narasimhavarman, records the death of Marudakalan, son of Eruma[nda]nar while Merkovalur was auacked by Vanako-Puttaraisar."
1-2 Naraiciṅkaparumaṉ (Sanskrit Narasiṁhavarman) has been identified as the Pallava king Narasiṁhavarman I by Nākacāmi 1972.
Edited in Nākacāmi 1972 (CN 1971/69); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP no. 293); encoded and first translated here for DHARMA (ERC n° 809994) by Emmanuel Francis (2021), based on previous editions.