Current Version: draft, 2024-04-22Z
Editor: Emmanuel Francis.
DHARMA Identifier: INSPallava00294
Summary: Records the death of a hero.
Hand Description:
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Classification: hero memorial
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Corresponding Artefact:
Layout:
1kō-vicaiya-narai-
2ciṅka-parumaṟku yā-
3ṇṭ’ Ēḻ-āvatu
mēr-kōva-
4lūr mēl vāṇa-kō-mutta-
5raicar nāṭu pāviya tañ ciṟ-
6ṟappaṭikaḷ poṉmāntāṉār mēṟ
7vanta ñāṉṟu poṉmāntāṉārkkāy-p paṭṭā-
8ṉ kaṭuvantaiyār makaṉ viṟcitai kal
vāṇa-
9kō-k-kaṭa-
10mar
1-3 Seventh year of the victorious king Narasiṁhavarman↓1.
3-8 [This is] the stone [of] Viṟcitai, the son [of] Kaṭuvantaiyār, he who fell for [the sake of] Pōṉmāntāṉār (poṉmāntāṉārkku + āy), when the Bāṇa king Muttaraiyar marched (vanta↓2) against Pōṉmāntāṉār, his (tañ↓3) uncle (ciṟṟappaṭikaḷ↓4) ... (nāṭu pāviya) upon Mēṟkōvalūr.
8-10 ...
See DHARMA_INSPallava00293, from the same place and of similar content.
Mahalingam 1988: page 687, note 1 notes: "The figure of a soldier facing left is engraved on the stone. He is seen holding a bow in his left hand and a short stagger in his right hand. Very near the right leg of the figure are seen sculptured a casket."
1-2 Naraiciṅkaparumaṉ (Sanskrit Narasiṁhavarman) has been identified as the Pallava king Narasiṁhavarman I by Nākacāmi 1972.
Edited in Nākacāmi 1972 (CN 1971/68); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP no. 294); encoded and first translated here for DHARMA (ERC n° 809994) by Emmanuel Francis (2021), based on previous editions.