Cāttaṉūr hero-stone, time of Narasiṁhavarman, year 11

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Current Version:  draft, 2024-04-22Z

Editor:   Emmanuel Francis.

DHARMA Identifier: INSPallava00295

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

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Classification: hero memorial

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    1kō-vicaiya-naraciṅ-
    2ka-parumaṟku patiṉ oṉ-
    3r-āvatu

    mēṟ-kōvalūr-nāṭṭu Aḷa-
    4¡I!⟨vi⟩ṟpāṭi kaṭipakaiyār toṟu koṇṭa (ñā)-
    5ṉṟu ceṉṟu toṟu Iṭuvittu paṭṭāru Uṇaṅka-
    6yār makaṉār kōttaiyār cēvakaṉ Ārōkavaṇka-
    7r makkaḷ
    8kaṇimāta-
    9ṉār kal

    Translation by Emmanuel Francis

    1-3 Eleventh [year] of the victorious king Narasiṁhavarman↓1.

    3-9 [This is] the stone [of] Kaṇimātaṉār, the relative (makkaḷ↓2) [of] Ārōkavaṇkar, [who was] the servant [of] Kōttaiyār, [who was] the son of Uṇaṅkayār, he who fell rescuing (iṭuviṭṭu) cattle, when he went (ceṉṟu) at the time Kaṭipakaiyār [of] Aḷaviṟpāṭi in Mēṟ-Kōvalūr-nātu seized cattle.

    Translation into French by Emmanuel Francis

    Commentary

    Mahalingam 1988: page 688, note 1 notes: "The figure of a soldier facing left is engraved on the stone. It holds a spear in its left hand and a short sword in its right hand."

    1-2 Naraciṅkaparumaṉ (Sanskrit Narasiṁhavarman) has been tentatively identified as Narasiṁhavarman I by Nākacāmi 1972.

    Bibliography

    Edited in Nākacāmi 1972 (CN 1971/36); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP no. 295); 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.
    № 1971/36. [siglum RN]
    Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan.
    Page 688, № 295. [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. Naraciṅkaparumaṉ in the original Tamil.
    ↑2. “servant (soldier?)” according to Mahalingam 1988.