Piñcūr hero-stone, time of Danti...vikramavarman, year 7

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Current Version:  draft, 2024-04-22Z

Editor:   Emmanuel Francis.

DHARMA Identifier: INSPallava00308

Summary: Records the death of a hero.

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Classification: hero memorial

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    1[?3*kō-vi]c¡a!⟨ai⟩ya-pallava-tanti-
    2-[?2*] ṭuku-vikkirama-paṉmaṟ-
    3[ku yāṇ]ṭu Ēḻ-āvatu

    Āṭaiyāṟṟu
    4[pal-ku]ṉṟa-k-kōṭṭam nan-peru-mā-
    5puñci-
    6¡-Ū!⟨yū⟩r-uṭai-
    7ya kūta-
    8(ṉū)r pā-
    9taṉā-
    10r kāli-
    11-māṟaṉ
    12paṭṭā(r)

    Apparatus

    1 [?3*kō-vi]c¡a!⟨ai⟩ya° ◇ [5*]caya° RN
    2 °[?2*]ṭuku° ◇ °[2*]ṭuku° RN • The lacuna is probably mārpi or vi. Thus mārpiṭuku or viṭuku.
    3 [ku yāṇ]ṭu ◇ [4*]ṭu RN
    4 [pal-ku]ṉṟa° ◇ [?4*]ṉṟa° RN

    Translation by Emmanuel Francis

    1-3 Seventh year of the victorious Pallava king Nandi ... ṭukuvikramavarman. 

    4-12 Pātaṉār Kālimāṟaṉ [of] Kūtaṉūr, lord (uṭaiya↓1) [of] Nanperumāpuñciyūr [in] the Palkuṉṟakkōṭṭam in Aṭaiyāṟu↓2, fell.

    Translation into French by Emmanuel Francis

    Bibliography

    Edited in Nākacāmi 1972 (CN 1971/72); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP no. 308); 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.
    № 1971/72. [siglum RN]
    Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan.
    Page 702, № 308. [siglum IP]

    Notes

    ↑1. IP simply translate as “of”.
    ↑2. The subdivision of district (Aṭaiyāṟu) is unusually stated before the district (Palkuṉṟakōṭṭam).