Current Version: draft, 2024-04-22Z
Editor: Emmanuel Francis.
DHARMA Identifier: INSPallava00406
Summary: Hero-stone commemorating the death of Vīravar during a cattle-raid.
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1kō-vicaiya-ma¡cī!⟨yē⟩ntira-paru-
2maṟk’ irupa¿t?⟨tt⟩-āvatu
mīvēṇ-
3ṇāṭṭu ka-
4ṭṭai-¡Ū!⟨y-ū⟩-
5ṟ ṟoṟu
6koṇṭa ñā
7[ṉ]ṟu ciṟu¡p!⟨pp⟩āḻ ā-
8ḷum pālā-
9cirika-
10ru makaṉ
11vīrava[ru]
12kal
1–2 °paru/maṟk’ irupa¿t?⟨tt⟩-āvatu ◇ °paru/maṟ kirupatāvatu RN; °parumaṟku Irupatāvatu NMK
3–4 ka/ṭṭai-¡Ū!⟨y-ū⟩ ◇ ka/ṭṭai Ūṟ RN; ka/ṭṭai Ūr NMK
5 ṟoṟu ◇ RN; toṟu NMK •
6–7 ñā / [ṉ]ṟu ◇ RN; ñāṉṟu NMK •
11 vīrava[ru] ◇ RN; vīravaru NMK •
1-2 Twentieth year of the victorious king Mahendravarman↓1.
2-12 [This is the] stone of Vīravar↓2, the son [of] Pālācirikar, who rules (āḷum) [in] Ciṟuppāl, [who fell] at the time of seizing cattle [in] Kaṭṭaiyūr in Mīvēṇāṭu.
Pālācirikar, ruler of Ciṟuppāl = Pālāyiriyar, ruler of Ciṟuppāl (INSPallava407) = Pālāciriru, the ruler of Ciṟuppāḻ (INSPallava409).
Edited in Mārkciya Kānti 1974 (Kalveṭṭu no. 3; 5 non epigraphical lines); re-edited in Nākacāmi 1975 (no. 88; 12 epigraphical lines); text in Dayalan 2005 (3 epigraphical lines, by mistake).
Encoded and translated here for DHARMA (ERC n° 809994) by Emmanuel Francis (2022), based on Nākacāmi 1975.