Toṇṭamanūr, hero-stone, time of Ciṅkaviṇṇaparumaṉ, year 30

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Current Version:  draft, 2024-04-22Z

Editor:   Emmanuel Francis.

DHARMA Identifier: INSPallava00413

Summary: Hero-stone commemorating the death of Poṉṉirevar.

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    1kō-vicaiya-ciṅ-
    2ka-viṇṇa-parumaṟku muppat-āvatu

    nī-
    3lakaṇṭarai [5*] kal poṉṉumū-
    4taṉ(ṉā) [3*] koṭiyaṉ-
    5ṉūru Eṟinta (ñā)ṉṟu
    6kaṅkaru makkaḷ po-
    7ṉṉakkaṉāru cēvaka-
    8ṉ vāṇakō-¡A!⟨y-a⟩tiraicaru
    9makkaḷ poṉ(ṉi)revaru
    10Eṟintu paṭṭāṉ

    Iru-
    11-(p)-perum maṟaiya [2*] maka-
    12ṉ putaṉ kal

    Translation by Emmanuel Francis

    1-2 Thirthieth year of the victorious king Ciṅkaviṇṇaparumaṉ↓1

    2-10 At the time ... destroyed/attacked (eṟinta) Kotiyaṉṉuṟ, Poṉṉirevar, [one among] the men of Vāṇakoyatiraicar, a servant of Poṉṉakkaṉār, [one among] the men of the Gaṅga [king], died fighting (eṟintu).

    10-12 [This is] the stone ...

    Commentary

    Summary in Hariharan 1974: page 70: "The inscription bearing the 30th regnal year from Thoṇḍamānūr records the death of Ponnireveru sons of Vanako Atiraisar, a vassal under Gaṅga Ponnakkanār in a battle against Ponnumudannār sons of Nilakandarai ....... when the latter invaded Kodiyannur."

    Bibliography

    Edited in Hariharan 1974 (Āvaṇam 11, no. 7.5); text in Dayalan 2005; encoded and translated here for DHARMA (ERC n° 809994) by Emmanuel Francis (2022), based on previous edition(s).

    Primary

    Hariharan, S. 1974. “Simhavishnu.” Seminar on hero-stones, edited by R. Nagaswamy, 65–71. Madras: State Department of Archaeology.
    Page 70. [siglum H]
    Dayalan, D. 2005. Computer Application in Indian Epigraphy (Pallava Period). New Delhi: Bharatiya Kala Prakashan.
    Volume 3, appendix I, page 1257, № 24. [siglum D]

    Notes

    ↑1. That is, Sanskrit Siṁhaviṣṇuvarman.