Veppūrcekkaṭi Hero-Stone no. 1

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Current Version:  draft, 2024-04-22Z

Editor:   Emmanuel Francis.

DHARMA Identifier: INSPallava00423

Summary: Hero-stone commemorating the death of Vaṇṇakka Cāttaṉār.

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    1kō-vicaiya-naraciṅka-parumaṟk¡i!⟨u⟩ yāṇṭu
    2pattāvatu

    mīkoṉṟai-nāṭṭu pālaikōṭṭu toṟu
    3koṇṭa ñāṉṟu vāṇakō-Araicar cēvakar
    4pālaikōṭuṭaiya vaṇṇakka cāttaṉār
    5toṟu Iṭuvittu nāyavaṉōṭu paṭṭār

    Translation by Emmanuel Francis

    1-2 Tenth year of the victorious king Narasiṁhavarman↓1.

    2-5 Vaṇṇakka Cāttaṉār, landlord of Pālaikōṭu, servant of Vāṇakōvaraiyar, fell, rescuing cattle along with Nāyavaṉ, at the time of seizing cattle in Pālaikōṭu in the Mīkoṉṟaināṭu.

    Commentary

    Line beginnings not indicated by Kasinathan 1974, here after Dayalan 2005.

    Bibliography

    Edited in Kasinathan 1974; text in Dayalan 2005; encoded and translated here for DHARMA (ERC n° 809994) by Emmanuel Francis (2022), based on previous editions.

    Primary

    Kasinathan, Natana. 1974. “Hero-Stone Inscriptions of Narasimha I & II.” Seminar on hero-stones, edited by R. Nagaswamy, 33–37. Madras: State Department of Archaeology.
    Page 36, № 3. [siglum NK]
    Dayalan, D. 2005. Computer Application in Indian Epigraphy (Pallava Period). New Delhi: Bharatiya Kala Prakashan.
    Volume 3, appendix I, page 1270, № 35. [siglum DD]

    Notes

    ↑1. That is, Narasiṁhavarman II Pallava, according to Kasinathan 1974