Veppūrcekkaṭi Hero-Stone no. 2

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Current Version:  draft, 2024-04-22Z

Editor:   Emmanuel Francis.

DHARMA Identifier: INSPallava00424

Summary: Hero-stone commemorating the death of Tācamāriyār.

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    1kō-vicaiya-naraciṅkaparumaṟk¡i!⟨u⟩ yāṇṭu pattāvatu


    2mīkoṉṟai-nāṭṭu pālaikōṭṭut toṟuk koṇṭa ñāṉṟu
    3toṟu Ituvittu tācamāriyār
    4paṭṭār

    Translation by Emmanuel Francis

    1 Tenth year of the victorious king Narasiṁhavarman↓1.

    2-4 Tācamāriyār fell, rescuing cattle, at the time of seizing the cattle at 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, № 2. [siglum NK]
    Dayalan, D. 2005. Computer Application in Indian Epigraphy (Pallava Period). New Delhi: Bharatiya Kala Prakashan.
    Volume 3, appendix I, page 1271, № 36. [siglum DD]

    Notes

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