Current Version: draft, 2024-04-22Z
Editor: Emmanuel Francis.
DHARMA Identifier: INSPallava00425
Summary: Hero-stone commemorating the death of Viṉaiyittaṉ and donation in honour of the deceased hero.
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The puḷḷi is used.
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kō-vicai⟨ya⟩-nan·ti-vikkirama-paruma-
2[ṟk]u yāṇṭu paṉ·ṉiraṇ·ṭ-āvatu
paṭuvūr-k-
3-k[ō]ṭ·ṭat·tu Aṭaiy¿a?⟨ā⟩ṟu-nāṭu vicaiyātit·ta-
4ṉ-āṉa kam·paṭikaḷ muruṅkai mēṟ paṭai vanta-
5[ñ]āṉṟu poṉ(·)ṉēṟar ka¡l!⟨ḷ⟩atti(l)uḷ· pāṉ· mu-
6[t]taraiyar marumakaṉ viṉaiy¡i!⟨ī⟩ttaṉ kutirai
7[mu]ṭṭaṉi mēl Eṟintu pattāṉ
Avaṟ·ku (v)iṇṭa-
8l paṭ-
9ṭiyum-
10cemmā-
11rp·-paṭ-
12ṭiyum
13(kuṭu)ttu
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14It’ aḻitāṉ nara [...]
1 °vicai⟨ya⟩° ◇ °vicaiya° R • The letter ya possibly added below the line.
3 Aṭaiy¿a?⟨ā⟩ṟu° ◇ Aṭaiyaṟu° R
5 ka¡l!⟨ḷ⟩atti(l)uḷ· ◇ kaḷattiluḷ R — 5 pāṉ· ◇ bāṇa(ṇa)- R • pāṉ· might be emended to pāṇa-.
7–8 (v)iṇṭa/l ◇ miṇa/l R • R however comments on miṇṭal in his introduction to his edition.
1 [Prosperity!] Fortune!
1-2 Twelfth year of the victorious king Nandivikramavarman.
2-7 Viṉaiyīttaṉ, the son-in-law [of] (Bāṇa) Muttaraiyar, fell fighting upon (mēl) ... (kutirai muṭṭaṉi) in the battlefield (kaḷam) [with] Poṉṉērar, when Kampaṭikaḷ alias Vicaiyātittaṉ↓1 marched↓2 [with his] army upon Muruṅkai, in the Ātaiyāṟunāṭu of the Paṭuvūrkkōṭṭam.
7-13 To him↓3, (having given) Viṇṭal Paṭṭi and Cemmār Paṭṭi ...
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14 He who destroys↓4 this [donation he will go to] (hell?) (nara↓5).
Edited in Rajavelu 1996 (JESI no. 20.16); text in Dayalan 2005; re-edited and translated here for DHARMA (ERC n° 809994) by Emmanuel Francis (2022), based on photographs (2009).