Ālaṅkuppam hero-stone

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Current Version:  draft, 2024-04-22Z

Editor:   Emmanuel Francis.

DHARMA Identifier: INSPallava00435

Summary: Hero-stone erected in honour of Cattima Vakilavaṉ Vīraiyar.

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Early Tamil script.

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    01śrī


    1kō-vi⟨cai⟩ya-danti-vikk(i)rama-paru-
    2ma(r)kku yāṇṭu patiṉ nā-
    3lk-āvatu

    Aṭaiyāṟu-nāṭu ma-
    4l(ai)yaṉṉār āḷa Orukil maṇaṟ-
    5-c-cuṉai mēṟ paṭai vara Ūr Aḻiy(ā)-
    6maiy kāttu paṭṭāṉ catti
    7ma (va)kilavaṉ v¡i!⟨ī⟩raiyar-k (kal)
    8pe ⊓ṉṉ(ai)

    Apparatus

    1–4 ma/l(ai)yaṉṉār ◇ maliyaṉṉār ARIE

    Translation by Emmanuel Francis

    01Prosperity!

    1-3Fourteenth [year] of the victorious king Dantivikramavarman.

    4-8Stone (kal) [for] Cattima Vakilavaṉ Vīraiyar, who fell protecting the village without arm (aḻiyāmai) (for it, that is, the village), while Malaiyaṉ (malaiyaṉṉār) was ruling over the Aṭaiyāṟunāṭu [and] while an army was coming at once (orukil = orukāl?) on Maṇarccuṉai ... (peṉṉai)

    Bibliography

    Edited in Āvaṇam 1991–2019 (Āvaṇam 11, no. 2); text in Dayalan 2005; re-edited here for DHARMA (ERC n° 809994) by Emmanuel Francis (2020), based on the estampage published in ARIE 2000-2001.

    Primary

    Āvaṇam. 1991–2019. Tanjore: Archaeological Society.
    Volume 11 (July 2000), № 2. [siglum Āvaṇam]
    Dayalan, D. 2005. Computer Application in Indian Epigraphy (Pallava Period). New Delhi: Bharatiya Kala Prakashan.
    Volume 3, appendix I, page 1289, № 54. [siglum D]
    ARIE 2000-2001. Pages 4, 94, appendix B/2000–2001, № 461, plate IV. [siglum ARIE]

    Secondary

    IAR (2001). Page 169, № 21.