Current Version: draft, 2024-04-22Z
Editor: Emmanuel Francis.
DHARMA Identifier: INSPallava00451
Summary: Hero-stone commemorating the death of Cākūḻaṉ Vēḷāḷaṉ and recording a donation of land in honour of him.
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Medial u and ū not distinguished and interchangeable. The letter ṭu has a peculiar form.
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kō-vicaiya-kampa-vikkir¿i?⟨a⟩ma-paru-
2maṟku yāṇṭu muppa(tt-ā)vatu
paṭuvūr-k- kō-
3ṭṭattu mēl-aṭaiy¡a!⟨ā⟩ṟu-nāṭṭu-k kaṭaikaḷāṭṭ¡u!⟨ū⟩r (p)i-
4(ṉ/ṉa)[1+](m/ma) n(ā)yakaṉ cākūḻaṉ vēḷā¡l!⟨ḷ⟩aṉ vāṇar-pā-
5ṭikkaḷḷar Iv-v¡u!⟨ū⟩r (toṟu)k koḷḷap paṭṭ(ā)ṉ
6Ivaṉukku Ū(ru)ṅ koḷ nāṉṟu Aracañ ce-
7(ṟu) nettal paṭṭi Aṭṭittu
1–2 vikkir¿i?⟨a⟩maparu/maṟku ◇ vikkimaparuma/ṟku T; vikkiraparuma/ṟku DD
2 muppa(ttā)vatu ◇ muppatāvatu T DD • The regnal year of Kampavikramavarman is 36th according to ARIE 1992-1993.
3 mēlaṭaiy¡a!⟨ā⟩ṟunāṭṭuk ◇ mēlaṭaiyaṟunāṭu puk° T DD • We follow here the summary in ARIE. — 3 kaṭaikaḷāṭṭ¡u!⟨ū⟩r ◇ kaṭaikaḷāṭa pā° T DD • We follow here the summary in ARIE. — 3–4 (p)i /(ṉ/ṉa)[1+](m/ma) ◇ li ṉa [1+] ma T DD • ARIE reads teṉṉama.
4 vēḷā¡l!⟨ḷ⟩aṉ ◇ vēḷāḷaṉ T DD — 4–5 vāṇarpā/ṭikkaḷḷar ◇ viṇṭa pā/ṭik kaḷḷar T; viṇṭa/pāṭik kaḷḷar DD • We follow here the summary in ARIE.
6 Ū(ru)ṅ ◇ (Ūruṅ) T DD — 6 koḷ ◇ kōvu T DD
1 Prosperity! Fortune!
1-2 Tirthieth year of the victorious king Kampavikramavarman.
2-5 Cākūḻaṉ Vēḷāḷaṉ, ... chief (nāyakaṉ) [of] Kaṭaikaḷāṭṭūr in the Mēlaṭaiyāṟunāṭu in the Paṭuvūrkkōṭṭam, died, when thieves (kaḷḷar) from Vāṇarpāṭi (vāṇarpāṭi↓1) seized cattle [from] this village.
6-7 To him↓2, [there is] a field (ceṟu) that which the king has given, at the time of taking the village, as ... (nettal paṭṭi).
The findspot is Mēlcāṇaṅkuppam in Dayalan 2005.
Edited in Tayāḷaṉ 1995 (Āvaṇam no. 3.1); text in Dayalan 2005; re-edited and translated here for DHARMA (ERC n° 809994) by Emmanuel Francis (2022), based on photographs (2009).