Corakōlatūr hero-stone

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Current Version:  draft, 2024-04-22Z

Editor:   Emmanuel Francis.

DHARMA Identifier: INSPallava00500

Summary: Hero-stone erected in honour of Ceruvaliyār, son of Nāyakar Ataṭṭiyār.

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The letter ள் ḷ has a peculiar form.

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¹svasti śrī

²kōvicaiya-nanti-vikkirra(m)-
³ma-parumark¡i!⟨u⟩ yāṇṭu patiṉēḻava-
⁴tu

pal-kuṉrā-k-kōṭṭattu maṇṭaikuḷa-nā-
⁵ṭṭu-c curaikkuḷattu-t toṟu-k-kōḷil
⁶ppaṭṭ(ā)r nilam peṟṟ(u/a) nāyakar Ataṭ-
⁷ṭiyār makaṉār ceruvaliyār

Apparatus

⁵ curaikkuḷattu • The reading cuṉaikkuḷattu is a possibility, but ṉ has not such a long stroke in the inscription.

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

¹Prosperity! Fortune!

^2-4Year twenty-seven of the victorious king Nandivikramavarman.

^4-7Ceruvaliyār, son of Nāyakar Ataṭṭiyār, who fell in a cattle-raid at Curaikkuḷam in the Palkuṉrākkōṭṭam (and) in the Maṇṭaikuḷanāṭu, obtained a land.

Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 2018-2019 with facsimile; re-edited and first translated here for DHARMA (ERC n° 809994) by Emmanuel Francis (2020), based on the facsimile published in ARIE 2018-2019.

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