This record is engraved on a hero-stone bearing the figure of a Brahman being pierced by an arrow near the neck. It is dated in the 21st year of Nandippōttaraiyar ‘who obtained the kingdom after defeating (his enemies at) Teḷḷāṟu’. The inscription is damaged and it refers to a certain Māvali (i.e., a Bāṇa chieftain) and to a raid causing the destruction of a maṭha, in saving which a Brahman hero named Śattimuṟṟattēvaṉ met with his death. The record mentions the temple of Arindigai-Īśvaram built at Parāntakapuram, which must have been respectively named after the Chōḷa kings Ariñjaya and his father Parāntaka I who flourished a century later. From palaeography also the record may be assigned to the 10th century A.D. It, therefore appears to be a later copy of the original record. The mention of a Bāṇa chief outside the Bāṇa territory is noteworthy.
svasti śrī
ḷāṟṟeṟintu
rājya
ṇṭa nantip
pottaraiyar
ku yāṇṭu Iru
pattoṉṟāvatu
parāntakapurat
tu Aṟinti
kaiĪśvaragṛ
haṃ śāsana
t=tāluṭaiyo
rum
yilātāki niṉṟa bhaṭṭareṉ māvali yani
yasthānamāḷvāṉ ce
ṇṭu vantu maṭamuñ cuṭṭuk kātta śigura
varaiyu meṟintu Ivar śiṣyan Oru brā
hmaṇaṉ cattimuṟṟattevan ṟuṇṭupa
ṭṭāṉ valluva
A.R. Nos. 262-270 of 1927.
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