SII 12.56: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar Nandivarman III. No. 56. (A.R. No. 144 of 1928-29). ŚEṈṈIVĀYAKKĀL, LALGUDI TALUK, TRICHINOPOLY DISTRICT. ON A HERO-STONE NEAR THE RUINED GŌPURA OF THE ŚIVA TEMPLE. author of digital edition Emmanuel Francis DHARMA Paris, CEIAS DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0056 DHARMAbase

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.

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svasti śrī . teḷ ḷāṟṟeṟintu rājyamuṅko ṇṭa nantip pottaraiyark ku yāṇṭu Iru pattoṉṟāvatu parāntakapurat tu Aṟinti kaiĪśvaragṛ haṃ śāsana t=tāluṭaiyo rum taḷi yilātāki niṉṟa bhaṭṭareṉ māvali yani yasthānamāḷvāṉ cevaṇaṟ kuṇṭu ko ṇṭu vantu maṭamuñ cuṭṭuk kātta śigura varaiyu meṟintu Ivar śiṣyan Oru brā hmaṇaṉ cattimuṟṟattevan ṟuṇṭupa ṭṭāṉ valluvaṉāṭṭāṉ .

cattimuṟṟattevan. His name suggests that he was probably a native of Śattimuṟṟam which is a village close to Paṭṭiśam in the ṭanjore district. The Tamil poet Śattimuṟṟappulavar hailed from this village. The inscriptions from this place are A.R. Nos. 262-270 of 1927.

Digital edition of SII 12.56 by converted to DHARMA conventions by Emmanuel Francis.

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