Cē. Kūṭalūr hero-stone, time of Mahendravarman, year 38

Cē. Kūṭalūr hero-stone, time of Mahendravarman, year 38 EpiDoc encoding Emmanuel Francis intellectual authorship of edition Emmanuel Francis DHARMA Paris, CEIAS DHARMA_INSPallava00285

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Records the death of a hero in a fight.

Two types of ṉ. Compare occurrences in lines 6 to 8.

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kō-vicai ya-maIyintira-paru maṟ·ku mu-p-patt’ eṭṭ-ā vātu

vāṇa-kō-Av-araicaru maru -makkaḷ kan·ta-viṇṇa ṉār kūṭal toṟu-k koṇṭa ñāṉṟu toṟu Iṭuvittu-p paṭṭā ṉ poṉ·ṉarampaṉār kol·laka-c cēvakaṉ· kākkaṇṭi Aṇṇāvaṉ kal

kūṭal Iḷa -makkaḷ naṭuvi tta kal

kākkaṇṭi kākaṇṭi

Tirthy-eight year of the victorious king MahendravarmanMayIyintiraparumaṉ the original Tamil..

This is the stone of Kākaṇṭi Aṇṇāvaṉ, the servant of Poṉṉarampaṉār, he who fell recapturing iṭuvittuThat is (?), viṭuvittu, literally "liberating". cattle when Kantaviṇṇaṉār, the nephew of the royal Bāṇa king seized cattle in kūṭal.

This is stone that the people iḷa-makkaḷ suggests to translate as "soldiers". of Kūṭal had planted.

Edited in (CN 1971/50); text and summary in (IP 285); encoded an re-edited here by Emmanuel Francis (2021), based on photographs (2009).

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