Cāttaṉūr hero-stone, time of Mahendravarman, year 39

Cāttaṉūr hero-stone, time of Mahendravarman, year 39 EpiDoc encoding Emmanuel Francis intellectual authorship of edition Emmanuel Francis DHARMA Paris, CEIAS DHARMA_INSPallava00286

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kō-vicaiya-macīyēntira-paru maṟku mu-p-patt’ oṉpat-āvatu

vāṇa-kō-Av-araicaru maru-makkaḷ po ṟṟokkaiyār carukkirunta-Ūr pō ntai mēṟ cakkaravaru paṭai vanta ñā ṉṟu nākkaiyār iḷa-makaṉ vattāva ṉ makaṉ ṉan ti Eṟintu paṭṭā ṉ kal

Tirthy-ninth year of the victorious king MahendravarmanMacīyēntiraparumaṉ the original Tamil..

This is the stone of Nandin, the son of Vattāvaṉ and the younger son iḷa-makaṉ of Nākkaiyār, he who fell fighting eṟintu when Poṟṟokkaiyār and the people maru-makkaḷ of the royal Bāṇa king marched vantaLiterally “went”. with the army of Cakkaravar upon Pōntai in carukk-irunta-Ūr.

Poṟṟokkaiyār is mentioned in another inscription.

Edited in (CN 1971/35); text and summary in (IP 286); encoded here by Emmanuel Francis (2021), based on previous editions.

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