Cāttaṉūr hero-stone, time of Narasiṁhavarman, year 11

Cāttaṉūr hero-stone, time of Narasiṁhavarman, year 11 EpiDoc encoding Emmanuel Francis intellectual authorship of edition Emmanuel Francis DHARMA Paris, CEIAS DHARMA_INSPallava00295

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kō-vicaiya-naraciṅ ka-parumaṟku patiṉ oṉ r-āvatu

mēṟ-kōvalūr-nāṭṭu Aḷa Iviṟpāṭi kaṭipakaiyār toṟu koṇṭa ñā ṉṟu ceṉṟu toṟu Iṭuvittu paṭṭāru Uṇaṅka yār makaṉār kōttaiyār cēvakaṉ Ārōkavaṇka r makkaḷ kaṇimāta ṉār kal

Eleventh year of the victorious king NarasiṁhavarmanNaraciṅkaparumaṉ in the original Tamil..

This is the stone of Kaṇimātaṉār, the relative makkaḷ“servant (soldier?)” according to . of Ārōkavaṇkar, [who was] the servant of Kōttaiyār, who was the son of Uṇaṅkayār, he who fell rescuing iṭuviṭṭu cattle, when he went ceṉṟu at the time Kaṭipakaiyār of Aḷaviṟpāṭi in Mēṟ-Kōvalūr-nātu seized cattle.

6881 notes: The figure of a soldier facing left is engraved on the stone. It holds a spear in its left hand and a short sword in its right hand.

Naraciṅkaparumaṉ (Sanskrit Narasiṁhavarman) has been tentatively identified as Narasiṁhavarman I by .

Edited in (CN 1971/36); text and summary in (IP 295); encoded here by Emmanuel Francis (2021), based on previous editions.

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