Aracalāpuram memorial stone for a cock EpiDoc encoding Emmanuel Francis Valérie Gillet intellectual authorship of edition Emmanuel Francis Valérie Gillet DHARMA Paris DHARMA_INSPallava00397

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 2019-2025 DHARMAbase Memorial stone set up in honour of a cock, which fought for the western quarters (mēl-cēri) of a village. It is not clear whether the stone commemorates the death of the cock when fighting (as in the case of a deceased warrior) or its victorious fight.

The puḷḷi is used. There are characters of eccentric ductus: ku and k=ka (line 2).

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mukaiyuūru mēṟ·-cē rikuy āṭi-k= ka rukiya kōḻi

mukaiyuūru mukaiyūru mukaiyuru mukaiyuūru mēṟ·cē rikuy mēṟcē riṭuy meṟce riṭuy mēṟ·cē rikuy The syllable ku of eccentric ductus was previously read ṭu. āṭik= āṭi āṭik āṭik=

The image of the cock was engraved after it had fought on behalf of Mēṟcēri in in Mukaiyūr.

The cock, which was scarred translates as "was engraved" as he equates karukiya with karukkiya. We suggest that karukiya is the past form of karuku-tal, one of the meaning of which, according to the Madras Tamil Lexicon, is "to be scorched, scarred". when fighting for the MēṟcēriThat is, the western quarters. of Mukaiyūr.

This inscription is counted in the Pallava corpus, insofar as its date (5th century CE according to ) and provenance correspond the period and the area of the Pallava rule in northern Tamil Nadu.

A similar inscription, commemorating a victorious cock with a strikingly similar image of a cock, has been found at Intaḷūr (DHARMA_INSPallava00401). The two inscriptions appears to be closely related: the present Aracalāpuram inscription commemorates the fighting cock of the western quarters, whereas the Intaḷūr inscription commemorates the fighting cock of the eastern quarters.

See the comments by 624-626.

Reported in ; Edited in ; re-edited in , , ; re-edited and translated ; re-edited here by Emmanuel Francis and Valérie Gillet (2021) from photographs (2013) and visual documentation in .

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