Cāṇaṅkuppam hero-stone no. 2, time of Kampavikramavarman, year 30 EpiDoc encoding Emmanuel Francis intellectual authorship of edition Emmanuel Francis DHARMA Paris, CEIAS DHARMA_INSPallava00451

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 2019-2025 DHARMAbase Hero-stone commemorating the death of Cākūḻaṉ Vēḷāḷaṉ and recording a donation of land in honour of him.

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kō-vicaiya-kampa-vikkiriama-paru maṟku yāṇṭu muppatt-āvatu

paṭuvūr-k- kō ṭṭattu mēl-aṭaiyaāṟu-nāṭṭu-k kaṭaikaḷāṭṭuūr pi ṉṉamma nāyakaṉ cākūḻaṉ vēḷālḷaṉ vāṇar-pā ṭikkaḷḷar Iv-vuūr toṟuk koḷḷap paṭṭāṉ

Ivaṉukku Ūruṅ koḷ nāṉṟu Aracañ ce ṟu nettal paṭṭi Aṭṭittu

vikkiriamaparu maṟku vikkimaparuma ṟku vikkiraparuma ṟku muppattāvatu muppatāvatu The regnal year of Kampavikramavarman is 36th according to . mēlaṭaiyaāṟunāṭṭuk mēlaṭaiyaṟunāṭu puk° We follow here the summary in . kaṭaikaḷāṭṭuūr kaṭaikaḷāṭa pā° We follow here the summary in . pi ṉṉamma li ṉa ma reads teṉṉama. vēḷālḷaṉ vēḷāḷaṉ vāṇarpā ṭikkaḷḷar viṇṭa pāṭik kaḷḷar viṇṭa pāṭik kaḷḷar We follow here the summary in . Ūruṅ Ūruṅ koḷ kōvu

Prosperity! Fortune!

Tirthieth year of the victorious king Kampavikramavarman.

Cākūḻaṉ Vēḷāḷaṉ, chief nāyakaṉ of Kaṭaikaḷāṭṭūr in the Mēlaṭaiyāṟunāṭu in the Paṭuvūrkkōṭṭam, died, when thieves kaḷḷar from Vāṇarpāṭi vāṇarpāṭiThat is, the territory of the Bāṇas. seized cattle from this village.

To himThat is, “in honour of him”., there is a field ceṟu that which the king has given, at the time of taking the village, as nettal paṭṭi.

The findspot is Mēlcāṇaṅkuppam in .

Edited in (Āvaṇam no. 3.1); text in ; re-edited and translated here by Emmanuel Francis (2022), based on photographs (2009).

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