Karuṅkālippāṭipaṭṭi hero-stone, time of Mahendravarman, year 14 EpiDoc encoding Emmanuel Francis intellectual authorship of edition Emmanuel Francis DHARMA Paris, CEIAS DHARMA_INSPallava00278

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kō-vicaiya-macīntira m-parumaṟku patiṉ ṉnāṉ k-āvatu

mī -vēṇṇā ṭtu karuṅ -kāli-pāṭi Āḷ koṟṟa vāciṟ karucā ttaṉāru maka ṉ kaṭṭaṅka ṉṉāru poṟ -kāṭāṉṉāru cē vakaru naripaḷ ḷi vīra-vāṇṇa raiyaru makkaḷ poṉṟ-pāṉaṉ ṉār-ōṭ’ eṟintu paṭṭāru kal

poṟ° Only the kāl of o is unclear.

Fourteenth year of the victorious king MahendravarmanMacīntiraparumaṉ in the original Tamil..

This is the stone of Kaṭṭaṅkaṉṉār ― the son of KoṟṟavāciṟProbably a placename. Karucāttaṉār, who rules over Karuṅkālipāṭi in MīvēṇāṭuThat is, Mēlvēnāṭu according to . ―, he who fell paṭṭār fighting eṟintu with Poṟpāṉaṉṉār, one of the people / the son makkaḷ of Naripaḷḷi Vīravāṇṇaraiyar, the servant of PoṟkāṭāṉṉārIt is not clear who is the servant of Poṟkāṭāṉṉār: Poṟpāṉaṉṉār, following and according to the names similarity, or Naripaḷḷi Vīravāṇṇaraiyar, according to straightforward syntax?.Alternative translation: "Kaṭṭaṅkaṉṉār fell. This is his stone.

Edited in (CN 1971/113); text and summary in (IP 278); encoded here by Emmanuel Francis (2021), based on previous editions.

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