Taṇṭampaṭṭu hero-stone, time of Mahendravarman, year 18

Taṇṭampaṭṭu hero-stone, time of Mahendravarman, year 18 EpiDoc encoding Emmanuel Francis intellectual authorship of edition Emmanuel Francis DHARMA Paris, CEIAS DHARMA_INSPallava00279

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kō-vicaiya-mayīntira-paru maṟku patiṉ Eṭṭ-āvatu

mī -vēṇāṭṭu Āntai-pāṭi Īcai perum-pāṇaraicaru maru-makkaḷ poṟ-cēntiyāñ cēvakaru toṟu -k-koṇṭa ñāṉṟu mīṭṭu paṭṭā ṉ vēṇāṭṭu nanti yār kal ka

ka suggests these are to be read in continuation with line 7.

Seventeenth year of the victorious king MahendravarmanMayīntiraparumaṉ in the original Tamil..

This is the stone of Nantiyār of Vēṇāṭu, he who fell rescuing mīṭṭu cattle when the servant of Poṟcēntiyāṉ, the nephew of Īcai Perumpāṇaraicar of Āntaipāṭi in Mīvēṇāṭu, seized cattle.

Edited in (CN 1971/77); text and summary in (IP 279); encoded here by Emmanuel Francis (2021), based on previous editions.

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