Mēl Puñcai, hero-stone, time of Māntavarman, year 19 EpiDoc encoding Emmanuel Francis intellectual authorship of edition Emmanuel Francis DHARMA Paris, CEIAS DHARMA_INSPallava00292

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mānta-parumaṟku pati oṉṟ-āvatu

koṅka ṇi Araicaru paṭai-Ōṭu ciri -kaṅkaraicaru caṅka-maṅkalat t’ eṟinta ñāṉṟu ciri-kaṅkaraicaru cēvakar-Ōṭu kaṉāya r Eṟintu paṭṭa kal

Nineteenth year of MāndavarmanMāntaparumaṉ in the original Tamil..

This is the stone of KaṉāyarAlternatively kaṉāyar, taking into account the missing character as part of the name of the decesed hero., who fell paṭṭaNote the phrase paṭṭa kal, attested also in IP 291, instead of the usual paṭṭāṉ/paṭṭār kal. fighting eṟintu along with -ōṭu takes -ōṭu as part of the name of the deceased hero, that is, Ōṭu-kaṉāyār. the servants cēvakar of the glorious Gaṅga king, when the glorious Gaṅga king fought eṟinta in Caṅkamaṅkalam with the army of the Koṅkaṇi king.

The identity of the king Māndavarman (Māntaparumaṉ in the original Tamil) is unclear.

Reported in .

Edited in (CN 1971/100); text and summary in (IP 292).

Encoded here by Emmanuel Francis (2021), based on previous editions.

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