Puḷiyaṉūr Hero-Stone, time of Siṃhavarman or Mahendravarman, year 20 EpiDoc encoding Emmanuel Francis intellectual authorship of edition Emmanuel Francis DHARMA Paris, CEIAS DHARMA_INSPallava00409

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 2019-2025 DHARMAbase Hero-stone commemorating the death of Mārāṉ during a cattle-raid.

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kō-vicaiya-ceyaviru parkē Irupatttu

Āḷu mīvēṇnṇāṭu cirṟuppppāḻ Āḷ vār pālāciriru mak kaḷ māṟaṉ kape ūru toṟu koṇ ṭa ñāṉṟu paṭṭā ṉ kal

°vicaiya° °vicai° °ceyaviruparkē maĪēntira-paruku notes that, since another hero-stone (INSPallava407) found nearby, dated to the reign of Siṃhaviṣṇu, mentions also the relatives of Pālāciriyar, the corrupted form ciyavirumar (that is, ceyavirupar, as he reads it) might be emended to cimmavarmaṉ. Āḷu Aṇṭa Read yāṇṭu? cirṟuppppāḻ ciṟupāḻ cirupāḻ kape ūru kaṅkalūru koṇṭa koḷ

Year ? twenty of the victorious king The name of the king is unclear: Mahendravarman for , Siṃhavarman for ..

This is the stone of/for Mārāṉ, a relative makkaḷ of Pālācirir, the ruler āḷvār of Ciṟuppāḻ in the Mīvēṇṇāṭu, he who fell at the time of seizing cattle at The name of this place is unclear: Kaṅkalūr for , Kapeyūr for ..

Pālācirir, the ruler of Ciṟuppāḻ = Pālācirikar, ruler of Ciṟuppāl (INSPallava406) = Pālāyiriyar, ruler of Ciṟuppāl (INSPallava407).

Edited in (Kalveṭṭu no. 3; 5 non epigraphical lines); re-edited, with substantial variant readings, in (no. 89; 9 epigraphical lines); text in (3 epigraphical lines, by mistake).

Encoded and translated here by Emmanuel Francis (2022), based on .

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