Olakkūr, time of Kampapperumāḷ, no year EpiDoc encoding Emmanuel Francis intellectual authorship of edition Emmanuel Francis DHARMA Paris, CEIAS DHARMA_INSPallava00234

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 2019-2025 DHARMAbase Hero-stone inscription commemorating the death of Totupatti Mātirakaṉ.

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kampa-p-pe rumāḷ Āṉai-y ā ṭiṉa kontaḷat tu Ivv-ūr aḻin ta nāṭ paṭṭāṉ I v v-ūr to tupa tti mātira kaṉ

svasti śrī

On the day this village was destroyed in the turmoil that the elephant(s) of KampapperumāḷSanskrit Kampa + Tamil Perumāl. That is, the lord Kampaṉ, that is Kampavarman Pallava. caused, he who fell was Totupatti Mātirakaṉ of this village.

Prosperity! Fortune!

suggests that Totupatti Mātirakaṉ was a mahout a and notes that A figure of this hero advancing with a drawn sword in his right hand is also represented on the stone. This figure undermines, according to , the identification of Totupatti Mātirakaṉ as a mahout, as he is not represented mounted on a elephant. The fact that Totupatti Mātirakaṉ hailed from the attacked village suggests that he opposed the soldiers of Kampavarman. The absence of regnal year, which can be interpreted as a non allegiance mark to Kampavarman, is also noteworthy.

The auspicious words svasti śrī are usually found at the beginning of inscriptions. It is possible that this phrase here belongs to another inscription, engraved after the present one on the same slab.

Reported in (ARIE/1909-1910/B/1909/357).

Edited in (SII 12.112). Text and summary in (IP 234).

This digital edition by Emmanuel Francis, based on previous edition(s).

53 112 591 234 30 B/1909 357