Ālaṅkuppam hero-stone EpiDoc encoding Emmanuel Francis intellectual authorship of edition Emmanuel Francis DHARMA Paris, CEIAS DHARMA_INSPallava00435

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DHARMAbase Hero-stone erected in honour of Cattima Vakilavaṉ Vīraiyar.

Early Tamil script.

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kō-vicaiya-danti-vikkirama-paru markku yāṇṭu patiṉ nā lk-āvatu

Aṭaiyāṟu-nāṭu ma laiyaṉṉār āḷa Orukil maṇaṟ -c-cuṉai mēṟ paṭai vara Ūr Aḻiyā maiy kāttu paṭṭāṉ catti ma vakilavaṉ viīraiyar-k kal pe ṉṉai

ma laiyaṉṉār maliyaṉṉār

Prosperity!

Fourteenth year of the victorious king Dantivikramavarman.

Stone kal for Cattima Vakilavaṉ Vīraiyar, who fell protecting the village without arm aḻiyāmai for it, that is, the village, while Malaiyaṉ malaiyaṉṉār was ruling over the Aṭaiyāṟunāṭu and while an army was coming at once orukil = orukāl? on Maṇarccuṉai peṉṉai

Edited in (Āvaṇam 11.2); text in ; re-edited here by Emmanuel Francis (2020), based on the estampage published in .

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