Kīḻmuṭṭukūr hero-stone, time of Parakesarivarman, year 32

Kīḻmuṭṭukūr hero-stone, time of Parakesarivarman, year 32 EpiDoc encoding Emmanuel Francis intellectual authorship of edition Emmanuel Francis DHARMA Paris, CEIAS DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00161

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matirai ko ṇṭa kō-p-para -kēcari-vanmaṟku yā ṇṭu muppattu Iraṇ ṭ-āvatu

vaṭa-karai mukkuṭṭūr ku māra-nantai puḻa lappaṉ pu li kutti nṉa karai-ṉā ṭu

Prosperity! In the thirty-second year of the reign of king Parakēsarivarman who conquered Madirai. This is the spot on the embankment, at which a tiger was stabbed by Kumāra-Nandai Puḻalappaṉ of Mukkuṭṭūr, a village on the northern bank of the Pālāṟu river.

Prosperity!

Thirty-second year of the king Parakesarivarman who took Maturai.

This is the enbankment karai place nāṭu where Kumāra Nantai Puḻalappaṉ of Mukkuṭṭūr, on the northern bank, pierced/stabbed kuttiṉa a tiger.

Reported in (ARIE/1895-1896/B/1896/2).

Edited and translated in (EI 4.22C).

This edition by Emmanuel Francis (2024), based on and photos (E. Francis 2024).

179 8 B/1896 2 VII (b)