# Tiruvāymūr, Tyagarājasvāmin temple, time of Varaguṇa, year [lost]

Valérie Gillet and Emmanuel Francis

Authors of digital edition: Valérie Gillet, Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPandya00507

Repository: Pāṇḍya (tfa-pandya-epigraphy)

File path: DHARMA_INSPandya00507.xml

Language: Tamil [Grantha, Tamil]

Commit: 2026-10-01 13:11 (562e33f), last modified 2026-09-29 11:09
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## Summary

Tyagarājasvāmin temple, Tiruvāymūr, Tirukkuvaḷai taluk, Nākappaṭṭiṉam
district. On the southern base of the main sanctuary, starting on the
south-west corner; regnal year lost of Varaguṇa Mahārāja. This
unpublished inscription is the first inscription of a series of
epigraphs which were copied after the 11th century. It is followed by an
inscription probably dated with a Pallava regnal year ([…] potta […] is
legible, referring probably to Nantippōttaraiyar of whom we often find
inscription where the Pāṇḍyan gives).

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

kō-(va)rakuṇa-marāya(ṟ)k(ku) […] na tiruvāmūr mahādevaṟku
n¿a?⟨o⟩ntā-viḷakkukku vai⟨2⟩⟨t⟩ta […] ṇaka […] vaitta (to)

panmā […] (e) […] kṣai ∥

## Translation by Gillet 2017

Hail! Prosperity! […] of king Varaguṇa Mahārāja […] For Mahādeva of
Tiruvāmūr, for a perpetual lamp (nantāviḷakkukku for nontāviḷakku) was
endowed (vaita for vaitta) […] was endowed (vaitta) […] This is under
the protection ([ra]kṣai) of the Panmā[heśvaras].

## Commentary

Built in the middle.

## Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1962–63 (ARIE/1962-1963/B/1962-1963/605), in Mahalingam
1992 (Tj 1673).

Edited and translated in Gillet 2017, based on autopsy and photographs
(Valérie Gillet, 2016).

This digital edition by Valérie Gillet and Emmanuel Francis.

### Primary

Gillet, Valérie. 2017. “Devotion and Dominion: Ninth-Century Donations
of a Pāṇḍyan King in Temples along the River Kāvēri.” IIJ 60 (3), pp.
219–283. DOI: 10.1163/15728536-06003002. [URL]. Page 271, item 25.

### Secondary

ARIE 1962–63. Annual report on Indian epigraphy for 1962-63. By G. S.
Gai. Delhi: Manager of Publications, 1967. Page 117, appendixes
B/1962-1963, item 605.

[TLI] Mahalingam, T. V. 1992. A topographical list of inscriptions in
the Tamil Nadu and Kerala states. Volume Seven: Thanjavur district. New
Delhi: ICHR.