Pākūr / Vākūr / Bahur, Tirumūlanātar temple, time of Kaṉṉaradeva, year 19

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis (emfr).

Summary: Ardhamaṇḍapa, east wall. Kaṉṉaradeva = Kṛṣṇa III Rāṣṭrakūṭa, RY 19 = 958 CE.

Language: Tamil (tam) [Grantha (grantha), Tamil (tamil)].

Repository: Pondicherry (tfa-pondicherry-epigraphy).

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Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī śrī-kaṉṉāra-tēvarkku yā-
⟨2⟩ ṇṭu patt’ oṉpat-āvatu vākūr śrī-m¡u!las¡t!ā-
⟨3⟩ ṉattu mahādevarkku Iṟai-p-puṇai-c-cēriyu-
⟨4⟩ ṭaiyāṉ vāṭṭuḻati nānūṟṟuva¡n!-ākiya mummu-
⟨5⟩ ṭi-c-cōḻa-p-pallavaraiyaṉ ca¡ṉ!tirātitta-
⟨6⟩ val vaytta na¡ṉ!tā-vilakk’ oṉṟiṉukku vait-
⟨7⟩ ta cāvā m¡u!vā pēr-āṭu toṇṇūṟu Ivai
⟨8⟩ panmāheśvarar· Irakṣai

Translation by Kuppusamy & Vijayavenugopal 2010

⟨1⟩ Hail! Prosperity!

⟨1–2⟩ Year nineteen ⟨of the reign⟩ of śrī-Kaṉṉara-tēvar.

⟨2–7⟩ The never dying and never ageing sheep donated by Vāṭṭuḻati Nāṉūṟṟuvaṉ alias Mummuṭi-c-cōḻa-p-pallavaraiyaṉ of Iṟaippuṇai-c-cēri for a perpetual lamp to the great Lord of śrī-Mūlastāṉam of Vākūr, as long as the moon and the sun will last, are ninety.

⟨7–8⟩ These are under the protection of the great Śaiva devotees (Māheśvaras).

Bibliography

Not reported in ARIE?

Edited in Kuppusamy & Vijayavenugopal 2006 (PI 1) and translated in Kuppusamy & Vijayavenugopal 2010 (PI 1).

This digital edition by Emmanuel Francis, based on Kuppusamy & Vijayavenugopal 2006. This translation adapted from Kuppusamy & Vijayavenugopal 2010 (PI 1).

Primary

[PI] Kuppusamy, Bahour S. & G. Vijayavenugopal. 2006. Pondicherry inscriptions. Part I: Introduction and texts with notes = Putuccēri mānilak kalveṭṭukkaḷ. Pondichéry: Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient; Institut français de Pondichéry. Page 1, item 1.

[PI] Kuppusamy, Bahour S. & G. Vijayavenugopal. 2010. Pondicherry inscriptions. Part II: Translation, appendices, glossary and phrases, [and] preface = Putuccēri mānilak kalveṭṭukkaḷ. Pondichéry: Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient; Institut français de Pondichéry. Page 1, item 1.

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