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

Emmanuel Francis

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPondicherry00001

Repository: Pondicherry (tfa-pondicherry-epigraphy)

File path: DHARMA_INSPondicherry00001.xml

Language: Tamil [Grantha, Tamil]

Commit: 2026-11-04 20:32 (e2dd903), last modified 2026-10-27 14:35
(c380055)

## Summary

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

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī

śrī-kaṉṉāra-tēvarkku yā⟨2⟩ṇṭu patt’ oṉpat-āvatu

vākūr śrī-m¡u!⟨ū⟩las¡t!⟨th⟩ā⟨3⟩ṉattu mahādevarkku
Iṟai-p-puṇai-c-cēriyu⟨4⟩ṭaiyāṉ vāṭṭuḻati nānūṟṟuva¡n!⟨ṉ⟩-ākiya
mummu⟨5⟩ṭi-c-cōḻa-p-pallavaraiyaṉ ca¡ṉ!⟨n⟩tirātitta⟨6⟩val vaytta
na¡ṉ!⟨n⟩tā-vilakk’ oṉṟiṉukku vait⟨7⟩ta cāvā m¡u!⟨ū⟩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.