# Pākūr / Vākūr / Bahur, Tirumūlanātar temple, time of Kaṉṉaradeva, year
24

Emmanuel Francis

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPondicherry00005

Repository: Pondicherry (tfa-pondicherry-epigraphy)

File path: DHARMA_INSPondicherry00005.xml

Language: Tamil [Grantha, Tamil]

Commit: 2026-11-04 20:32 (e2dd903), last modified 2026-11-04 20:32
(e2dd903)

## Summary

Ardhamaṇḍapa, east wall. Kaṉṉaradeva = Kṛṣṇa III Rāṣṭrakūṭa, RY 24 = 963
CE.

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ śvasti

śrī-kaṉṉara-tēva⟨r⟩kku yā⟨2⟩ṇṭu 2 10 4-vatu

vākūr ¡śi!⟨śrī⟩-m¡u!⟨ū⟩las¡t!⟨th⟩āṉa⟨3⟩ttu-p mahādevarkku tiruvā⟨y⟩ppāṭi
Iru⟨4⟩kku⟨m⟩ maṉṟāṭi kōṉūr nakkaṉ vaitta na⟨5⟩ntā-viḷakku Arai{vi}kku
vaitta Āṭu ⟨6⟩ nā¿p?⟨ṟ⟩-patt’ āṟu

Ivai can¡t!⟨d⟩rati⟨t⟩taval

## Translation by Kuppusamy & Vijayavenugopal 2010

⟨1⟩ Hail!

⟨1–2⟩ 24th year of śrī-Kaṉṉara-tēvar.

⟨3–6⟩ For the half perpetual lamp for the great Lord of śrī-Mūlastāṉam
of Vākūr, donated by Nakkaṉ of Kōṉūr, a shepherd, who lives in
Tiruvāy-p-pāṭi, the sheep endowed (for this) are fourty-six.

⟨6⟩ This is to last till the moon and the sun will last.

## Bibliography

Not reported in ARIE.

Edited in Kuppusamy & Vijayavenugopal 2006 (PI 5) and translated in
Kuppusamy & Vijayavenugopal 2010 (PI 5).

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

### 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 4, item 5.

[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 2,
item 5.