Pākūr / Vākūr / Bahur, Tirumūlanātar temple, time of Kaṉṉaradeva, year 22

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis (emfr).

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

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

Repository: Pondicherry (tfa-pondicherry-epigraphy).

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPondicherry00006.

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Edition

⟨1⟩ śrī-kaṉṉara-devarkku yāṇṭu 2 10 4-vatu vā-
⟨2⟩ kūr śrī-m¡u!las¡t!āṉattu-p m¿ā?hādevark-
⟨3⟩ ku ka(rai) Uṭaiyāṉ kaliyaṉ maṉṟāṭi
⟨4⟩ Aiyya¡ṉṉ!-ākiya Irājāti⟨t⟩ta-p-pēr-araiya-
⟨5⟩ ṉ tiru-Uṇṇāḷikaiyil muṉpil ma-
⟨6⟩ ṇṭapattil mēlkk’ aṭain=ta Oḻukil
⟨7⟩ tūṇ Iraṇṭum Araikkāl Iraṇṭu⟨m⟩
⟨8⟩ Uttiramum Ivv-oḻukukku vēṇṭuva-
⟨9⟩ ṉa ellāñ ce⟨y⟩tu vaittāṉ Itu cantirāti⟨t⟩taval ↝

Translation by Kuppusamy & Vijayavenugopal 2010

⟨1⟩ 24th year ⟨of the reign⟩ of śrī-Kaṉṉara-tēvar.

⟨1–9⟩ Kaliyaṉ Maṉṟāṭi Aiyaṉ alias Irājātittappēraraiyaṉ, an official of Karai¹ has provided for making two pillars, two half pillars and a beam and did all that are necessary for this row in the western side of the hall, in front of the sanctum sanctorum, for the great Lord of śrī-Mūlastāṉam of Vākūr.

⟨10⟩ This is to last as long as the moon and the sun will last.

Bibliography

Not reported in ARIE.

Edited in Kuppusamy & Vijayavenugopal 2006 (PI 6) and translated in Kuppusamy & Vijayavenugopal 2010 (PI 6).

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. Pages 4–5, item 6.

[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 6.

Notes

1. A village.

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