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

Emmanuel Francis

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPondicherry00006

Repository: Pondicherry (tfa-pondicherry-epigraphy)

File path: DHARMA_INSPondicherry00006.xml

Language: Tamil [Grantha, Tamil]

Commit: 2026-11-05 12:37 (792c458), last modified 2026-11-05 12:37
(2b39f32)

## Summary

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

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ śrī-kaṉṉara-devarkku yāṇṭu 2 10 4-vatu

vā⟨2⟩kūr śrī-m¡u!⟨ū⟩las¡t!⟨th⟩āṉattu-p m¿ā?⟨a⟩hādevark⟨3⟩ku ka(rai)
Uṭaiyāṉ kaliyaṉ maṉṟāṭi ⟨4⟩ Aiyya¡ṉṉ!⟨ṉ⟩-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
Karai[1] 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.

[1] A village.