# Pākūr / Vākūr / Bahur, Tirumūlanātar temple, time of Kaṉṉaradeva, year
26

Emmanuel Francis

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPondicherry00007

Repository: Pondicherry (tfa-pondicherry-epigraphy)

File path: DHARMA_INSPondicherry00007.xml

Language: Tamil [Grantha, Tamil]

Commit: 2026-11-05 16:06 (a17481c), last modified 2026-11-05 16:06
(ab35dbf)

## Summary

Central shrine, south wall. Kaṉṉaradeva = Kṛṣṇa III Rāṣṭrakūṭa, RY 26 =
965 CE.

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ śrī-kaṉṉara-devarkku yā⟨2⟩ṇṭu 2 10 6-Āvatu

na⟨3⟩mi nākaṉ caṅkara⟨ṉ⟩ I⟨4⟩ppaṭaikku vaicca ⟨5⟩ kallu nālu ↝

## Apparatus

⟨3⟩ nākan PI ⬦ na(k)kaṉ SII • PI: “The word nākaṉ occurring in the third
line is given as nakkaṉ in SII edition; but it is very clear in the
wall.”

## Translation by Kuppusamy & Vijayavenugopal 2010

⟨1–2⟩ 26th year ⟨of the reign⟩ of śrī-Kaṉṉara-tēvar.

⟨2–5⟩ The stones ⟨slabs⟩ donated by Nami Nākaṉ Caṅkaraṉ, for this tier,
are four.

## Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1901–02 (ARIE/1901-1902/B/1902/172).

Edited in Subrahmanya Aiyer 1932 (SII 7.799).

Edited in Kuppusamy & Vijayavenugopal 2006 (PI 7) and translated in
Kuppusamy & Vijayavenugopal 2010 (PI 7).

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

### Primary

[SII] Subrahmanya Aiyer, K.V. 1932. South-Indian inscriptions (texts).
Volume VII: Miscellaneous inscriptions from the Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu
and Kannada countries. South Indian Inscriptions 7. Calcutta: Government
of India, Central Publication Branch. Page 407, item 799.

[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 5, item 7.

[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 3,
item 7.

### Secondary

[ARIE] ARIE 1901–02. G.O. Nos. 763, 764, 6th August 1902. Epigraphy.
Passing orders on the annual report on – for 1901-1902. Copy to the
Government of India. Edited by Eugen Julius Theodor Hultzsch. Madras:
Government of Madras, Public Department, 1902. Page 13, appendix B/1902,
item 172.