Pākūr / Vākūr / Bahur, Tirumūlanātar temple, time of Parakesarivarman, year 3

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis (emfr).

Summary: Ardhamaṇḍapa, north wall. Parakesarivarman = Āditya II Cōḻa, RY 3 = 963 CE.

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

Repository: Pondicherry (tfa-pondicherry-epigraphy).

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPondicherry00010.

File path: DHARMA_INSPondicherry00010.xml.

Version: 2026-11-12 15:30 (02abf82), last modified 2026-11-06 14:49 (c48e74f).

Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī v¡i!ra-pāṇṭiyaṉ talai koṇṭa kō-
⟨2⟩ -⟨p⟩-parakēsari-panma⟨r⟩kku yāṇṭu 3-vatu vākūr śrī-m¡u!-
⟨3⟩ las¡t!āṉattu mahādeva⟨r⟩kku-c cempūr-k-kōṭṭattu
⟨4⟩ netim¡u!r-nāṭṭu-k karai Uṭaiyā⟨ṉ⟩ kaliyaṉ maṉṟāti Aiyya-
⟨5⟩ ¡ṉṉ!-ākiya Ācārakānta-p-palla-
⟨6⟩ raiyaṉ can¡t!rāti⟨t⟩taval vaitta na-
⟨7⟩ n=tā-viḷakk’ oṉṟiṉukku vaitta cāvā
⟨8⟩ m¡u!vā-p pēr-āṭu toṇṇūṟṟ’ āṟu
⟨9⟩ Eriya vaitta nilai-viḷakk’ o-
⟨10⟩ ṉṟu Ivai paṉmayē{ha}śva-
⟨11⟩ ra Irakṣai

Translation by Kuppusamy & Vijayavenugopal 2010

⟨1⟩ Hail! Prosperity!

⟨1–2⟩ 3rd year ⟨of the reign⟩ of the king Parakēsaripanmar who took the head of Vīrapāṇṭiyaṉ.

⟨2–10⟩ The never dying and never aging sheep donated by Kaliyaṉ Maṉṟāṭi Aiyyaṉ alias Ācārakānta-p-pallavaraiyaṉ, a share holder (karai uṭaiyāṉ) of Netimūr-nāṭu in Cempūr-k-kōṭṭam (an administrative division), for a perpetual lamp to the great Lord of śrī-Mūlastāṉam of Vākūr, are ninety-six; the standing lamp set up to burn is one.

⟨10–11⟩ These are under the protection of the great Śaiva devotees.

Bibliography

Not reported in ARIE.

Edited in Kuppusamy & Vijayavenugopal 2006 (PI 10) and translated in Kuppusamy & Vijayavenugopal 2010 (PI 10).

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 8–9, item 10.

[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 4, item 10.

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