Pākūr / Vākūr / Bahur, Tirumūlanātar temple, time of Parakesarivarman, year 5

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis (emfr).

Summary: Central shrine, south wall. Parakesarivarman = Āditya II Cōḻa, RY 5 = 965 CE.

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

Repository: Pondicherry (tfa-pondicherry-epigraphy).

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPondicherry00011.

File path: DHARMA_INSPondicherry00011.xml.

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Edition

⟨1⟩ śrī-pāṇṭiyaṉ talai ⟨⟨koṇṭa⟩⟩ kō-⟨p⟩-parakēsari-pa(nma)⟨r⟩kki yāṇṭu 5-Ā⟨va⟩tu

⟨2⟩ śrī-m¡u!las¡t!āṉam-uṭ(ai)yār⟨k⟩ku-p peruṅkoṉṟai tēvappai-paṭṭar

⟨3⟩ makaṉ nampi tāmōtiraṉ vaitta nun=tā-viḷakk’ oṉṟu Itu

⟨4⟩ can¡t!rātittaval

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ ⟨⟨koṇṭa⟩⟩ SII ⬦ ⟨koṇṭa⟩ PI.

Translation by Kuppusamy & Vijayavenugopal 2010

⟨1⟩ 5th year ⟨of the reign⟩ of the king Parakēsaripanmar, who took the head of Vīrapāṇṭiyaṉ

⟨2–3⟩ The perpetual lamp endowed by Nampi Tāmōtiraṉ, son of Tēvappai-paṭṭar of Peruṅ-koṉṟai (a village), is one.

⟨3–4⟩ This is to last till the moon and the sun will last.

Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1901–02 (ARIE/1901-1902/B/1902/173).

Edited in Subrahmanya Aiyer 1932 (SII 7.800).

Edited in Kuppusamy & Vijayavenugopal 2006 (PI 11) and translated in Kuppusamy & Vijayavenugopal 2010 (PI 11).

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 800.

[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 7, item 11.

[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 9, item 11.

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 173.

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