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

Emmanuel Francis

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPondicherry00011

Repository: Pondicherry (tfa-pondicherry-epigraphy)

File path: DHARMA_INSPondicherry00011.xml

Language: Tamil [Grantha, Tamil]

Commit: 2026-11-12 15:30 (02abf82), last modified 2026-11-06 14:49
(1efc609)

## Summary

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

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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!⟨ū⟩las¡t!⟨th⟩āṉam-uṭ(ai)yār⟨k⟩ku-p peruṅkoṉṟai
tēvappai-paṭṭar ⟨3⟩ makaṉ nampi tāmōtiraṉ vaitta nun=tā-viḷakk’ oṉṟu

Itu ⟨4⟩ can¡t!⟨d⟩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.