# Tiruvāṇṭārkōyil, Pañcanatīśvara temple, time of Parakesarivarma, year
40+

Emmanuel Francis

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPondicherry00046

Repository: Pondicherry (tfa-pondicherry-epigraphy)

File path: DHARMA_INSPondicherry00046.xml

Language: Tamil [Tamil]

Commit: 2026-11-12 15:30 (02abf82), last modified 2026-11-06 15:29
(c386b7e)

## Summary

Fragment. Parāntaka I Cōḻa, year 40+, 947 CE at the earliest.

------------------------------------------------------------------------

## Edition

⟨1⟩ […] ṭa kō-p-para-kēsari-paṉ[mar]kku yāṇṭu nālppa […] tocam
tiripuvaṉa-mātēvi-c-ca […] ⟨2⟩ […] parama-cuvāmikaḷukku Ivvūr-k
kuñcuramalla-p pe […] rippāṉ pūti makaṉ maṇinākaṉ […] ⟨3⟩ […] ṇṇūṟu Āṭum
koṇṭu tiruviḷa […] ṉ talai mēllattu […]

## Apparatus

⟨1⟩ °paṉ[mar]kku ⬦ paṉ[maṟ]kku PI.

## Translation by Kuppusamy & Vijayavenugopal 2010

⟨1⟩ […] year fourty […] of the king Parakēsaripaṉmar […]
Tiripuvaṉamātēvicca […]

⟨2⟩ […] Maṇināka, the son of […] rippāṉ Pūti […] Kuñjaramallappe […] of
this village, to the Lord Paramasvāmikaḷ […]

⟨3⟩ […] the sacred lamp ⟨to be burnt⟩ after receiving the ninety sheep
[…]

## Bibliography

Not reported in ARIE.

Edited in Kuppusamy & Vijayavenugopal 2006 (PI 46) and translated in
Kuppusamy & Vijayavenugopal 2010 (PI 46).

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. Page 56, item 46.

[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 23,
item 46.