# Kōvintapputtūr / Govindapputtūr, Gaṅgājaṭādhara temple, time of
Parakesarivarman, year (1)3

Valérie Gillet and Emmanuel Francis

Authors of digital edition: Valérie Gillet, Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00518

Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy)

File path: DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00518.xml

Language: Tamil [Grantha, Tamil]

Commit: 2026-11-15 15:59 (9615181), last modified 2026-09-29 11:10
(5251b7d)

## Summary

On the upper part of the southernmost wall section of the western façade
of the sanctuary. Regnal year 13 of Kōpparakesarivarman = Uttamacōḻa
(circa 984 CE).

## Palaeographic description

Some mistakes are unusual: cōḻḻa for cōḻa, vimmā for vimāṉa, paḻuvuṟ for
paḻuvūr, hmādevaṟku for mahādevaṟku.

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ svasti ⟨⟨śrī⟩⟩

kō-p-para-kēcari-panmaṟku yāṇṭu (10) 3 muṉṟ-āvatu

vaṭa-karai-brahmadeyam pe⟨2⟩riya
śrī-vāṉavaṉ-mā-tēvi-c-catu(r)vveti-maṅkalattu
śrī-vijaya-maṅkala-t(ē)⟨3⟩vaṟ kōyi⟨l⟩ śrī-vi¿mm?⟨m⟩ā⟨ṉam⟩ kallā⟨l⟩
Eḻu(nt-a)ruḷḷuviccēṉ śrī-U¿t?⟨tt⟩a¿mma?⟨m⟩-cō¿ḻḻ?⟨ḻ⟩a-tēvaṟ
peru⟨4⟩n-tiṟattu kuvaḷḷālam Uṭaiyāṉ Ampalavaṉ paḻuv¿u?⟨ū⟩ṟ nakkaṉ-āna
vikrama-cō¿ḻḻ?⟨ḻ⟩a⟨5⟩-mā-rā(ya)¡nn!⟨n⟩ē

I-śrī-vijaya-maṅkalattu ¿hmā?⟨mahā⟩-devaṟku ṉā

## Apparatus

⟨1⟩ svasti ⟨⟨śrī⟩⟩ • G: “The śrī was forgotten and added under the line,
between the sti and the ko.”

## Translation by Gillet 2023

⟨1⟩ Fortune! Prosperity!

⟨1⟩ ⟨This is the⟩ 13th year of Kōpparakesarivarman.

⟨1–5⟩ I, Ampalavaṉ Paḻuvūr Nakkaṉ alias Vikramacōḻa Mārāyan, lord
(uṭaiyāṉ) of Kuvaḷḷālam, of the peruntaṟam of Śrī-Uttamacōḻatēvar, I
have graciously caused to raise (eḻuntaruḷḷuviccēṉ) in stone the holy
sanctuary of the temple of Śrī-Vijayamaṅgaladevar of the big
Śrī-Vāṉavaṉ-mahādevi-caturvetimaṅgalam, a brahmadeya of the northern
bank.

⟨5⟩ For Mahādeva of this Śrī-Vijayamaṅkalam … (ṉa)

## Commentary

⟨5⟩ The inscription is unfinished.

## Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1928–29 (ARIE/1928-1929/B/1928-1929/165).

Edited in Srinivasa Rao et al. 1967 (SII 19.332), in Swaminathan 2012
(SII 32, part 2, no. 122). Edited and translated in Gillet 2023, based
on autopsy and photographs (by Valérie Gillet, 2018).

This digital edition by Valérie Gillet and Emmanuel Francis.

### Primary

[SII19] Srinivasa Rao, G.V., Dines Chandra Sircar & G.S. Gai. 1967.
South-Indian inscriptions. Volume XIX: Inscriptions of Parakesarivarman.
South Indian Inscriptions 19. Delhi: Archaeological survey of India
(Manager of Publications). Page 168, item 332.

[SII32] Swaminathan, S. 2012. South Indian inscriptions. Volume XXXII:
inscriptions of the early Chola kings upto Uttama Chola. South Indian
Inscriptions 32. New Delhi: Archaeological survey of India (Director
General). Page 238, item 122.

[G] Gillet, Valérie. 2023. “Constructing temple, constructing power:
Temple reconstruction process in 10th-century Tamil-speaking South with
special emphasis on Govindapputtur.” In: The Routledge Handbook of Hindu
Temples. By Himanshu Prabha Ray, Salila Kulshreshtha & Uthara Suvrathan.
London: Routledge India, pp. 57–95. DOI: 10.4324/9781003097709-6. [URL].
Page 80, item 8.

### Secondary

ARIE 1928–29. Annual report on epigraphy for the year 1928-1929. Edited
by S. V. Viswanatha. Madras: Government Press, 1930. Page TBC,
appendixes B/1928-1929, item 165.