Kōvintapputtūr (Govindapputtūr), Gaṅgājaṭādhara temple, time of Rājakesarivarman, year 7

Editors: Valérie Gillet, Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00525.

Summary: On the upper part of the base on the western side of the central projection of the northern façade of the sanctuary. Regnal year 7 of Kōrājarājakesarivarman = Rājarāja I (circa 992 CE).

Hand description:

Language: Tamil.

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

Version: 2025-07-16 14:38 (945c2a7), last modified 2025-07-02 15:42 (fc93961).

⟨1⟩ kō-Irājarā‡ja-kē(ca)ri-⟨pa⟩nmakki yāṇṭu 7-vatu

va(ṭa)-karai-brahmadeyam p(e)riya śrī-(vā)[ṉa]vaṉ-mahā-devi-[catu]⟨r⟩vveti-maṅkalattu ⟨2⟩ śrī-vija‡ya-maṅkala-tēvaṟku śrī-vimāṉam ka[l]lā⟨l⟩ Eḻunt-aruḷḷuvitta Uṭaiyār perun-tiṟattu ku[vaḷḷāla]m-uṭaiyaṉ Am⟨3⟩palava‡ṉ pa(ḻu)vūr (ṉa)kka¡ṉṉ!⟨ṉ⟩-āṉa Irā[ja-]rāja-palla⟨va⟩r(ai)ya(ṉ) [3+] Ik-kōyil (vimāṉa)⟨m⟩ Eḻunt-aru¡ḷḷ!⟨ḷ⟩uvit(tu) (kū)tta-perumāḷ(u)⟨4⟩kkum [1+] ‡ Umā-bhaṭṭāla(ni)ku(m) tiru-v-āparaṇattuku vara-k kāṭṭiṉa [5+] niṟai poṉ Iru-nūṟṟu-k ka(ḻ)¿(aint)?⟨añc⟩(u) [3+] tti(l vai)⟨5⟩ttatu ‡ [1+]

Translation by Gillet 2023

(1) [This is the] 7th year of Kōrājarākesarivarman.

(1–5) Rājarājapallavaraiyaṉ alias Ampalavaṉ Paḻuvūr Nakkaṉ, lord (uṭaiyaṉ) of Ku[vaḷḷālam], of the superior grade (peruntiṟattu) of the Lord (uṭaiyār), who graciously caused to raise (eḻuntaruḷḷuvitta) in stone the sanctuary (śrī-vimāṉam) for Śrī-Vijayamaṅgalatēvar of big Śrī-Vā[ṉa]vaṉ-mahādevi-[catur]vedimaṅgala, a brahmadeya of the northern bank; having graciously caused to raise (eḻuntaruḷḷuvittu) the sanctuary (vimāṉam) of this temple (ikkōyil), the weight of two hundred kaḻañcus of gold […] sent for the jewels (tiruvāparaṇattuku) for Kūttaperumāḷ and Umābhaṭṭāl, were given […]

Commentary

There is no svasti śrī at the beginning of this inscription.

Bibliography

Reported in ARIE 1928-1929 (ARIE/1928-1929/B/1928-1929/163).

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

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 and Uthara Suvrathan. London: Routledge India, pp. 57–95. [URL]. Page 89, item 15.

Secondary

ARIE 1928-1929. 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 163.

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