# Kōvintapputtūr / Govindapputtūr, Gaṅgājaṭādhara temple, time of
Rājakesarivarman, year 7

Valérie Gillet and Emmanuel Francis

Authors of digital edition: Valérie Gillet, Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00525

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

File path: DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00525.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 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).

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## Edition

⟨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 1928–29 (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 & Uthara Suvrathan.
London: Routledge India, pp. 57–95. DOI: 10.4324/9781003097709-6. [URL].
Page 89, item 15.

### 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 163.