Kōvintapputtūr (Govindapputtūr), Gaṅgājaṭādhara temple, time of Parakesarivarman, year 12 author of digital edition Valérie Gillet Emmanuel Francis DHARMA Paris, CEIAS DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00514 DHARMAbase

Middle inscription on the western wall section of the southern façade of the shrine. Regnal year 12 of Kōpparakesarivarman = probably Uttamacōḻa (circa 983 CE).

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svasti śrī

kō-p-para-kēsari-panmarkku yāṇṭu 10 2-Āvatu

vaṭa-karai-brahmadeyam periya śrī-vāṉavan -mahā-devi-catuvvedi-maṅkalattu śrī-vijaiya-maṅkalattu mahā-devaṟkku It-tiru-k-kaṟaḷi ceyvitta Ammpalavaṉ paḻuvūr nakkaṉ-āṉa śrī-vikkirama-cōḻa-mārāyaṉ cantrādittavaṟ vaitta noṉtā-viḷakku 4 nālum

Oru viḷakkukku nicatam Uḻakku neykku Āṭu toṇṇūṟ' āṟ' āka nālu viḷakkukku ney nicata m nāḻikku Āṭu muṉ-ṉūṟṟu Eṇpattu nālu cantrādittavaṟ vaitta cāvā mūvā-p pēr-āṭu

Ivai panmāheśvara-rakṣai .

Ammpalavaṉ Ampalavaṉ

Fortune! Prosperity!

This is the 12th year of Kōpparakesarivarman.

For Mahādeva of Śrī Vijaiyamaṅgalam of big Śrī Vāṉavan-mahādevi-catturvedimaṅgalam, a brahmadeya on the northern bank, Ampalavaṉ Paḻuvūr Nakkaṉ alias Śrī Vikramacōḻa Mārāyaṉ, who made ceyvitta this holy stone temple ittirukkaṟṟaḷi, gave for 4, four, perpetual lamps, as long as the sun and the moon endure.

At the rate of ninety-six goats for one uḻakku of ghee every day for one lamp, three hundred and eighty-four goats for one nāḻi of ghee every day for four lamps, as long as the sun and the moon endure, he gave those 384 non dying non ageing great goats.

Those are under the protection of the Panmāheśvaras.

Reported in (ARIE/1928-1929/B/1928-1929/169).

Edited in (SII 19.314), in (SII 32, part 2, no. 103). Edited and translated in , based on autopsy and photographs (by Valérie Gillet, 2018).

This digital edition by Valérie Gillet and Emmanuel Francis.

157 314 217-218 103 75 4 TBC B/1928-1929 169