SOUTH INDIAN INSCRIPTIONS VOLUME XII—PART I THE PALLAVAS

⟨SIIv12p0i0001⟩ No. 1. (C.P. No. 3 of 1915-1916). ŌṀGŌḌU GRANT OF VIJAYA-SKANDAVARMAN (II): 33RD YEAR.

This Sanskrit charter issued by the king Mahārāja Vijaya-Skandavarman, on the 13th day of the third fortnight of winter in the 33rd year, from the royal camp Tāmbrāpa, registers the grant of the village Ōṁgōḍu-grāma in the Karmmā-rāshṭra as a sāttvika-gift (i.e. without any motive) to Gōlaśarman of the Kāśyapa-gōtra, a student of two Vēdas and well versed in the six Aṅgas. The king's genealogy is traced from his great-grandfather Kumāravishṇu whose son and grandson were Skandavarman and Vīravarman respectively.

Published in Epigraphia Indica, Vol. XV, pp. 251 ff.

⟨SIIv12p0i0002⟩ No. 2. (C.P. No. 1 of 1905-1906). CHENDALŪR GRANT OF KUMĀRAVISHṆU (III): 2ND YEAR.

This is a Sanskrit copper-plate record issued from Kāñchīpura in the 2nd year of the reign of the Pallava king, Mahārāja Kumāravishṇu (III) who was the son of Mahārāja Buddhavarman, the grandson of Mahārāja Kumāravishṇu (II) and the great-grandson of Mahārāja Skandavarman. The genealogy 1adopted by Rao Bahadur Krishnamacharlu is here followed. The two previous kings of the name Kumāravishṇu were the father and son of Skandavarman. The object of the present grant is to record the royal gift of a field in the village Chendalūra in Kavachakārabhōga, a subdivision of Kammāṅka-rāshṭra, to a Brāhmaṇa named Bhavaskandatrāta of the Kauṇḍinya-gōtra and the Chhandōga-sūtra.

Published in Epigraphia Indica, Vol. VIII, pp. 234 ff.

⟨SIIv12p0i0003⟩ No. 3. (C.P. No. 4 of 1915-1916). ŌṀGŌḌU GRANT OF SIṀHAVARMAN: 4TH YEAR.

This is a Sanskrit charter issued by Dharmamahārāja Siṁhavarman 2of the Bhāradvāja-gōtra, in his 4th year, in the month of Vaiśākha, śukla-paksha, pañchamī, registering a gift of the village Ōṁgōḍu in Karmmā-rāshṭra to the scholar Dēvaśarman, a resident of Kuṇḍūr, who belonged to the Kāśyapa-gōtra and Chhandōga-sūtra. As the same village was the object of grant in the previous charter of Vijaya-Skandavarman, 3it is possible that that donee, Gōlaśarman had probably died without issue and thus necessitated its reconferment on Dēvaśarman of the Kāśyapa-gōtra, who was probably a member of the collateral branch of the original donee's family.

The king is stated to have been the son of Yuva-Mahārāja Vishṇugōpa, grandson of Mahārāja Skandavarman and great-grandson of Mahārāja Vīravarman.

As the characters in which the record is incised are later, i.e., of about the 7th century A.D., it has been surmised that it is a later copy of an earlier document.

Published in Epigraphia Indica, Vol. XV, pp. 254 ff. ⟨Page 2⟩

⟨SIIv12p0i0004⟩ No. 4. (C.P. No. 1 of 1905). PĪKIRA GRANT OF SIṀHAVARMAN: 5TH YEAR.

This Sanskrit grant was issued from the royal camp at Mēnmātura, in the 5th year of the reign of the Pallava king Mahārāja Siṁhavarman, son of Yuva-Mahārāja Vishṇugōpa, grandson of Mahārāja Skandavarman and great-grandson of Mahārāja Vīravarman. It registers the grant of the village Pīkira in Muṇḍa-rāshṭra, to Vilāsaśarman of the Kāśyapa-(gōtra) and of the Taittirīya-(śākhā).

Published in Epigraphia Indica, Vol. VIII, pp. 161 ff.

⟨SIIv12p0i0005⟩ No. 5. (C.P. No. 1 of 1933-34). VIḺAVAṬṬI GRANT OF SIṀHAVARMAN: 10TH YEAR.

This is a copper plate grant of the Pallava king Siṁhavarman, engraved in archaic characters on five plates strung together by a ring bearing a circular seal with the Pallava emblem of a couchant bull facing the proper left and another figure resembling an anchor above it. The inscription opens with an invocation to Bhagavat (Vishṇu), like the Māṅgaḷūr and Pīkira grants of the same king. The genealogy of Siṁhavarman, son of Yuva-Mahārāja Vishṇugōpa, is traced from Vīravarman, the great-grandfather. The record is dated in the 10th year of the king in the month of Śrāvaṇa, śu., pañchamī and registers a royal grant of the village Viḻavaṭṭi in Muṇḍa-rāshṭra with all the taxes due on it, to Vishṇuśarman of the Gautama-gōtra and the Chhandōga-(sūtra), for securing long life, strength of arms and victory to the king.

From this record it is learnt that the king collected taxes from metal and leather workers, cloth-dealers, rope-jugglers or dancers, Ājīvikas, water-diviners, weavers, gamblers, barbers, etc.

The grant was issued from Paddukkara which has been identified with Paḍugupāḍu in the Kovur taluk of the Nellore district. The oral order of the king regarding this gift was committed to writing by the Rahasyādhikṛita (Private Secretary) Achyuta.

The village Viḻavaṭṭi in Muṇḍa-rāshṭra has been identified with either Vavvēru where the plates were discovered, or with greater probability, with Viḍavalūru, both situated in the Kovur taluk of the Nellore district.

Published 1in Epigraphia Indica, Vol. XXIV, p. 296 ff.

⟨SIIv12p0i0006⟩ No. 6. (C.P. No. 3 of 1913-14). CHURĀ GRANT OF VIJAYA-VISHṆUGŌPAVARMAN.

This copper-plate grant belongs to the reign of Dharmma-Mahārāja Vijaya-Vishṇugōpavarman (II), son of Siṁhavarman, grandson of Mahārāja Vishṇugōpavarman and great-grandson of Kandavarman(i.e., Skandavarman) and it registers the grant of the village Churā in Karmmā-rāshṭra to a Brahman named Chēsamiśarman of the Kāśyapa-gōtra and a resident of Kuṇḍūr. 2The donee was the son of Dvēdaya-Vṛiddhaśarman and the grandson of Vishṇuśarman. The record bears no regnal year and was issued on the day of Uttarāyaṇa from the royal camp at Vijaya-Palātkaṭa (i.e., Palakkaḍa).

As the Sanskrit language used in the record is faulty and as the characters in which it is engraved are slightly later than those of the Māṅgaḷūr and Pīkira grants of Siṁhavarman, it is possible that this is a later copy of an earlier document.

Published in Epigraphia Indica, Vol. XXIV, pp. 141 ff. ⟨Page 3⟩

⟨SIIv12p0i0007⟩ No. 7. (A.R. No. 354 of 1904). KUḌIMIYĀMALAI, PUDUKKOTTAI STATE. ON A ROCK TO THE SOUTH OF THE MĒLAKKŌYIL TEMPLE.

This inscription which is engraved in the Pallava-Grantha characters of the 7th century A.D., consists of a musical treatise composed by a royal disciple of Rudrāchārya. Though the name of the king is not mentioned, the characters of the record as well as the title ‘Saṅkīrṇajāti’ assumed by the Pallava king Mahēndravarman whose inscriptions are also found in the region round Trichinopoly, have led to the attribution of this record to the same Pallava monarch, who, we know, achieved distinction in the realm of architecture, literature and drama. A little to the north of this inscription, over the Valampuri-Gaṇēśa image is engraved the word ‘parivādini-ē,’ meaning a lute with seven strings ‘only’, which indicates that the musical instrument intended for the notations used in this record was the Vīṇā.

Published in Epigraphia Indica, Vol. XII, pp. 231 ff.

⟨SIIv12p0i0007A⟩ No. 7A. (A.R. No. 386 of 1906). TIRUMAYYAM, PUDUKKOTTAI STATE. ON THE NORTH AND SOUTH WALLS OF THE ROCK-CUT ŚIVA. TEMPLE.

This is a fragmentary record engraved in Pallava-Grantha characters of the 7th century A.D. A major portion of the inscription is erased, but from the preserved portion, the names of musical notes such as gāndhāram, pañchamam, dhaivatam, nishādam etc., can be read. A certain order is noticeable in the arrangement of the notes in seven sections with subsections. Unfortunately the subsections have been so erased as to make it impossible to follow the method adopted here. As the palaeography of the inscription resembles that of the Kuḍimiyāmalai epigraph, this record also may be attributed to the time of Mahēndravarman l.

Text.

⟨1⟩ namaśśivā[ya]

⟨2⟩ ṛṣabham

⟨3⟩ gāndhāram

⟨4⟩ pañcamam

⟨5⟩ ghaivatam

⟨6⟩ [ni]ṣādam

⟨7⟩ madhyamam1 ⟨Page 4⟩

⟨SIIv12p0i0008⟩ No. 8. (A.R. No. 411 of 1904). TRICHINOPOLY, TRICHINOPOLY TALUK, TRICHINOPOLY DISTRICT. ON THE BEAM AND PILLARS IN THE UPPER CAVE ON ‘THE ROCK.’

Of the two monolithic caves, one at the foot and the other half-way up, of ‘the rock’ at Trichinopoly, the latter alone contains inscriptions, two of which, published in South Indian Inscriptions, Vol. I, pages 29 and 30, state that the cave (upper) was constructed by Guṇabhara (i.e.) Mahēndravarman I. A verse inscription (No. 9 below) engraved on the beam over the inner row of pillars here, calls the cave ‘Laḷitāṅkura-Pallavēśvara-gṛiham’ after the title ‘Laḷitāṅkura’ of this king, which also occurs in his record at Pallāvaram. His birudas are engraved in bold Pallava-Grantha and Tamil characters on all the pillars in the upper cave at Trichinopoly. The outer wall of the sanctuary in this cave seems to have contained an inscription, but only a few letters of its first line are now visible, the rest being completely damaged. The name ‘Mahēndravikrama’ is found mentioned in the inscription on the extreme left outer pillar and most of the birudas occurring here are also found in the records of this king at Pallāvaram and other rock-cut excavations of his time. Some of these titles are unintelligible and appear to be Telugu in origin. The bottom of each of the four pillars contains a biruda in the Pallava-Tamil characters, of which only two are now clear, viz. Piṇapiṇakku and Chitti[rakāra]ppuli.

It is of interest to note that the birudas are alphabetically arranged and so engraved on the front face of the pillars. The same arrangement, though followed in the Pallāvaram inscription, is not so conspicuous there as in the present record (plates I and II).

The characters employed in the present inscriptions are of an ornate nature and provide an interesting contrast with the simpler variety of letters found in the Pallāvaram record of the same king, where almost all these birudas are repeated.

A description of the cave is found in the Memoir of the Archaeological Survey of India, No. 17, pages 13-15.

Text.

Outer row of pillars in the Upper Cave.

Right pilaster.

⟨0⟩ vañjavalava

First pillar.

Top.

⟨0⟩ sarvvama[ṭa]

Middle.

⟨0⟩ ta1 daṇḍa

⟨0⟩ tanumpunomi

⟨0⟩ tukānu

⟨0⟩ to kā

⟨0⟩ nityavinītaḥ

⟨0⟩ nirapekṣaḥ

⟨0⟩ nilvuleneyambu

⟨0⟩ naihikāmutrikaḥ

⟨0⟩ nivambu

⟨0⟩ nayambu

⟨0⟩ na ku

⟨0⟩ narāpaśa

Bottom.

⟨0⟩ da••• ku

Second pillar.

Top.

⟨0⟩ saṁkīrṇṇajātiḥ ||— ⟨Page 5⟩

Middle.

⟨0⟩ virasaḥ

⟨0⟩ vyavāsthataḥ

⟨0⟩ vyavasāyaḥ

⟨0⟩ anityaṁrāgaḥ

⟨0⟩ anumānaḥ

⟨0⟩ avanibhājanaḥ

⟨0⟩ vambu

⟨0⟩ vukā

⟨0⟩ [vḷā]pu

Bottom.

⟨0⟩ ci[tti]•• ppu[li]

Third pillar.

Top.

⟨0⟩ satyasanghaḥ |

Middle.

⟨0⟩ kaṭuṁkṭāyu

⟨0⟩ ka[ṭu]ntarambu

⟨0⟩ ka mpu

⟨0⟩ abhimukhaḥ

⟨0⟩ akaruṇaḥ

⟨0⟩ alavala

⟨0⟩ vesātha

⟨0⟩ vaṁki

⟨0⟩ vaṁkaḥ

Bottom.

⟨0⟩ piṇapiṇakku

Fourth pillar.

Top.

⟨0⟩ [laḷi]tāṁkuraḥ

Middle.

⟨0⟩ maṁku

⟨0⟩ kaṣṭa

⟨0⟩ ku mbu

⟨0⟩ vambara

⟨0⟩ [ca]lambu

⟨0⟩ kilambu

⟨0⟩ mlāyu

⟨0⟩ vāve ṭi

⟨0⟩ emuku

⟨0⟩ ethi

⟨0⟩ kuhakaḥ

⟨0⟩ [vu]nātha

Bottom.

⟨0⟩ kucagrāṇa

Left pilaster.

⟨0⟩ lakṣitaḥ Inner row of pillars in the upper cave.1

Right pilaster.

⟨0⟩ guṇabhara[ḥ]

First pillar.

Top.

⟨0⟩ aṁkkapāsu[]

Middle.

⟨0⟩ to• ⟨Page 6⟩

Second pillar.

Top.

⟨0⟩ āseṭṭiḥ āyaṁ[ti]ḥ

Middle.

⟨0⟩ te

Third pillar.

Top.

⟨0⟩ āluptakāmaḥ

Middle.

⟨0⟩ te[tha]

Fourth pillar

⟨0⟩ [āhāryyabuddhi]ḥ

Middle.

⟨0⟩ ka

Left pilaster.

Damaged. ON THE INNER FACE OF THE SAME PILASTER.

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] mahendravikramaḥ

⟨2⟩ mattavilāsaḥ mayamayakku

⟨3⟩ ma mā mahāmegha

⟨4⟩ manprāvu miḍelcu

⟨5⟩ mūrkhavijja moggara

⟨6⟩ [mahice]ththakāri

⟨7⟩ •[panda] ca••[ce]mu

⟨8⟩ cu[]••• sā[rththaḥ]

⟨9⟩ ••• [samba]ruṭu

⟨10⟩ [viḍe]••• nvu

⟨11⟩ damaged

⟨12⟩ ••••• ṇāḷa1

⟨SIIv12p0i0009⟩ No. 9. (A.R. No. 411-A of 1904). ON THE BEAM ABOVE THE INNER ROW OF PILLARS IN THE UPPER CAVE.

This is a Sanskrit verse engraved in Pallava-Grantha characters 2stating that the (upper) cave called ‘Laḷitāṅkura-Pallavēśvaragṛiham’ was constructed by the Pallava king Laḷitāṅkura (i.e. Mahēndravarman I).

⟨1⟩ iti jagati viditanāmnā laḷitaṁ laḷitāṁkureṇa [pallavapatinā] [|*]

⟨2⟩ kṛtinā kāritametallaḷu3tāṁkurapallaveśvaragṛhamma[hitam] [||*]

⟨SIIv12p0i0010⟩ No. 10. (A.R. No. 51 of 1905). DAḶAVĀṈŪR, GINGEE TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT. ON A PILLAR IN THE ROCK-CUT CAVE.

This epigraph consisting of a Sanskrit verse, states that the (cave) temple on the hill was executed by the order of king Narēndra alias Śatrumalla and named ‘Śatrumallēśvarālaya.’ Mahēndravarman I had the title ‘Śatrumalla’ and according to the present inscription he had also the biruda ‘Narēndra’. It may be pointed out here that the Vāyalūr inscription gives the epithet ‘Narēndrasiṁha’ to Rājasiṁha; but the simpler and earlier style of the Daḷavāṉūr temple, however, precludes its assignment to the time of this king.

This cave temple is described in the Memoir of the Archaeological Survey of India, No. 17, pages 12-13.

Published in Epigraphia Indica, Vol. XII, page 225. ⟨Page 7⟩

⟨SIIv12p0i0011⟩ No. 11. (A.R. No. 50 of 1905). ON THE SAME PILLAR.

This inscription in Tamil verse states that Narēndrapōttaraiyaṉ constructed, to the south of Veṇbēḍu, a Śiva temple called Śatrumallēśvarālaya. 1The composer of the verse was Brammamaṅgalavaṉ Śellaṉ Śivadāsaṉ, a native of the village.

It may be noted that the Tamil characters in which this inscription is engraved are not so archaic as to be attributed to the period of Mahēndravarman I, but could be assigned to the 9th century A.D. It is, therefore, probable that this Tamil translation in verse of the previous record was composed by a local poet of the 9th century and was got engraved on the same pillar of the cave.

Published in Epigraphia Indica, Vol. XII, pp. 225 ff.

⟨SIIv12p0i0012⟩ No. 12. (A.R. No. 51 of 1905). MAṆḌAGAPPAṬṬU, VILLUPURAM TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT. ON A PILLAR IN THE MAṆḌAPA OF THE ROCK-CUT CAVE.

This is an important inscription in Sanskrit verse which states that the rock-cut shrine was caused to be made by king Vichitrachitta for the enshrinement of the three gods Brahmā, Īśvara and Vishṇu, without the use of bricks, timber, metal and mortar. Since from Pallava inscriptions we know that Mahēndravarman I had the biruda ‘Vichitra-chitta’ (i.e.) curious or fancy-minded, this cave must have been excavated by him.

Published in Epigraphia Indica, Vol. XVII, page 17.

⟨SIIv12p0i0013⟩ No. 13. (A.R. No. 369 of 1908). PALLĀVARAM, SAIDAPET TALUK, CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT. ON THE BEAMS IN THE ROCK-CUT CAVE NOW USED AS A ‘DARGA’.

This inscription is engraved in Pallava-Grantha characters in a single line on the beams of the upper and lower verandahs of the rock-cut cave (plates III and IV.) It gives a long list of birudas, some of them obscure in their import, of the Pallava king Mahēndravikrama (I) with whose name the inscription commences. These titles are in Sanskrit, Tamil and Telugu and indicate the character, erudition and personal tastes of the king. Some of these birudas are also found in the upper cave at Trichinopoly (No. 8 above).

The rock-cut temple is described in the Memoir of the Archaeological Survey of India, No. 17, page 16.

1 śrī mahendravikramaḥ | mattavilāsaḥ | ceththakārī | vicitracittaḥ | ciḷundu | ceruḷuccemprūru | āluptakāmaḥ | viṭemāyaḥ | da[rppa]viṣaḥ | lokavaśyaḥ | [davā]gniḥ | kalahapriyaḥ | laḷitāṅkuraḥ | [mayamakkāru] | citrakārappuli | nivambu | nilvuleneyyambu | vampu | vukā 2| vaṅka(ḥ)mpu | kāththu | kathumpu | kaṭuṁkṭāyu | vile[yā]ḷa | palapāṭi | ventulavittu | alarvale | āsiṭṭiḥ | arkkapā[su]mbu | daṇḍikkalla | vāyiveṇṭi | yamuku | saṅkīrṇṇajati[ḥ] | [e]ththu |

2 iṭuka pisugu piṭuvā perinthi3prakāraṇa[ḥ] pravṛttamā[tra]ḥ pukāpiḍuku pasarambu [ananyaḥ] pavi[thuḥ] [pa]kaḷi bāku bujjanakanthu bhrāntaḥ [o]ththuḥ otha [uddha]tiḥ upamānaḥ ummākuṁḍu kāmārjjavaḥ kaṭuḥkṛākaṁ kaṭunterambu guṇabharaḥ teppu tāḷiva tathudaṇḍa tanumpu[no]mi tukānuḥ to[ththu] toṭa teththa [śrīdṛḍhabhāktiḥ] dunuvāryya [uḍukāsiṭṭi]•• dhdharmmapāḷakaḥ•• ⟨Page 8⟩

3 satyasandhaḥ lakṣitaḥ iṣṭaduṣṭabhṛṣṭacaritaḥ naihikāmutrikaḥ nayambu nathuku mahāmegha ma[nprā]vu mathumāthā vethicutho mūkhavajjaḥ mogga••[ śoḷacu ] cumbu paṭu[si]ddha caḷisappuruṭṭhu vesā vu[sātha] vambara [vāve ṭi] ••• vaṁki vḷā[ṣu] verasaḥ vyavasthitaḥ vyavasāyaḥ anityarāgaḥ avanibhājanaḥ anumānaḥ abhimukhaḥ ākaraḥ āhāryyabuddhiḥ āyata••••

⟨SIIv12p0i0014⟩ No. 14. (A.R. No. 82 of 1921). BIG CONJEEVERAM, CONJEEVERAM TALUK, CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT. ON A PILLAR IN A RUINED MAṆḌAPA NEAR THE 1000-PILLARED MAṆḌAPA IN THE THIRD PRĀKĀRA OF THE ĒKĀMRĒŚVARA TEMPLE.

Like the previous record this inscription also enumerates a few birudas of Mahēndravarman I (plate IV.) As this inscription is found on a detached pillar, it is evident that it must have formed part of a structural temple of the time of Mahēndravarman I. which has now disappeared.

West face.

⟨1⟩ e

⟨2⟩ kucagrāṇa

⟨3⟩ mahāmegha

⟨4⟩ dṛḍhabhaktiḥ

South face.

⟨5⟩ abhimukha

⟨6⟩ citrakārapuli

⟨7⟩ ku mbu

East face.

⟨8⟩ curmbu

⟨9⟩ vaṁkaṁbu

⟨10⟩ vnā [pegu]

North face.

⟨11⟩ pisugu1

⟨12⟩ vambara

⟨13⟩ bhrāntaḥ akari NARASIMHAVARMAN I.

⟨SIIv12p0i0015⟩ No. 15. (A.R. Nos. 512-528 of 1907). MAHĀBALIPURAM, CHINGLEPUT TALUK, CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT. IN THE DHARMARĀJA-RATHA.

Like the Mahēndravāḍi and Śīyamaṅgalam labels of the Pallava king Mahēndravarman I, the birudas of Narasiṁhavarman I are engraved in Pallava-Grantha characters on the Dharmarāja-ratha. As usual, the list of surnames commences with the actual name of the king Śrī-Narasiṁha. The birudas give an indication of the king's power, wealth, valour, personal charm, ambition, liberality etc. As the temple is called ‘Atyantakāma-Pallavēśvaragṛiham’ in a label engraved in florid characters resembling those found in the Gaṇēśa rock-cut temple in the same village attributable to Paramēśvaravarman I, it may be presumed that the work on this ‘ratha’ was continued in the reign of Paramēśvaravarman and also in that of his son Rājasiṁha, considering the architectual evolution noticeable here from the simple rockcut cave temple of Mahēndravarman I's time. This ratha is described in the Memoir of the Archaeological Survey of India, No. 33, p. 25 ff.

Published in South Indian Inscriptions, Vol. I, Nos. 1-17 and Epigraphia Indica, Vol. X, pages 5-8. ⟨Page 9⟩

⟨SIIv12p0i0016⟩ No. 16. (A.R. No. 65 of 1909). TIRUKKAḺUKKUṈṞAM, CHINGLEPUT TALUK, CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT. ON THE SECOND PILLAR IN THE UPPER VERANDAH OF THE ORUKAL-MAṆḌAPA ON THE HILL.

This is a damaged record engraved in Tamil characters, belonging to Narasiṅgappōttaraśar ‘who took Vātāpi (Bādāmi)’ and it mentions the god of ‘Mūlasthāna on the hill.’ The Mūlasthāna temple, according to a record 1of Rājakēsarivarman Āditya I, existed from the time of Skandaśishya whose endowment to it was confirmed by Vātāpikoṇḍa Narasiṁhavarman. Skandaśishya may be identified with Skandasēna the excavator of the cave at Vallam in the Chingleput district. The rock-cut maṇḍapa where the present inscription is found, is described in detail in the Epigraphical Report for 1909, page 72 and in the Memoir of the Archaeological Survey of India, No. 17, pages 19-21.

It may be pointed out here that this is the third early Pallava inscription engraved in Tamil characters, so far known, the other two being those found in the caves at Vallam in the Chingleput district, 2and at Tirumayyam in the Pudukkottai State. 3

Published in the Epigraphical Report for 1932-1933, page 55. 4

⟨SIIv12p0i0017⟩ No. 17. (A.R. No. 661 of 1922). MAHĀBALIPURAM, CHINGLEPUT TALUK, CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT. ON THE TOP OF A NICHE IN THE NORTH WING OF THE VERANDAH OF THE ROCK-CUT TEMPLE OF ĀDIVARĀHA-PERUMĀḶ.

This label in Pallava-Grantha characters reads ‘Śrī-Siṁhaviṇṇa-pōttrāthirājan’. It is engraved above a group of sculptures representing a king seated on a cushioned stool and flanked by two standing images of his queens. On a consideration of the palaeography of this label, the late Mr. Krishna Sastri concluded that the king represented here was Narasiṁhavishṇu, ‘the conqueror of Vātāpi’. Subsequent writers have, however, identified him with Siṁhavishṇu, the father of Mahēndravarman I. But the name Paramēśvara-Mahāvarāha-Vishṇugṛiha applied to this cave in a record of the Chōḷa king Rājēndradēva, proves clearly that it is connected with Paramēśvaravarman I. Since a statue of Mahēndravarman in a standing posture pointing to his two queens the deity inside the newly excavated cave is also found here, it may be inferred that the work on this cave was started by him. If so Paramēśvaravarman after whom the cave was called, must have completed the work started by his predecessor. The statues found in this cave may, therefore, be taken to represent Narasiṁhavishṇu, ‘the Conqueror of Vātāpi’ and his son Mahēndravarman II.

Published in the Memoir of the Archaeological Survey of India: No. 26. MAHENDRAVARMAN II.

⟨SIIv12p0i0018⟩ No. 18. (A.R. No. 662 of 1922). ON THE TOP OF A NICHE IN THE SOUTH WING OF THE SAME VERANDAH.

This label, also in Pallava-Grantha characters, gives the name ‘Śrī-Mahēndra-Pōttrāthirājan’. The niche contains the standing image of a king accompanied by his two queens. It has been stated above that the king may be identified with Mahēndravarman II.

Published, Ibid. ⟨Page 10⟩ PARAMESVARAVARMAN I.

⟨SIIv12p0i0019⟩ No. 19. (A.R. No. 529 of 1907). MAHĀBALIPURAM, CHINGLEPUT TALUK, CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT. IN THE THIRD STOREY OF THE DHARMARĀJA-RATHA, WEST SIDE.

This is a label inscription in Pallava-Grantha characters giving the name of the temple as ‘Atyantakāma-Pallavēśvara-gṛiham’. Since the script of this label approximates closely to that of No. 20 below, but differs from that of the other labels in the same ‘ratha’, Atyantakāma referred to here may be taken as a biruda of Paramēśvaravarman I. The Dharmarāja-ratha is described in the Memoir of the Archaeological Survey of India, No. 33, pp. 25 ff.

Published in Epigraphia Indica, Vol. X, No. 18, page 8.

⟨SIIv12p0i0020⟩ No. 20. (A.R. No. 531 of 1907). IN THE ‘GAṆĒŚA’ TEMPLE IN THE SAME VILLAGE.

This inscription is also engraved in the same script as the above and consists of 11 verses in Sanskrit praising the king Atyantakāma who built this temple for Śiva and called it ‘Atyantakāma-Pallavēśvara-gṛiham,’ after his surname. Atyantakāma is here given the birudas, Śrīnidhi, Śrībhara, Raṇajaya, Taruṇāṅkura, Kāmarāga, etc. From the ślēsha used in the epithets Chitramāya, Guṇabhājana, Svastha, Niruttara and Paramēśvara which are applicable both to Śiva and the king, the late Dr. Hultzsch concluded that the actual name of the king was Paramēśvara and that he was identical with Paramēśvaravarman I.

Published in South Indian Inscriptions, Vol. I, No. 18 and Epigraphia Indica Vol. X, No. 20, pp. 8-9.

⟨SIIv12p0i0021⟩ No. 21. (A.R. No. 532 of 1907). IN THE ‘DHAMARĀJA-MAṆḌAPA’ IN THE SAME VILLAGE.

This inscription is identical in contents with the previous record and proves that the cave temple now called ‘Dharmarāja-maṇḍapa’ was originally a shrine dedicated to Śiva. It was called ‘Atyantakāma-Pallavēśvara-gṛiham’, after one of the surnames of Paramēśvaravarman. As from the style 1of its architecture, this maṇḍapa may be assigned to Mahēndravarman I's time, it is probable, as also suggested by Mr. A.H.Longhurst (Memoir of the Archl. Sur. No. 33, page 10), that the present inscription was incised later by Paramēśvaravarman I who probably completed it.

Published in South Indian Inscriptions, Vol. I, No. 19, p. 6 and Epigraphia Indica, Vol. X, No. 21, pages 10 and 11.

⟨SIIv12p0i0022⟩ No. 22. (A.R. No. 533 of 1907). IN THE ‘RĀMĀNUJA-MAṆḌAPA’ IN THE SAME VILLAGE.

This inscription consists of the imprecatory verse found at the end of the two previous inscriptions (Nos. 20 and 21 above) and engraved in florid characters, similar to those used in the ‘Gaṇēśa’ temple. It is, therefore, possible that the rock-cut cell which may have been excavated during the time of the Pallava king Paramēśvāravarman I or a little earlier, was originally intended to be a temple for Śiva.

Published in South Indian Inscriptions, Vol. I, No. 20, page 6 and Epigraphia Indica, Vol. X, page 11. ⟨Page 11⟩

⟨SIIv12p0i0023⟩ No. 23. (A.R. No. 530 of 1907). ON A PILLAR OF THE ROCK-CUT MAṆḌAPA SOUTH-WEST OF THE ‘GŌPIS’ CHURN’ IN THE SAME VILLAGE.

This inscription in Pallava-Grantha characters reads ‘Śrī-Vāmāṅkuśa’. It is not known to whom this title is to be attributed.

Published in Epigraphia Indica, Vol. X, No. 19, p. 8.

⟨SIIv12p0i0023A⟩ No. 23A. (A.R. Nos. 105-107 of 1932-33). PŪÑJĒRI, CHINGLEPUT TALUK, CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT. ON ROCKS TO THE EAST OF THE VILLAGE.

The following seven labels are engraved in archaic Tamil and Grantha characters on a group of rocks, one of which, on account of a natural cavity in it, is locally known as ‘Noṇḍi Vīrappaṉ Kudiraitoṭṭi’. The names Kēvādaperundachchaṉ and Kollaṉ Śēmagaṉ found in this place indicate that the persons bearing these names belonged to the artisan class. One of the labels also gives the name Guṇamallaḥ. On account of their palaeographical interest, these labels, as also the one given in the previous inscription, are included here and some of them are reproduced on plate II.

⟨1⟩ kē[vā]ta peruntaccaṉ ||—

⟨2⟩ kuṇamallaḥ

⟨3⟩ payyamiḻippāṉ ||—

⟨4⟩ cātamukkiyaṉ

⟨5⟩ kaliyā[ṇi]

⟨6⟩ namaḥ tiruveṟṟiyūr ā[bhā]ja r |||—

⟨7⟩ kollaṉ s[e]makaṉ [||] NARASIMHAVARMAN II RAJASIMHA.

⟨SIIv12p0i0024⟩ No. 24. (A.R. No. 534 of 1907). IḌAIYANPANDAL NEAR ŚĀḶUVAṄKUPPAM, CHINGLEPUT TALUK, CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT. ON THE LEFT WALL OF THE ROCK-CUT MAṆḌAPA.

This inscription which consists of seven Sanskrit verses engraved in Pallava-Grantha characters, records that the cave temple was constructed by king Atiraṇachaṇḍa and that it was called ‘Atiraṇachaṇḍēśvara’ after his surname. Three of the verses in the present record are also found in Nos. 20 and 21 above and contain the birudas: Atyantakāma, Śrīnidhi, Kāmarāga and Śrībhara. Other surnames of the king were Raṇajaya, Anugraśīla, Kālakāla, Samara-Dhanaṁjaya and Saṁgrāmadhīra. Since most of these epithets including Atiraṇachaṇḍa are also applied to Rājasiṁha in his inscription at Conjeeveram, 1the present record may be assigned to him. Dr. Hultzsch took Atiraṇachaṇḍa as a title of Nandivarman Pallavamalla, 2but considering the palaeography and the architectural style of the maṇḍapa, it seems better to take it as referring to Rājasiṁha. 3

Published in South Indian Inscriptions, Vol. I, No. 21, and Epigraphia Indica, Vol. X, No. 23. ⟨Page 12⟩

⟨SIIv12p0i0025⟩ No. 25. (A.R. No. 535 of 1907). ON THE RIGHT WALL OF THE SAME ROCK-CUT MAṆḌAPA.

This is a Nāgarī copy of the first six verses of the previous inscripition.

Published in South Indian Inscriptions, Vol. I, No. 22 and Epigraphia Indica, Vol. X, No. 24.

⟨SIIv12p0i0026⟩ No. 26. (A.R. No. 368 of 1908). VĀYALŪR, CHINGLEPUT TALUK, CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT. ON A PILLAR IN THE GŌPURA OF THE VYĀGHRAPURĪŚVARA TEMPLE.

This inscription is engraved in florid Pallava-Grantha characters in the form of a helix on a cubical pillar of the Pallava type, supporting the gōpura in front of the temple. The pillar seems to have belonged to some other temple in the vicinity. Of Pallava structural monuments in the Chingleput district, only those at Mahābalipuram and Conjeeveram are known. The pillars at Vāyalūr and Tiruppōrūr 1suggest the existence of other such monuments in the district.

The present record purports to give the genealogy of Pallava kings from Brahmā down, through fifty-four generations, to king Rājasiṁha. The last verse of the inscription suggests that it was intended to perpetuate the accession of Rājasiṁha (Narasiṁha II) to the throne.

Published in Epigraphia Indica, Vol. XVIII, pages 150 and 151.

⟨SIIv12p0i0027⟩ No. 27. (A.R. No. 76 of 1909). TIRUPPŌRŪR, CHINGLEPUT TALUK, CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT. ON TWO PILLARS IN THE MAṆḌAPA IN FRONT OF THE DĒVAYĀNAIYAMMAṈ SHRINE IN THE KANDASVĀMIN TEMPLE.

This record engraved in Pallava-Grantha characters on two detached pillars, gives the birudas of a Pallava king. From the florid variety of the alphabet 2used and from the occurrence of the titles Atyantakāma, Atiraṇachaṇḍa, etc., the king may be identified with Narasiṁha II whose identical birudas are also found engraved in the Kailāsanātha temple at Conjeeveram which is definitely known to have been constructed by him. As Tiruppōrūr is close to Mahābalipuram, it is possible that the pillars belonged to a structural temple of the time of Narasiṁha II built somewhere in this locality and may have been fixed up in their present position in the Kandasvāmin temple at a later date.

First Pillar.

⟨1⟩ kāmalaḷitaḥ

⟨2⟩ kulatilakaḥ

⟨3⟩ guṇavinīta[ḥ]

⟨4⟩ dharaṇitilaka[ḥ]

⟨5⟩ jñānasāgaraḥ

⟨6⟩ tribhuvanadīpa[ḥ]

⟨7⟩ aviratadānaḥ

⟨8⟩ īśānaśara[ṇa]ḥ

Second Pillar.

⟨9⟩ pṛthivīsāraḥ

⟨10⟩ samaradhanañjaya[ḥ]

⟨11⟩ atyantakāmaḥ

⟨12⟩ abhayaṁkaraḥ

⟨13⟩ avanidivākara[ḥ]

⟨14⟩ atiraṇacaṇḍa[ḥ]

⟨15⟩ avāritavīryya[ḥ]

⟨16⟩ arikariketarī [||] ⟨Page 13⟩

⟨SIIv12p0i0028⟩ No. 28. (A.R. No. 566 of 1912). MAHĀBALIPURAM, CHINGLEPUT TALUK, CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT. ON THE PLINTHS OF TWO Balipīṭhas EXCAVATED IN THE COURTYARD OF THE SHORE TEMPLE.

This is a damaged record consisting of six Sanskṛit verses in praise of the Pallava king Rājasiṁha or Narēndrasiṁha Atyantakāma who is given a number of epithets which help to identify him with Narasiṁha II. The Shore Temple at Mahābalipuram and the Tāḷapurisvara temple at Panamalai are representative of the type of architecture that prevailed in the time of Narasimha.

Published in Epigraphia Indica, Vol. XIX, pages 107 and 108.

⟨SIIv12p0i0029⟩ No. 29. (A.R. No. 616 of 1915). PANAMALAI, VILLUPURAM TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT. ON THE NORTH, WEST AND SOUTH BASES OF THE TĀḶAPURĪŚVARA TEMPLE ON THE HILL.

This incomplete record in florid Pallava-Grantha characters gives the praśasti of king Rājasiṁha, son of Ēkamalla i.e. Paramēśvara I. From the existence of this inscription and of another consisting of a single Sanskrit verse which is identical with the last verse of the Kailāsanātha inscription of Rājasiṁha (South Indian Inscriptions, Vol. I, No. 24) and with the 3rd verse of the Shore Temple inscription of the same king at Mahābalipuram (No. 28 above), it may be presumed that the temple of Tāḷapurīśvara was constructed during his reign, A photo-litho of this record is given in the Epigraphical Report for 1916, facing page 114.

Published in Epigraphia Indica, Vol. XIX, pages 113 and 114. 1

⟨SIIv12p0i0030⟩ No. 30. (A.R. No. 618 of 1915). ON THE SIDE OF A CAVERN IN THE SAME HILL.

This is a single Sanskrit verse which is identical with the last verse of Rājasiṁha's inscription 2round the Rājasiṁhēśvara shrine in the Kailāsanātha temple at Conjeeveram. It is a benedictory verse wishing long rule for Rājasiṁha, who has the birudas: Raṇajaya, Śrībhara, Chitrakārmuka, Ēkavīra, and Śivachūḍāmaṇi. A facsimile of the inscription is given on plate I facing page 112 in the Epigraphical Report for 1916.

Published in South Indian Inscriptions, Vol. I, No. 31, p. 24. MAHĒNDRAVARMAN III.

⟨SIIv12p0i0031⟩ No. 31. (A.R. No. 1 of 1932-33). CONJEEVERAM, CONJEEVERAM TALUK, CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT. ON A SLAB FIXED IN THE NORTHERN END OF THE OKKAPIṞANDĀṈKUḶAM STREET.

This is a label inscription 3in the Pallava-Grantha script engraved on the lateral face of a stray granite slab fixed at the northern entrance into the Okkapiṟandāṉkuḷam street. From general appearance, the slab seems to have formed the lintel of a structural temple in the village. The inscription reads ‘Śrī-Mahēndravarmmēśvaragṛiham’. A similar label is also found in the same village in the Kailāsanātha temple, engraved on the two wing-stones of the steps leading to the Mahēndravarmēśvara shrine which is stated to have been built by Mahēndravarman III (S.I.I. Vol. I. p. 23). The original location of this slab may be traced to this shrine where the present lintel appears to be a later substitution or to some other shrine not far from its present position. 4

Text.

⟨1⟩ śrīmahēndravarmm[ē]śvaragṛham [||*] ⟨Page 14⟩ NANDIVARMAN II.

⟨SIIv12p0i0032⟩ No. 32. (A.R. No. 537 of 1905). TIRUVEḶḶAṞAI, LALGUDI TALUK, TRICHINOPOLY DISTRICT. ON THE THIRD PILLAR IN THE ROCK-CUT CAVE IN THE PUṆḌARĪKĀKSHA-PERUMĀḶ TEMPLE.

This inscription which is highly damaged, is dated in the 10th year of Nandivarman. It mentions a certain Viśayanalluḻā[ṉ], who may be identified with the person of the same name noticed as the elder brother of Kambaṉ Araiyaṉ, the builder of the well at Tiruveḷḷaṟai in the 4th year of Dantivarman. 1He also figures as the ājñapti of the Paṭṭattāḷmaṅgalam grant of Nandivarman II 2(No. 37 below). Hence Nandivarman of the present record may be identified with Nandivarman II Pallavamalla.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] nandiparmma kku yā[ṇṭu]

⟨2⟩ ya % pallavakulatilaka••

⟨3⟩ nandipanma ṟkku•••

⟨4⟩ [di]tta kulakētana••••

⟨5⟩ vicayanalluḻā••••

⟨6⟩ • [rai]yaṉāl ni••••

⟨7⟩ •• ni•• ḷiṭam

⟨8⟩ yā•• tiyā•••

⟨9⟩ yā••••• 3

⟨SIIv12p0i0033⟩ No. 33. (C.P. No. 10 of 1911-12). KAŚĀKUḌI PLATES OF NANDIVARMAN: 22ND YEAR.

This copper-plate charter in Grantha and Tamil characters was found at Kaśākuḍi near Kāraikāl in French India. It is dated in the 22nd year of Nandivarman II, also known as Pallavamalla, Kshatriyamalla, Nayadhīra, and Śrīdhara, and records a gift made by the king, at the request of his minister Brahmaśrīrāja, of the village Koḍukoḷḷi which was later surnamed as Ēkadhīramaṅgalam, 4to a Brāhmaṇa named Jyēshṭapāda-Sōmayājin of the Bhāradvāja-gōtra residing at Pūniya in Toṇḍāka-rāshṭra.

Published in South Indian Inscriptions, Vol. II. pp. 342 ff.

⟨SIIv12p0i0034⟩ No. 34. (A.R. No. 109 of 1932-33). PAIYAṈŪR, CHINGLEPUT TALUK AND DISTRICT. ON A ROCK NEAR THE DILAPIDATED TEMPLE OF EṬṬĪŚVARA.

This record is dated in the 37th year of Vijaya-Nandivikramavarman who, from the palaeography of the inscription and the high regnal year quoted in it, may be identified with Pallavamalla. It registers an agreement made by the gaṇa of Payiṉūr to remove annually the silt from the big tank of the village for the interest on 6,400 kāḍi of paddy received by them by the standard measure poṟ-kāl, from Nāgaṉ, a merchant of Uḻakkuṇi residing at Māmallapuram. The document is signed by Śēṭṭanandi, evidently a member of the gaṇa. The village Paiyaṉūr is very close to Mahābalipuram and the earliest epigraphical reference to ‘Māmallapuram’ is to be found in the present inscription.

It may be pointed out that the epithets ‘Vijaya’ and ‘Vikramavarman’ added to his name by Nandivarman, were invariably adopted by his successors. 5

Text.

⟨1⟩ śrī kovicaya nantivikkiramaparumaṟku yāṇṭu mu-

⟨2⟩ ppatteḻāvatu payiṉūrk kaṇattem oṭṭiyatu [||*] māma-

⟨3⟩ llapurattiliruntu vāḻum uḻakkuṇi vāṇikaṉ nākaṉ

⟨4⟩ emmurp pereri poliyūṭṭiṉāṟ ṟo[ṇ]ṭuvataṟkuk (ku)- ⟨Page 15⟩

⟨5⟩ koṭutta nel poṟkālāl āṟā-

⟨6⟩ yirattu nāṉūṟṟukkāṭi innel yāṅkaḷ

⟨7⟩ koṇṭu ivveriyi ṉiruṇun nilam ellā-

⟨8⟩ viṟṟiṉme[lu]m viṟkilum oṟṟiiṭilum paṭṭiyāṟ pa-

⟨9⟩ tiṉaṟukāṭic ceytu nel paṭṭiyo• kaṭaṉāyi inne-

⟨10⟩ llile irukāṭicce[yi]tug koṇṭu [payiṉūr a]ṉṉu nāma muḷḷa-

⟨11⟩ taṉaiyum [āṭṭāṇṭuto]ṟum eri [toṇṭuvi]ppo[m]āy•• ttiṉail [ke]-

⟨12⟩ ṭai yeṟṟukkoṇṭem itaṟku vakri ppātāṉ candrātitya (r)ruḷḷataṉaiyum

⟨13⟩ narakatti ṉiṟpāṉākavum itaṟku nallatu veṇṭi[ṉār] cantirātittiyar

⟨14⟩ uḷḷanāḷaiyum svargga [ttile] yiruppārākavum oṭṭiṉem [|*] ippaṭik kuṟi-1

⟨15⟩ yi[li]runtu••• ceṭṭanantieṉ

⟨16⟩ ••• ṭṭāme celuttiṉār aṭi [eṉ]

⟨17⟩ ṟalai melaṉa [||*]

⟨SIIv12p0i0035⟩ No. 35. (A.R. No. 154 of 1921). KUḶIDIKKI, GUDIYATTAM TALUK, NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT. ON A STONE SET UP NEAR THE RIVER.

This inscription is dated in the 52nd year of Vijaya-Nandivarman. It records the death of Gaṅgadiyaraiyar Kaṉṉāḍu Peruṅgaṅgar, (the chief) of Kaṟkāṭṭūr, who at the instance of his uncle (māmaḍi), the Bāṇa chief, fought on the occasion of the Pallava invasion against Perumānaḍigaḷ (i.e. the Western Gaṅga king), when (the fortress of) Peṇkuḻikkōṭṭai was destroyed. From the high regnal year quoted in the inscription, the king may be identified with Nandivarman Pallavamalla.

Published in Epigraphia Indica, Vol. XXII, p. 110.

⟨SIIv12p0i0036⟩ No. 36. (C.P. No. 7 of 1911-12). TAṆḌANTŌṬṬAM PLATES OF NANDIVIKRAMAVARMAN: 58TH YEAR.

This is an incomplete copper-plate record from Taṇḍantōṭṭam near Kumbhakōṇam in the Tanjore district, dated in the 58th year of Nandivarman (II). It is engraved in Grantha and Tamil characters and registers the gift of the village Dayāmukhamaṅgalam, named after the donor Dayāmukha, to 308 learned Brahmans with additional provision for worship in the Śiva and Vishṇu temples of the village and for reciting the Mahābhārata in the temple hall. The praśasti in the grant was drawn up by Paramēśvara surnamed Uttara-kāraṇika. The seal of this record is published on plate VII for the first time now.

Published in South Indian Inscriptions, Vol. II, pp. 517 ff.

⟨SIIv12p0i0037⟩ No. 37. (C.P. No. 5 of 1922-23).

PAṬṬATTĀḶMAṄGALAM GRANT OF NANDIVARMAN: 61ST YEAR.

Like the previous record, this is also engraved in Grantha and Tamil characters. It is dated in the 61st year of Vijaya-Nandivikramavarman and registers a grant of 16 vēli of land which, together with the 24 vēli granted previously, was constituted into a village under the name Paṭṭattāḷmaṅgalam and given to a number of Brāhmaṇas at the instance of Maṅgala-Nāḍāḻvāṉ, an officer of the king. The ājñapti of the grant viz., Vijayanalluḻāṉ of Ālappākkam is identical with the person of the same name figuring in an inscription of Nandivarman at Tiruveḷḷaṟai 2in the Trichinopoly district. The engraver of the grant was Śrī-Daṇḍi, son of Viḍēlviḍugu Pallavap-peruntachchaṉ of Aimpaṉaichchēri in Kachchippēḍu.

Published in Epigraphia Indica, Vol. XVIII, pp. 120 ff. ⟨Page 16⟩

⟨SIIv12p0i0038⟩ No. 38. (A.R. No. 666 of 1922). MAHĀBALIPURAM, CHINGLEPUT TALUK, CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT. ON TWO SIDES OF A SLAB LYING IN THE COURTYARD OF THE VARĀHA CAVE-TEMPLE.

This inscription is dated in the 65th year of Nandibōdhuvarman (Nandippōttavarman) who belonged to the Pallava-vaṁśa. It registers a gift of pasture land by Iḍaivaḻañjāṉ Kaṇḍaṉ, one of the Nagarattār of Māmallapuram, after purchasing it from Kōṉ-Kaṇḍaṉ, son of Iḷan Paduvuṇār, the headman of Kuṉṟattūr in Āmūr-kōṭṭam. The villages of Kuṉṟattūr and Āmūr are near Mahābalipuram in the Chingleput district.

The regnal year given in this record is the highest known date for Nandivarman (II).

Published in the Memoir of the Archaeological Survey of India, No. 26, pp. 10-11. DANTIVARMAN.

⟨SIIv12p0i0039⟩ No. 39. (A.R. No. 256 of 1922). VAYALAIKKĀVŪR, CONJEEVERAM TALUK, CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT. ON A SLAB BUILT INTO THE FLOOR OF THE MAṆḌAPA IN FRONT OF THE CENTRAL SHRINE IN THE VĀṆĀDHĪŚVARA TEMPLE.

This inscription records a gift of 3 kāḍi (of paddy) by five individuals for offerings and a lamp in the temple of Bhaṭāra at Vayalaikkā, in the 2nd year of Vijaya-Dantivikramavarman.

Text.

⟨1⟩ kovicaiya tanti-

⟨2⟩ vikkiramaparumaṟku [yā]-

⟨3⟩ ṇṭu iraṇṭāva-

⟨4⟩ tu paḷḷikkaṭṭiluṭai-

⟨5⟩ ya kaṇṭiyum para[ṉum]

⟨6⟩ ciṟunampiyum ātu[ri]-

⟨7⟩ yum āyiravaṉum [i]-

⟨8⟩ vva[y]vom vayalai-

⟨9⟩ kkāvil [aṭu]tta kā-

⟨10⟩ ṭi muṉṟu kūṟṟālum

⟨11⟩ bha ṭāra rkku oḻu[kka]vi[k]-

⟨12⟩ kum nantāviḷa[ kku- 1]-

⟨13⟩ kkum kuṭutto•

⟨14⟩ •• ttūṭṭuvomā[kak]-

⟨15⟩ damaged

⟨16⟩ [no]m [|*] itu kā[ttū]-

⟨17⟩ [ṭṭu]vāṉ aṭi em [talai]-

⟨18⟩ melana [||*]

⟨SIIv12p0i0040⟩ No. 40. (A.R. No. 541 of 1905). TIRUVEḶḶAṞAI, LALGUDI TALUK, TRICHINOPOLY DISTRICT. ON THE MARGIN OF A WELL CALLED ‘NĀLUMŪLAIKKĒṆI’.

This inscription records the construction of a well called Mārppiḍugu 1-peruṅkiṇaṟu at Teṉṉūr in Tiruveḷḷaṟai by Kambaṉ Araiyaṉ, the younger brother of Viśayanalluḻāṉ of Ālambākkam, in the 4th year of Dantivarman. The well is designed in the form of a svastikā and it is reached by a flight of steps from each of the four directions.

Published in Epigraphia Indica, Vol. XI, p. 157. ⟨Page 17⟩

⟨SIIv12p0i0041⟩ No. 41. (A.R. No. 348 of 1914). KUNNĀṆḌĀRKŌYIL, PUDUKKOTTAI STATE. AT THE NORTH END OF THE ROCK-CUT CAVE OF THE PARVATAGIRĪŚVARA TEMPLE.

This is dated in the 5th year of Vijaya-Dantipōttaraiyar and records the construction of a tank called ‘Vāli-ēri’ by Vāli-Vaḍugaṉ alias Kalimūrkka-Iḷavaraiyaṉ, a servant of Māṟppiḍuviṉār alias Pēradi-Araiyar.

Published 1in the ‘Inscriptions (Texts) of the Pudukkottai State,’ No. 17.

⟨SIIv12p0i0042⟩ No. 42. (A.R. No. 283 of 1916). TOṆḌŪR, GINGEE TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT. ON A BOULDER IN A FIELD NEAR THE ‘VIṆṆAMPĀṞAI-ROCK’.

This inscription 2is dated in the 6th year of Vijaya-Dantivikramavarman and it registers a gift of 16 kaḻañju of gold by Viṇṇakōvaraiyar, probably a chieftain of the locality, to provide, from the interest on the amount, offerings to the goddess Ēṟṟuk-Kuṉṟaṉār-Bhaṭṭāri for the merit of Udāraḍi and Nambi••• who fell in an encounter. The food offered to the god was used for feeding pilgrims and the gold endowed was received by the assembly of Aruvāgūr in Śiṅgapura-nāḍu. Certain specified members of the Vārigam were nominated to see that the assembly maintained this charity properly. The village Aruvāgūr which is stated to have been situated to the east of the road, may be identified with Arugāvūr in the Gingee taluk.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] kovicaya tantivikkiramaparumaṟkku yāṇ ṭāṟāvatu ciṅkapuranāṭṭu kkiḻvaḻi

⟨2⟩ aruvākūrog kaiyeḻuttu [|*] viṇṇakovaraiya reṟṟukkuṉṟaṉār [bha] ṭṭārikkup pati-

⟨3⟩ ṉaṟu kaḻañcu poṉ ko•• [po]mā yitaṉ poliyūṭṭut tamakku viṭai poyppaṭṭa

⟨4⟩ utāraṭiyaiyum nampi••• ñcārtti viṇṇakovaraiyar vaitta tāṉam nicati nā-

⟨5⟩ ṉāḻi arici tecikappāṭu•• māṉo maruvākūrom ippari cūraikekāṇ ṭiyaṟṟu vataṟkku

⟨6⟩ vārikappaṭṭom kāśya paru[m]••• paiyaru meṅkuṭiyil nāyakañceytā riyaṟṟuv[ā]rāka a-

⟨7⟩ maintom aṭṭimuṭṭiyataṉāṟk kāṟppalicai eṟṟi viṇṇakovaraiya rakattārkkuk kuṭuppo-

⟨8⟩ māṉo mitaṟṟiṟampi luṇṭikaiyum paṭṭikaiyug kāṭṭāte nālekāl mutalāka iyṟ ṟaṇṭap-

⟨9⟩ paṭa oṭṭik kuṭutto maruvākūrom [||*]

⟨SIIv12p0i0043⟩ No. 43. (A.R. No. 262 of 1904). TIRUCHCHĀNŪR, CHANDRAGIRI TALUK, CHITTOOR DISTRICT. ON A DETACHED STONE BUILT INTO THE FLOOR AT THE ENTRANCE INTO THE PADMĀ-VATĪ AMMAṈ TEMPLE.

This record registers a gift of 30 kaḻañju of gold by Śōḻaṉār Ulagaperumāṉār of Śōḻa-nāḍu for burning a perpetual lamp before the god Tiruviḷaṅkōyil Perumāṉaḍigaḷ set up in the temple of Tiruvēṅgaḍattu-Perumāṉaḍigaḷ at Tiruchchōgiṉūr in Kuḍavūr-nāḍu, a subdivision of Tiruvēṅgaḍa-kōṭṭam, in the 51st year of Vijaya-Dantivikramavarman.

Ulagaperumāṉār mentioned in the inscription was evidently a Chōḷa chief ruling Śōḻa-nāḍu under the overlordship of the Pallavas. A different Chōḷa chief is mentioned in No. 49 below. ⟨Page 18⟩

Text.

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] kō vicaiya da ntivikrama(r) [ṟ]ku yāṇṭu ampattoṉṟāvatu tiruve[g]-

⟨2⟩ kaṭakkoṭṭattuk kuṭavūrnāṭṭut ti[ru*]ccokiṉūrt tiruveṅkaṭattu [e]mperumāṉaṭikaḷuk-

⟨3⟩ ku eḻuntaruḷuvitta tiruviḷaṅkoyi[ṟ] perumāṉaṭikaḷukkuc coḻanāṭṭu[c] coḻaṉār

⟨4⟩ ulakaperumāṉār vaitta tiruviḷakku mutal muppatiṉ kaḻañcu immutalukkākak karukki-

⟨5⟩ paṭṭi ippoṉṉukkuk koṇṭu ku[ṭu*]ttut tiruviḷakku vaippittom |||—

⟨SIIv12p0i0044⟩ No. 44. (A.R. No. 89 of 1921). PIḶḶAIPĀḶAYAM, CONJEEVERAM TALUK, CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT. ON A SLAB BUILT INTO THE FLOOR AT THE ENTRANCE INTO THE TIRUMĒṞṞAḶI TEMPLE.

This is a fragmentary record of Dantivikramavarman. It mentions a certain [Kā]ḍuveṭṭi-Muttaraiyaṉ at whose request an endowment of 4 paṭṭi of land was made to the old temple of Vishṇu called Tirumēṟṟaḷi at Iṟaiyāṉchēri and to a maṭha, probably attached to it.

Reference to a Kāḍuveṭṭi-Muttaraśan who made a raid on Kōyāttūr in the reign of the Bāṇa king Vijayāditya Vīrachūḷāmaṇi Prabhumēru is noticed in a record from Puṅganūr (No. 542 of 1906). This chief was probably identical with the Kāḍuveṭṭi-Muttaraiyaṉ mentioned in the present inscription as he lived about this period.

Text.

⟨1⟩ ••••• caiya tantivikkiramaparumakki yā••

⟨2⟩ •••• [ṭu ve]ṭṭi muttaraiyaṉ viṇṇappattāl•••

⟨3⟩ •••• ṭṭu iṟaiyāṉceri paḻan tirumeṟṟaḷiyum maṭamum u•••

⟨4⟩ ••• ḷḷiṭṭu caturvvaṭṭi nālupaṭṭi nilamum paḻantirumel••

⟨5⟩ ••• parihāra māka pādadatti ceṉ[ṟa]tu itu kāttāṉ ṉaṭi eṉṟa•• Nandivarman III.

⟨SIIv12p0i0045⟩ No. 45. (A.R. No. 475 of 1925). PAḶḶIKOṆḌA, VELLORE TALUK, NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT. ON A PILLAR IN THE MAṆḌAPA IN FRONT OF THE CENTRAL SHRINE IN THE NĀGANĀTHĒŚVARA TEMPLE.

This is dated in the 2nd year of Nandippōttaraiyar and records the construction of the mukha-maṇḍapa by Śelvavāṇarayaṉ, son of Amaṉi-Gaṅgaraiyar, who was ruling over Vittūr. It may be noted that Paḷḷikoṇḍa was called Vichchūr 1in ancient times.

Palaeographically, the present record may be attributed to the reign of Nandivarman III. In a later record viz., of the 10th year of the Chōḷa Parakēsarivarman from Tiruchchattuṟai in the Tanjore district, figures a chief of Paṅgaḷanāḍu named Bhuvani-Gaṅgaraiyan. 2Since Paḷḷikoṇḍa was in Paṅgaḷa-nāḍu, Amaṉi (Avani)Gaṅgaraiyar of the present inscription may have been an earlier member of the family of Paṅgaḷa-nāḍu chiefs.

Text.

⟨1⟩ śrī nantippo-

⟨2⟩ ttarayar[k*]ku yā-

⟨3⟩ ṇṭu iraṇṭāvatu

⟨4⟩ amaṉikaṅkaraiyar

⟨5⟩ makaṉ celvavā-

⟨6⟩ ṇarayaṉ vittū-

⟨7⟩ rāṇṭu ceyvit-

⟨8⟩ ta mukamaṇṭaka-

⟨9⟩ m [||*] ⟨Page 19⟩

⟨SIIv12p0i0046⟩ No. 46. (A.R. No. 347 of 1914). KUNNĀṆḌĀRKŌYIL, PUDUKKOTTAI STATE. AT THE SOUTH END OF THE ROCK-CUT SHRINE IN THE PARVATAGIRĪŚVARA TEMPLE.

This inscription dated in the 3rd year of Nandippōttaraiyar may be assigned to Nandivarman III. It registers a gift of 200 nāḻi of rice for feeding 100 persons on the day of Tiruvādirai, by Gaṇavatimāṉ alias Pagaichchandira Viśaiaraiyaṉ of Vaḍuvūr in Mīpuḻai-nāḍu. This inscription indicates that the limits of the Pallava empire still continued to extend as far south as the Pudukkottai State.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] konantippotta-

⟨2⟩ raiyarkku yāṇṭu 3- āvatu mi-

⟨3⟩ puḻaināṭṭu vaṭuvūrk kaṇavatimā-

⟨4⟩ ṉṉāyiṉa pakaiccantira vicaia-

⟨5⟩ raiyaṉ ṟiruvātiraināṉṟu a-

⟨6⟩ ṭṭaḻiya vaitta arici 200-† iru-

⟨7⟩ nūṟṟunāḻi nūṟṟuvarkku |||—

⟨SIIv12p0i0047⟩ No. 47. (A.R. No. 158 of 1919). KIḶIYAṈŪR, TINDIVANAM TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT. ON THE SOUTH WALL OF THE CENTRAL SHRINE IN THE VAIKUṆṬHAVĀSA-PERUMĀḶ TEMPLE.

This inscription is dated in the 3rd year of Vijaya-Nandivikramavarman who may be identified with Nandivarman III. It states that a resident of the village Tigaittiṟal built the temple of Tigaittiṟal-Vishṇugṛiha at Kiḷiñelūr in Ōymā-nāḍu and gave 300 sheep for maintaining a sacred lamp and 2 pieces of land (śeṟu) made tax-free, for providing offerings to the god. In later inscriptions the god is called Vīṟṟirunda-Perumāḷ (A.R. Nos. 163 and 168 of 1919).

Text.

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] kovicaiya nantivikkiramapaṟmakki yāṇṭu muṉṟāvatu o-

⟨2⟩ ymāṉāṭṭu kiḷiñelūr tikaittiṟal viṣṇu[gra] ham eṭu-

⟨3⟩ ppitta tikaittiṟalār tiruviḷakku[k]ku vaitta āṭu mu[n]nūṟum ivare tiruvamu-

⟨4⟩ tukku vaitta śrīkoyiliṉ kiḻai ceṟuviraṇṭum iṟaiyili [|*] i[dha*]nma m rakṣi[t*]tār śrīpātam eṉ ṟalaiy [mela]tu [||*]

⟨SIIv12p0i0048⟩ No. 48. (A.R. Nos. 88 of 1910 and 529 of 1905). TIRUVEḶḶAṞAI, LALGUDI TALUK, TRICHINOPOLY DISTRICT. ON A ROCK IN FRONT OF THE JAMBUNĀTHASVĀMIN TEMPLE.

This inscription was partially copied in 1905 and then completely in 1910 after removing a wall obstructing a portion of the record. The middle portion of the inscription is damaged being chiselled away right through to construct a drain. It appears to be dated in the 6th year of Pallava-Mahārāja alias Danti-Nandivarman of the Bhāra[dvāja-gōtra] and Brahmakshatra family. The king's name, in the form given here, implies that Nandivarman was the son of Dantivarman. The inscription seems to record the praise of a certain Śellikkōmāṉ Mallavān who is described as the nephew of Paraśirāman and the uncle of Māṟpiḍugu Iḷaṅgōvēḷāṉ Śāttaṉ. The record is stated to have been composed by a certain Peruṅgāvidi Śaḍaiyaṉpaḷḷi.

Puḷḷis are marked in the record in some cases.

1) See also Inscriptions (Texts) of the Pudukkottai State, No. 15.

2) A portion of the inscription is published in Śen Tamiḻ, Vol. III. p. 199. ⟨Page 20⟩

Text.

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] bhāra[dva]•••1 laka branmākṣatrakulōdbhavaḥ

⟨2⟩ llavamahārāja••••2 ramēśvara nākiya śrīdantina-

⟨3⟩ ntivarma [ṟ]ku ya•• 3 ṟāvatu tiruveḷḷaṟai pa-

⟨4⟩ riṭai yār bra[hma] •••• lla[va*]māma[ṟai]t toṉṟi

⟨5⟩ va[ṉi]ventaṉ••• ḷ māṟpiṭukiḷaṅkoveḷ[ā]-

⟨6⟩ ṉ cāttaṉ ce••• taṉ māmaṉ paracirāmaṉ

⟨7⟩ tirumarumāṉ peru[]••• cellikkomāṉ malla-

⟨8⟩ vā[n] t[o]ṇmaṟava••• ta cūṭi[rā]ṭi cūṭi [mā]maṇi

⟨9⟩ veḷāḷaraiyar(ā) tag••• lai nirava[ yaṉantanti] maṅkai

⟨10⟩ kkāṉa uṟutiyāṉ pukaḻvaḷarka maṇṇi meley

⟨11⟩ branma teyattukku (u)ṟutiyān viḻup[peraraiyaṉ cā]-

⟨12⟩ ttaṉ maṟṟavaṉ(p) pukaḻni[ṟ]kka [|*] itu pāṭittanton

⟨13⟩ peruṅkāviti caṭaiyaṉpaḷḷi [||*]

⟨SIIv12p0i0049⟩ No. 49. (C.P. No. 24 of 1910-11). VĒLŪRPĀḶAIYAM PLATES OF NANDIVARMAN III: 6TH YEAR.

This copper-plate record issued in the 6th year of Nandivarman (III) registers a gift of the village Śrīkāṭṭuppaḷḷi, to the Śiva temple built by Yajñabhaṭṭa, at the request of Chōḷa-Mahārāja Kumārāṅkuśa, for the expenses of daily worship and for a feeding house. This Chōḷa-Mahārāja and Vijayālaya, the founder of the revived Chōḷa line at Tanjore are taken to have belonged to one and the same family. This is doubtful and he should propably have belonged to the family of Rēnāṇḍu Chōḻas. 4

Published in South Indian Inscriptions, Vol. II, pp. 507-510.

⟨SIIv12p0i0050⟩ No. 50. (A.R. No. 406 of 1905). KĀVĒRIPPĀKKAM, ARKONAM TALUK, NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT. AT THE ENTRANCE INTO THE GŌPURA OF THE MUKTĪŚVARA TEMPLE.

This is a fragmentary inscription of Nandivarman dated in his 13th year. It registers a gift of five kaḻañju of gold, by the daughter-in-law (marumagaḷ) of Ayyakki Paṅgaḷa-aḍigaḷ, who was probably a chief of Paṅgaḷa-nāḍu which comprised a portion of the present North Arcot district.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] nantivarmma ṟku yāṇṭu patiṉmuṉṟāvatu [em]mur ayyakki paṅkaḷa aṭikaḷ maruma kaḷ pakkal añkaḻañ••••

⟨2⟩ [ḻañ]cu poṉ vaittu [patiṉ]••• l ivveṇṇai uḷḷiṭṭaṉṟi emmurava[r nica]ti ā[ḻā*]kkum kuṭu•••

⟨3⟩ •••••• kālamum muṭṭā(l)ma[l*] aṭṭuvippārkaḷākavum śrī••• 5 ⟨Page 21⟩

⟨SIIv12p0i0051⟩ No. 51. (A.R. No. 349 of 1911). KAḶATTŪR, CHINGLEPUT TALUK AND DISTRICT. ON A SLAB BUILT INTO THE FLOOR OF THE MUKHA-MAṆḌAPA IN THE MUṈKUḌUMĪŚVARA TEMPLE.

This inscription is worn out in the middle and it is dated in the 14th year of Nandivarmma-[Mahārāja]. It seems to assign a third share of the income from the local lake to Paramēśvara, by the assembly (perumakkaḷ) of Kaḷattūr in Kaḷattūr-kōṭṭam.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] nandivarmma-

⟨2⟩ (ma)ma hārā[jaṟ]kup

⟨3⟩ patiṉālāvatu kaḷat-

⟨4⟩ tūrkkoṭṭattu kaḷa-

⟨5⟩ ttūr perumakkaḷ [pag]-

⟨6⟩ [kāṉā][ ṭṭai yil]•

⟨7⟩ • ttān [e]rippāt-

⟨8⟩ tu koyilāka parame-

⟨9⟩ śva ran mu[ṉpāka] pe-

⟨10⟩ rumakkaḷum kaṭava muṉ-

⟨11⟩ ṟil oṉṟum parame-

⟨12⟩ śva ran sukṛ tam [||*]

⟨SIIv12p0i0052⟩ No. 52. (A.R. No. 49 of 1905). DAḶAVĀṈŪR, GINGEE TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT. ON A PILLAR AT THE ENTRANCE INTO THE ROCK-CUT CAVE.

This is a damaged record of Vijaya-Nandivikramavarman dated in his 15th year. It seems to register some agreement given by a temple servant residing at Veṇbēḍu to a certain Mōḍaṉ, who had made an endowment of one kaḻañju of gold. Veṇbēḍu may be identified with the village of the same name in the Chingleput taluk.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] kovicaiya

⟨2⟩ nantivikkiramap-

⟨3⟩ paru[makku] yāṇṭu [pa]ti-

⟨4⟩ ṉaintāvatu veṇ-

⟨5⟩ peṭṭuvāḻum taḷiuṭai[ya]

⟨6⟩ [kāḷaya] i•• [makaṉte]-

⟨7⟩ damaged

⟨8⟩ damaged

⟨9⟩ [mulaṅkūrp] pu[r]aica[r]

⟨10⟩ moṭaṉṉiṭaik ka-

⟨11⟩ ḻañcu[p po]ṉ muta-

⟨12⟩ l koṇṭu ippo 1

⟨SIIv12p0i0053⟩ No. 53. (A.R. No. 352 of 1908). MĀṄGĀḌU, SRIPERUMBUDUR TALUK, CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT. ON A SLAB BUILT INTO THE FLOOR OF THE CENTRAL SHRINE IN THE VAḶḶĪŚVARA TEMPLE.

This damaged inscription is dated in the 17th year of Vijaya-Nandivikramavarman and it mentions the Śēḻiya-Vāṇiyar of Kuṉṟattūr, who evidently made provision for offerings to the god on Tiruvādirai and amāvāsyā days, through the sabhā of Tiruveḷḷikīḻuḍaiya (Mahādēva). This is the earliest inscription in the temple and it probably belongs to Nandivarman III. In a later inscription of the place the god is called Tiruveḷḷikīḻmēya-Nāyaṉār. 2Chūtavana mentioned in the Udayēndiram plates of Nandivarman is probably identical with Māṅgāḍu. 3

Text.

⟨1⟩ śrī kovicaiya nantivikkiramaparumaṟku yāṇṭu patiṉeḻāvatu puli-

⟨2⟩ [yūr]kkuṭikkoṭṭattuk kuṉṟattūrc ceḻiyavāṇiyarkaḷo-

⟨3⟩ [m ti]ruvātiraiyun talaiyuvāvum tiṅkaḷ[ni]laviyug kāṭṭu[vo]-

⟨4⟩ [mā]ṉom tiruveḷḷikiḻuṭaiya [cavaiyom] |||௳ ⟨Page 22⟩

⟨SIIv12p0i0054⟩ No. 54. (A.R. No. 8 of 1934-35). PAḌŪR, CHINGLEPUT TALUK AND DISTRICT. ON A SLAB SET UP IN THE STREET CALLED ‘MĒṬṬUTTERUVU’.

The beginning of this inscription is lost, but from palaeography and the letters Nan traceable in the first line, it may be assigned to Nandivarman III. It is dated in the 18th year and registers the gift of 96 sheep by the shepherds (kōṭṭamaṉṟāḍis) of Āmūr-kōṭṭam for burning a perpetual lamp before the god Perumā[ṉa*]ḍigaḷ ‘who was pleased’ to stand at Viḻupperundāya-Vishṇugṛiham in Paḍuvūr.

Text.

⟨1⟩ •••• nan-

⟨2⟩ ••• ṟku yāṇṭu pati-

⟨3⟩ ṉeṭṭāvatu āmurkoṭ-

⟨4⟩ ṭattuk [ko]ṭṭamaṉṟāṭi-

⟨5⟩ kaḷ paṭuvūr viḻuppe-

⟨6⟩ runtāyaviṣṇugraha ttu

⟨7⟩ niṉṟa[ruḷu]kiṉṟa perumā-

⟨8⟩ [ṉa*]ṭikaḷukku vaiytta nan-

⟨9⟩ tāviḷakkoṉṟukku vai-

⟨10⟩ tta āṭu cāvāmuvāpperā-

⟨11⟩ ṭu toṇṇūṟu idhanma m ra[kṣi]-

⟨12⟩ [p*]pār aṭipoṭi eṉ talaimela-

⟨13⟩ tu [||*]

⟨SIIv12p0i0055⟩ No. 55. (A.R. No. 27 of 1930-31). TIRUKKŌḌIKKĀVAL, KUMBAKONAM TALUK, TANJORE DISTRICT. ON THE SOUTH WALL OF THE CENTRAL SHRINE IN THE TIRUKKŌḌĪŚVARA TEMPLE.

This inscription of the 19th year of Nandippōttaraiyar begins by stating that it is a copy of an old stone record found in the temple. A later record in the same place mentions that Śembiyaṉ-Mādēviyār, the mother of the Chōḷa king Uttama-Chōḷa, repaired the temple at Tirukkōḍikkā and that she then ordered the re-engraving of the old inscriptions found on the walls before renovation. The Chōḷa queen, by this policy, has preserved for posterity as many as 26 inscriptions in this temple, which would otherwise have been irretrievably lost.

The present inscription is a palimpsest and it registers a gift of 100 kalam of paddy by Āḻiśiṟiyaṉ for maintaining a sacred lamp in the temple of Śiṟunaṅgai-Īśvarāgaram at Tirukkōḍikā. The priests of the temple agreed to maintain the lamp.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] ituvum

⟨2⟩ moru paḻaṅkaṟpaṭi [|*] yā-

⟨3⟩ ṇṭunanti ppottarai-

⟨4⟩ yaṟkku pattoṉpa-

⟨5⟩ tāvatu tirukkoṭikā-

⟨6⟩ vil ciṟunaṅkai iśva rākarat-

⟨7⟩ tu mahādē va[r*]kku tiruviḷakki-

⟨8⟩ ṉukku aḻiciṟiyaṉ kuṭutta nel-

⟨9⟩ lu nūṟṟukkalam iṉṉelliṉ pa-

⟨10⟩ licaiyāl nāḷvāy uḻakku ney

⟨11⟩ tōntā viḷak kerippomāṉom it-

⟨12⟩ taḷi a[r*]ccippom āttiraiyaṉ nā-

⟨13⟩ rāyaṇaṉ eṟaṉum ivaṉ ṟampimārum

⟨14⟩ iṉṉālvom [|*] itu paḻaṅkaṟ-

⟨15⟩ paṭi [|*] inta śrī [vi]māṉattile

⟨16⟩ eṟa veṭ[ṭiṉa]maiyil muṉ-

⟨17⟩ ṉivājaka[m ve]ṭṭikki[ṭa]-

⟨18⟩ nta taṉik[kallā]l u[bhai]-

⟨19⟩ yoka mi[llāmaiyāl]

⟨20⟩ atu tavi[nta]tu [i]tu

⟨21⟩ nanti l paṉmāyeśva ra[r ka]-

⟨22⟩ ṭaikkuṭṭapeṟṟār 1[||*] ⟨Page 23⟩

⟨SIIv12p0i0056⟩ No. 56. (A.R. No. 144 of 1928-29). ŚEṈṈIVĀYAKKĀL, LALGUDI TALUK, TRICHINOPOLY DISTRICT. ON A HERO-STONE NEAR THE RUINED GŌPURA OF THE ŚIVA TEMPLE.

This record is engraved on a hero-stone bearing the figure of a Brahman being pierced by an arrow near the neck. It is dated in the 21st year of Nandippōttaraiyar ‘who obtained the kingdom after defeating (his enemies at) Teḷḷāṟu’. The inscription is damaged and it refers to a certain Māvali (i.e., a Bāṇa chieftain) and to a raid causing the destruction of a maṭha, in saving which a Brahman hero named Śattimuṟṟattēvaṉ met with his death. The record mentions the temple of Arindigai-Īśvaram built at Parāntakapuram, which must have been respectively named after the Chōḷa kings Ariñjaya and his father Parāntaka I who flourished a century later. From palaeography also the record may be assigned to the 10th century A.D. It, therefore appears to be a later copy of the original record. The mention of a Bāṇa chief outside the Bāṇa territory is noteworthy.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] teḷ-

⟨2⟩ ḷāṟṟeṟintu

⟨3⟩ rājya [mu]ṅko-

⟨4⟩ ṇṭa nantip-

⟨5⟩ pottaraiyar[k*]-

⟨6⟩ ku yāṇṭu iru-

⟨7⟩ pattoṉṟāvatu

⟨8⟩ parāntakapurat-

⟨9⟩ tu aṟinti-

⟨10⟩ kaiīśvaragṛ-

⟨11⟩ ham śāsana-

⟨12⟩ ttā luṭaiyo-

⟨13⟩ rum••

⟨14⟩ •• taḷi-

⟨15⟩ yilātāki niṉṟa bhaṭṭa reṉ māvali yani-

⟨16⟩ yasthā namāḷvāṉ ce[vaṇaṟ kuṇṭu] ko-

⟨17⟩ ṇṭu vantu maṭamuñ cuṭṭuk kātta śigura-

⟨18⟩ varaiyu meṟintu ivar śiṣya n oru brā-

⟨19⟩ hma ṇaṉ cattimuṟṟattevan 1ṟuṇṭupa-

⟨20⟩ ṭṭāṉ valluva[ṉāṭ]ṭāṉ [||*]

⟨SIIv12p0i0057⟩ No. 57. (A.R. No. 180 of 1907). TIRUPPALĀTTURAI (TIRUPPIRAITTURAI), TRICHINOPOLY TALUK, TRICHINOPOLY DISTRICT. ON A STONE BUILT INTO THE NORTH WALL OF THE MAṆḌAPA IN THE ĀDIMŪLĒŚVARA TEMPLE.

This inscription is dated in the 22nd year of Nandippōttaraiyar ‘who defeated (his enemies) at Teḷḷāṟu’. It records an agreement given by the assembly sabhā of Tiruppāṟṟuṟai to burn two perpetual lamps (in the temple of) Mahādēva-Bhaṭāra at Tiruppāṟṟuṟai for 60 kaḻañju of gold received by them from the king for the purpose.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*]

⟨2⟩ teḷḷāṟṟeṟi-

⟨3⟩ nta nantip-

⟨4⟩ pottaraiyar (ya)

⟨5⟩ yāṇṭu irupat-

⟨6⟩ tiraṇṭāvatu ti-

⟨7⟩ ruppāṟṟuṟai ma-

⟨8⟩ hādēvabha ṭārar-

⟨9⟩ kku iraṇṭu na-

⟨10⟩ ntāviḷak keri-

⟨11⟩ ppataṟku kuṭut-

⟨12⟩ ta poṉ aṟu-

⟨13⟩ patiṉkaḻañcu i-

⟨14⟩ ppoṉ koṇṭi-

⟨15⟩ raṇṭu nantāvi[ḷa]-

⟨16⟩ kkum muṭṭā[mai]

⟨17⟩ erippippo-

⟨18⟩ māṉom tiruppā-

⟨19⟩ ṟṟuṟai sabhai-

⟨20⟩ yom itu [pa]-

⟨21⟩ •••• 2 ⟨Page 24⟩

⟨SIIv12p0i0058⟩ No. 58. (A.R. No. 48 of 1914). TIRUVAIGĀVŪR, PAPANASAM TALUK, TANJORE DISTRICT. ON THE SOUTH WALL OF THE MAṆḌAPA IN FRONT OF THE CENTRAL SHRINE IN THE BILVANĀTHĒŚVARA TEMPLE.

This inscription is dated in the 22nd year of Nandivarmarāja. It registers a purchase of 1(1/2) vēli of land called Vaṇṇakkaviḷāgam from the assembly of Tribhuvanamādēvi-chaturvēdimaṅgalam by Śandippeliyār (probably a person in charge of the conduct of ceremonies in the temple), for burning a lamp and for providing offerings to the god Tiruvaigāvuḍaiya-Mahādēva. The mention of Tribhuvanamādēvi-chaturvēdimaṅgalam as the surname of Tiruvaigāvūr, which is only found in later inscriptions clearly indicates that this is not an exact copy of the original record, though in the last line this epigraph is stated to be a copy of a stone inscription. Judging from palaeography, the inscription may be assigned to the 11th century A.D.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] nantipmarāja1 ṟku yāṇṭu irupattiraṇṭāvatu tiruvaiykāvu-

⟨2⟩ ṭaiya mahādē vaṟku tirunontāviḷakkum amutupaṭikkum u[paiya]m vai-

⟨3⟩ ykka ca[n]tippeliyār tiripuvaṉamāteviccaruppetimaṅkalat-

⟨4⟩ tu sabhai yār pakkal poṉ kuṭuttup polikūlikkuc cela-

⟨5⟩ vāka kācukoḷḷā ūṟkiḻ iṟaiyiliyāka maṇaliṭil veli-

⟨6⟩ yākak koṇṭuviṭṭa vaṇṇakkaviḷākam nilam kaṟā iṉṉilam oṉṟa-

⟨7⟩ raiyu[m*] iṟakkātān tiruvaṭi iraṇṭu men talai meliṉa [|*] itu iṟakkuvān taṅka-

⟨8⟩ ḷammaikkut tāney miṉāḷaṉ |||—itu kalveṭṭuppaṭi [||*]

⟨SIIv12p0i0059⟩ No. 59. (A.R. No. 199 of 1907). TIRUVIḌAIMARUDŪR, KUMBAKONAM TALUK, TANJORE DISTRICT. ON THE NORTH WALL OF THE CENTRAL SHRINE IN THE MAHĀLIṄGASVĀMIN TEMPLE. 2

This is said to be a copy of a record of Kāḍuveṭṭigaḷ Nandippōttairaiyar reengraved in the 4th year of a Chōḷa king named Parakēsarivarman who may be identified with Uttama-Chōḷa. It records a gift of 60 kaḻañju of gold for the maintenance of a perpetual lamp called Kumaramārttāṇḍa 3in the temple. The title ‘Kumaramārttāṇḍa’ has been tentatively attributed to Pallavamalla, but it may, with greater probability, be applied to Nandivarman III.

Published in South Indian Inscriptions, Vol. III, No. 124.

⟨SIIv12p0i0060⟩ No. 60. (A.R. No. 120 of 1928-29). LĀLGUḌI, LALGUDI TALUK, TRICHINOPOLY DISTRICT. ON THE NORTH WALL OF THE CENTRAL SHRINE IN THE SAPTAṚISHĪŚVARA TEMPLE.

This inscription is dated in the year opposite to the 4th of some king whose name is, however, not mentioned. It states that the sabhā of Nallimaṅgalam agreed to maintain a perpetual lamp in the temple of Mahādēva at Tiruttavattuṟai in Iḍaiyāṟṟunāḍu, from a gift of 60 kāśu made by Nandippōttaraiyar ‘who fought the battle of Teḷḷāṟu and gained victory (in it).’ Judging from palaeography, the record may be ⟨Page 25⟩ assigned to the 10th century A.D. Consequently this inscription has to be treated as a later copy of the original record which probably belonged to the time of Māṟañjaḍaiyaṉ alias Varaguṇa-Pāṇḍya I. The donor may easily be identified with Nandivarman III from the reference to Teḷḷāṟu.

Published in Epigraphia Indica, Vol. XX, p. 52. NRIPATUNGAVARMAN.

⟨SIIv12p0i0061⟩ No. 61. (A.R. No. 122 of 1928-29). ON THE SAME WALL.

This inscription states that in the 2nd year of Vijaya-Nṛipatuṅgavikramavarman, the assembly of Muttaiyil in Iḍaiyāṟṟu-nāḍu received a gift of 10(1/2) kaḻañju of gold made by Pūdi Kaṇḍaṉ of Kavirappoṟkaṭṭiyūr, on behalf of his mother, to provide rice, by the measure called Nārāya-nāḻi during the seven days of the Chittirai-Vishu festival in the temple of Tiruttavattuṟai-Mahādēva. It has been suggested that some of the inscriptions in this temple are later copies, 1though it is not stated so in the present epigraph. From the provenance of the record, it will be evident that Nṛipatuṅga's territory extended as far as the Trichinopoly district.

Tiruttavattuṟai may be identified with Lālguḍi itself where this inscription is found and the village Muttaiyil with Muttayyampāḷaiyam in the Musiri taluk of the Trichinopoly district. The donor of the inscription also figures in another record of the same place, 2dated in the 23rd year of Nṛipatuṅga.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] kovicaya nirupatoṅkavikkiramaparumarkku yāṇṭu 2- ṇṭāvatu iṭaiyāṟṟu nāṭṭut tiruttavattuṟai mahādē va[rkku]

⟨2⟩ iññāṭṭu kavirappoṟkaṭṭiyūr uṭaiyāṉ pūtikaṇṭaṉ cittiraiviṣu tiruviḻāvukku tāyāraic cārtti [v*]aitta poṉ pati-

⟨3⟩ ṉkaḻaiñcarai ippoṉ patiṉkaḻañcarai poṉṉug iññāṭṭu muttaiyil sabhai yog koṇṭu caṉtirātittava-

⟨4⟩ l āṭṭāṇṭutoṟuñ cittiraiviṣu tiruviḻāvukku nārāyanāḻiyāl eḻunāḷaikkum nicati kalavarai arici patte[ṭṭukkuttal]

⟨5⟩ [ma]ṭāvil aṭṭum parice eḻunāḷ muṉtuṟa śrīkoyilukke [ko][ṇ*](ṭ)ṭu ceṉṟu aḷap pomāṉom aḷavomāyi[l mu]ṭṭira-

⟨6⟩ [ṭṭi] panmā heśvarar taṇṭikkoḷḷa oṭṭik kuṭuttom tiruttavattuṟai mahādē varkku muttaiyil sabhai yom [|*] itu panmāhēśvara rakṣai [||*]

⟨SIIv12p0i0062⟩ No. 62. (A.R. No. 68 of 1908). VAḺUVŪR, WANDIWASH TALUK, NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT. ON A SLAB SET UP NEAR THE SLUICE OF THE TANK.

This is dated in the 6th year of Nṛipatuṅgappōttaraiyar and records the construction of a sluice at Vaḷagūr by Aṟamiḷippāruḻāṉ Vaḷagūr of Maṉṉārmaṅgalam in Aḻundūr-nāḍu. The inscription is engraved carelessly. ⟨Page 26⟩

Text.

⟨1⟩ śrī [||*] nirupa toṅkappot-

⟨2⟩ taraiyarkku yāṇṭu ā-

⟨3⟩ ṟāvatu vaḷakūril [a]ḻu-

⟨4⟩ ntūrnāṭṭu maṉṉār[mag]-

⟨5⟩ [kala maṟa]miḷippāruḻāṉ vaḷakū-

⟨6⟩ r ceyivitta tūmpu [||*]

⟨SIIv12p0i0063⟩ No. 63. (A.R. No. 365 of 1904). NĀRTTĀMALAI, PUDUKKOTTAI STATE. ON THE NORTH BASE OF THE RUINED MAṆḌAPA IN FRONT OF THE ROCK-CUT ŚIVA TEMPLE.

This inscription is dated in the 7th year of Nṛipatuṅgavikramavarman. It states that Śāttam Paḻiyili, son of Viḍēlviḍugu-Muttaraiyaṉ, excavated the (rock-cut) temple and that his daughter Paḻiyili Śiṟiya-Naṅgai, the wife of Mīṉavaṉ Tamiḻadiyaraiyaṉ alias Pāllaṉ Aṉantaṉ enlarged it by adding a mukha-maṇḍapa, bali-pīṭha etc., and also made provision for worship and offerings to the god therein.

Text. 1

⟨1⟩ [svasti] śrī [||*] kovicaiya nirupatoṅka[ vikramavanma ṟ] ku yāṇṭu ēḻāvatu viṭelviṭuku mutta-

⟨2⟩ raiyaṉ makaṉ cāttampaḻiyili kuṭaivitta śrīkoyil [|*] iccirikoyilu-

⟨3⟩ kku mukamaṇṭakamum iṣavamum iṣavakkoṭṭilum palippiṭamum

⟨4⟩ ceyvittā[ḷ] cātt(ā)[m][paḻiyili ma]kaḷ miṉavaṉ tamiḻatiyaraiya[ṉā]ṉa pāl-

⟨5⟩ laṉ aṉantaṉukkup pukka paḻiyili ciṟiyanaṅkai [|*]

⟨6⟩ iccirikoilukku arccinābhōga ttu[kku] aṇṇal[vā]-

⟨7⟩ [yi]ṟ kūṟṟattup peruviḷattūrc cavaiñ cāttaṉ kāṇiyāṉa muveliyi-

⟨8⟩ l vi[lai]ko[ṇṭa] kāṟceyyum evvakaippaṭṭa i[ṟai] itaṉāl vantate-

⟨9⟩ llām koviṉukkavippatuḷātu cavaiñ cāttaṉu mivaṉ vaḻiyilāru[m*] pe[ṟa]k-

⟨10⟩ [kaṭa]vatākavum itu caṭai[ya*]ṉum

⟨11⟩ [i]ṭaiyūṟetum paṭaṉmurai kovi-

⟨12⟩ [ṉu]kku varum irupattaiṅka[ḻa*]ñcu po-

⟨13⟩ ṉ taṇṭaṅkaṭava[rā]kavum paṭṭuṭaiyā-

⟨14⟩ ṉ uḻuttiraṉ teyapukkikkuc ce-

⟨15⟩ yvitteṉ paḻiyi-

⟨16⟩ li ciṟiyanaṅkaieṉ

⟨17⟩ paḻi 2yili īśva rattup pa-

⟨18⟩ ṭṭuṭaiyā ṉuruttiraṉ te-

⟨19⟩ yapu[k*]kuc ceyvit[ta*]tu [||*]

⟨SIIv12p0i0064⟩ No. 64. (A.R. No. 460 of 1905). TIRUVĀLAṄGĀḌU, TIRUTTANI TALUK, CHITTOOR DISTRICT. ON THE EAST WALL OF THE FIRST PRĀKĀRA OF THE NAṬARĀJA SHRINE IN THE VAṬĀRAṆYĒŚVARA TEMPLE.

This inscription states that in the 11th year of Nṛipatuṅgadēva, the assembly of Perumuḷai-ūr, a brahmadēya in Kākkalūr-nāḍu which was a subdivision of Īkkāṭṭukkōṭṭam, agreed to measure out a stipulated quantity of paddy and ghee for offerings to the god at Tiruvālaṅgāḍu in Paḻaiyaṉūr-nāḍu, in lieu of the interest on 108 kaḻañju of gold received by them from the queen Kāḍavaṉ-Mādēviyār. Kākkalūr and Ikkāḍu after which the territorial divisions were named are found in the Tiruvallur taluk of the Chingleput district.

The record is engraved in characters of a later period after an inscription of Tribhuvanachakravarttin Kōṉēriṉmaikoṇḍāṉ, who, from the royal secretary Mīṉavaṉ Mūvēndavēḷāṉ mentioned in it, may be identified with Kulōttuṅga-Chōḷa III, and has therefore to be presumed to be a copy. ⟨Page 27⟩

Paḻaiyaṉūr in Paḻaiyaṉūr-nāḍu is identical with the village of the same name close to Tiruvālaṅgāḍu in the Tiruttani division of the Chittoor district. The Tiruvālaṅgāḍu plates of the Chōḷa king Rājēndra-Chōḷa I record the grant of this village to the Śiva temple at Tiruvālaṅgāḍu. In the Tēvāram hymns this latter place is called Paḻaiyaṉūr-Ālaṅgāḍu (i.e. Ālaṅgāḍu near Paḻaiyaṉūr).

Text.

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] koṉirupatuṅkatevarkku 1yāṇṭu 11- āvatu ittevar teviyār kāṭavaṉmātevi yār

⟨2⟩ pakkal īkkāṭṭukkoṭṭattuk kākkalūrnāṭṭu brammatē cam perumuḷaiūr sabhai yār koṇṭa tan-

⟨3⟩ makaṭṭaḷaiyāl poṉ- 108 ippoṉ nūṟṟeṇ kaḻañcukkum palicaiyākap paḻaiyaṉūrnāṭṭu tiruvā-

⟨4⟩ laṅkāṭuṭaiyārkku āṭṭāṇṭutoṟum ceyyakkaṭava nivantam āṇṭuvarai aḷakku i 2 200-100 3 - nittam ney

⟨5⟩ uri āḻakku ||௳

⟨SIIv12p0i0065⟩ No. 65. (A.R. No. 417 of 1912). MARUDĀḌU, WANDIWASH TALUK, NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT. ON A SLAB LYING NEAR THE BIG IRRIGATION TANK.

This record states that in the 12th year of Vijaya-Nṛipatuṅgavarman, Koṅgaraiyar Niṉṟapuermāṉ constructed a weir to the tank at Marudāḍu and renovated the sluice.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*]

⟨2⟩ kovicaiya nṛpa-

⟨3⟩ tuṅkavarmma ṟku yā-

⟨4⟩ ṇṭu panniraṇṭāva-

⟨5⟩ tu marutāṭṭerik ka-

⟨6⟩ liñcu ceyvit-

⟨7⟩ tut tūmpu putuk-

⟨8⟩ kuvittār koṅkarai-

⟨9⟩ yar niṉṟaperu-

⟨10⟩ māṉ [||*]

⟨SIIv12p0i0066⟩ No. 66. (A.R. No. 461 of 1905). TIRUVĀLAṄGĀḌU, TIRUTTANI TALUK, CHITTOOR DISTRICT. ON THE EAST WALL OF THE FIRST PRĀKĀRA OF THE NAṬARĀJA SHRINE IN THE VAṬĀRAṆYĒŚVARA TEMPLE.

This inscription is engraved below No. 64 and therefore, may also be likewise taken to be a later copy. It is dated in the 15th year of Nṛipatuṅgadēva, and it states that the assembly of Pulvēḷūr in Eyiṟ-kōṭṭam agreed to supply one uri of oil daily, by the measure Pirudimāṇikkam for burning two perpetual lamps in the temple of Tiruvālaṅgāḍu-Uḍaiyār for the amount of 30 kaḻañju of gold received by them from one Arigaṇḍa-Perumāḷ. This person may be identified with the donor of the same name mentioned as the son of Kāḍupaṭṭi-Muttaraiyar in a record of the 24th year of Nṛipatuṅga from Tirumukkūḍal. 4It may be mentioned that Kāḍupaṭṭi-Muttaraiyar figures in a record from Piḷḷaipāḷaiyam 5near Conjeeveram in the reign of Dantivarman. ⟨Page 28⟩

Nṛipatuṅga's queen, according to No. 64 above from the same place, was Kāḍavaṉ-Mādēviyār, also known as Pṛithivīmāṇikkam, 1and the liquid measure of the temple was called Pirudimāṇikkam evidently after her name. It was probably after this queen that the Vishṇu temple at Ukkal in the North Arcot district was called Bhuvaṉimāṇikka-Vishṇugṛiham. 1

Text.

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] konirupatuṅkatevarkku 2yāṇṭu 15- āvatu arikaṇṭaperumāḷ pakkal eyiṟ koṭṭattup pu[l]ve-

⟨2⟩ ḷūr sahaiyār koṇṭukaṭava poṉ- 30 ippoṉ muppatiṉ kaḻañcukkum palicaiyākat tiruvālaṅkāṭu-

⟨3⟩ ṭaiyārkku ivvūr sabhai yār ceyyakkaṭava nimantam uṭaiyārkku tirunantāviḷakku iraṇṭuk kup pirutimāṇi-

⟨4⟩ kkattināl nitta muṭṭāmal aḷakkak kaṭava eṇṇai uri [||*]

⟨SIIv12p0i0067⟩ No. 67. (A.R. No. 404 of 1905). KĀVĒRIPPĀKKAM, ARKONAM TALUK, NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT. AT THE ENTRANCE INTO THE AMMAN SHRINE IN THE KOṄKAṆĪŚVARA TEMPLE.

This inscription states that in the 15th year of Nṛipatuṅgavarman, the assembly of Kāvidipākkam [alias] Avaṉinārāyaṇa-chaturvēdimaṅgalam agreed to measure one uḻakku of oil daily by the liquid measure Māṉāya-nāḻi, for lighting the central shrine of the temple of Tirumēṟṟaḷi-Aḍigaḷ, with the interest on 17 kaḻañju of gold received by them from Śaḍaṅkaviyār of Kaṇviḻchchil in Ōḍappuṟai. The name Avaṉinārāyaṇachaturvēdimaṅgalam must have been given to Kāvidipākkam after the surname ‘Avaṉinārāyaṇa’ 4borne by Nandivarman III.

The record is left incomplete and it is engraved in characters of the 11th century A.D. The stone bearing this record must have belonged originally to a temple of Vishṇu (Tirumēṟṟaḷi-Aḍigaḷ) in the village and was probably shifted here at some later time.

Text.

⟨1⟩ nṛpa toṅkaparmma [rk*]ku yāṇṭu patiṉaintāvatu kā[vi]tipākkamum avaṉinārā-

⟨2⟩ yaṇaccaturvvē timaṅkalattu sabhai yom oṭappuṟaik kaṇviḻccil caṭaṅka-

⟨3⟩ viyār pakkal patiṉeḻu kaḻañcu poṉkoṇṭu emmūr tirumeṟṟaḷi aṭikaḷukku u-

⟨4⟩ ṇṇāḻikai[p*]puṟam nicati uḻakkeṇṇai māṉāyaṉāḻiy[o]ṭokkum uḻakkiṉāl pakal 5

⟨SIIv12p0i0068⟩ No. 68. (A.R. No. 258 of 1912). PARAMĒŚVARAMAṄGALAM, MADURANTAKAM TALUK, CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT. ON A SLAB NEAR THE GAṆĒŚA IMAGE OUTSIDE THE KAILĀSANĀTHA TEMPLE.

This inscription records that a Brahman lady Dēvachchāṉi, wife of Daṇḍiyaṅkiḻār Pāṇḍiya-Kramavittar set up the image of Gaṇapati-Bhaṭāra in the temple of Śailēśvaram at Paramēśvaramaṅ[ga]lam, constructed a shrine for it and endowed 40 kāḍi of paddy for twilight lamps and worship to the deity.

3) This form of the king's name, as suggested in fn. l, on the previous page, is unusual. ⟨Page 29⟩

The record is dated simply in the 15th year, but the king's name is not mentioned. Since the other face of the slab contains an inscription of Nṛipatuṅga, dated in his 16th year 1which closely resembles the present inscription in its writing, this epigraph also may be assigned to the reign of the same king.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] yāṇṭu patiṉaintā-

⟨2⟩ vatu paramēśva ramag[ka*]lattu śai-

⟨3⟩ lēśva rattu gaṇavatibha ṭārarai vaiy-

⟨4⟩ ttuk k[o*]yil leṭuppitt[ā*]r taṇ ṭiya-

⟨5⟩ ṅkiḻār pāṇṭiyakra mavittar brāhma-

⟨6⟩ ṇi tevaccāṉi tāṉeṭuppitta taḷik-

⟨7⟩ ku arccanābhōga (m)māka vaitta nel

⟨8⟩ mutal n[ā]ṟpatiṉ kāṭi [|*] ivaittil va-

⟨9⟩ rddhamānam koṇṭu tiṅkaḷnālvi-

⟨10⟩ yum antiviḷakkum arcca naiyu-

⟨11⟩ m [|*] ipparicu vaḻuvāmaic cey-

⟨12⟩ vomāka innāṟpatiṉ k[ā*]ṭiyum

⟨13⟩ koṇṭom taḷiyuṭaiyyāka 2civa-

⟨14⟩ catti civakurava civanakka civakāma ci [||*]

⟨SIIv12p0i0069⟩ No. 69. (A.R. No. 257 of 1912). ON THE BACK SIDE OF THE SAME WALL.

This record states that, in the 16th year of Nṛipatuṅgavarman, the committee (gaṇapperumakkaḷ) of the temple called Śailēśvaram agreed to provide offerings during the mid-day service of the god Mahādēva at Śailēśvaram in Paramēśvaramaṅgalam in lieu of the interest on 11 kaḻañju of gold received by them from Nandi-Niṟaimati, son of Maṟamaḍakki-Viḻuppēraraiyar of Maṇṇaikuḍi.

Udayachandra, the general of the Pallava king Nandivarman Pallavamalla claims to have defeated a Pāṇḍya king at Maṇṇaikkuḍi 3and if ‘Maṇṇaikuḍi Maṟamaḍakki’ is taken as an epithet of Viḻuppēraraiyar in the sense of ‘he who humbled the pride (of the enemy) at Maṇṇaikkuḍi’, it may be presumed that one of the ancestors of Viḻuppēraraiyar had taken some part in the Pallava campaigns. But as there are villages actually known by the names of Maṇṇakkuḍi and Maṟamaḍakki in the Arantangi taluk of the Tanjore district, it is also possible that the native village and hamlet of this Viḻuppēraraiyar are simply mentioned in this inscription (i.e.) Viḻuppēraraiyar of Maṟamaḍakki near Maṇṇaikkuḍi.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] nṛpa tuṅkava-

⟨2⟩ rmma ṟku yāṇṭu patiṉāṟāvatu pa-

⟨3⟩ ramēśvara maṅkalattu śailēśva-

⟨4⟩ ra ttu mah[ā*]dē varkku madhyāhna ve[ḷai]-

⟨5⟩ yiṟ ṟiruvamutukku maṇṇaiku-

⟨6⟩ ṭi maṟamaṭakki viḻupperaraiyar ma-

⟨7⟩ ka nnanti niṟaimati śailēśva-

⟨8⟩ rattuk kaṇapperumakkaḷ vaḻikuṭut-

⟨9⟩ ta cempoṉ patiṉoru kaḻañci [|*] itaṉ

⟨10⟩ poliyūṭṭiṉā ṉicati nāṭuri kutta lariciyu-

⟨11⟩ moru piṭi neyyu mappotu kāṭṭum viḷa-

⟨12⟩ kkiṉukku oru piṭi eṇṇaiyyu muṭṭāmai-

⟨13⟩ c celuttuvo māṉog kaṇappe-

⟨14⟩ rumakkaḷom [|*] itu ma h[ā*]sabhai rakṣai [||*] 4 ⟨Page 30⟩

⟨SIIv12p0i0070⟩ No. 70. (A.R. No. 162 of 1912). TIRUVOṞṞIYŪR, SAIDAPET TALUK, CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT. ON A SLAB IN THE VERANDAH ROUND THE CENTRAL SHRINE OF THE ĀDHIPURĪŚVARA TEMPLE.

This record is dated in the 18th year of Vijaya-Nṛipatuṅgavarman. It states that the assembly of Maṇali near Tiruvoṟṟiyūr agreed to provide offerings on the day of saṅkrānti every month to the god Mahādēva of Tiruvoṟṟiyūr for the interest on 5 kaḻañju of gold received by them from Paḻiyan Pilli, wife of Viḍēlviḍugu-Pallavaraiyar who was probably a local chief in charge of Umbaḷa-nāḍu (see plate VI).

Text.

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] kovicai-

⟨2⟩ ya nā patuṅkavarmma kku

⟨3⟩ yāṇṭu patiṉeṭṭāvatu

⟨4⟩ tiruvoṟṟi[yū]rppuṟattu

⟨5⟩ maṇali sabhai yom

⟨6⟩ emmuruṭaiya mahādē-

⟨7⟩ varkku umpaḷanāṭṭu viṭe-

⟨8⟩ lviṭuku pallavarai-

⟨9⟩ yar [dēvi] yāri[ṟ] paḻiya-

⟨10⟩ [n] pilli kuṭutta po-

⟨11⟩ ṉ ūrkkaṟ cemmai

⟨12⟩ [ayg 1]kaḻañcu i-

⟨13⟩ [y] [poṉayṅka 1][ḻañcu po*]-

⟨14⟩ ṉ koṇṭu celutta-

⟨15⟩ kkaṭavomāyiṉa pari(ca)-

⟨16⟩ cāvatu [|*] cenneṟ kutta[ṟ]

⟨17⟩ paḻavarici karunāḻiyiṉā[l*]

⟨18⟩ nāṉāḻiyum uḻakku ne-

⟨19⟩ yyu m(ā)ṭukkilaiyu m[ai]-

⟨20⟩ ntu k[ā]yum nālupaḻa[mu*]m sa g-

⟨21⟩ kirānti toṟum muṭṭāmai

⟨22⟩ ni[lai]ppoliyūṭṭākat ti-

⟨23⟩ ṅka ṭoṟumāka kuṭup-

⟨24⟩ pomāṉom muṭṭuvatā-

⟨25⟩ yiṟ dharmmādha nattu nicati nā[l]e-

⟨26⟩ [kāl] kāṇam paṭuvom-

⟨27⟩ māṉom paṭṭum po-

⟨28⟩ liyūṭṭu muṭṭāmai [caṉ]- 2

⟨SIIv12p0i0071⟩ No. 71. (A.R. No. 360 of 1921). TIRUVADI, CUDDALORE TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT. ON A PILLAR IN THE ARDHA-MAṆḌAPA OF THE TIRUVĪRAṬṬĀNĒŚVARA TEMPLE.

This record of Nṛipatuṅgavarman is dated in his 18th year and registers a gift of 570 kaḻañju of gold to the Nagarattār of Adiyaraiyamaṅgalam by the Pāṇḍya king Varaguṇa-Mahārāja, for providing, with the interest on the amount, certain specified offerings to the god Tiruvīraṭṭānattu-Mahādēva of that village.

The importance of the present inscription lies in the fact that the Pāṇḍya king Varaguṇavarman figures as a contemporary of and probably a subordinate under the Pallava king Nṛipatuṅgavarman. 3

Text.

First face.

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] nṛ pato-

⟨2⟩ ṅkapanma ṟku [yāṇṭu]

⟨3⟩ patineṭṭāvatu [a]-

⟨4⟩ ti[ya]raiyamaṅka-

⟨5⟩ lattu tiruviraṭṭā-

⟨6⟩ nattu ma hādēva-

⟨7⟩ rkku [p]āṇ

⟨8⟩ [ṭi] varakuṇama hārā-

⟨9⟩ jaṉ kuṭutta poṉ

⟨10⟩ aññūṟṟeḻupatiṉ ka-

⟨11⟩ ḻañcu ippoṉ koṇ-

⟨12⟩ ṭu kaṭavom atiyarai-

⟨13⟩ yamaṅkalattu nakara-

⟨14⟩ ttom [|*] ippoṉni-

⟨15⟩ l irunūṟṟuttoṇṇū-

⟨16⟩ ṟṟuk kaḻañcu poṉnā- ⟨Page 31⟩

⟨17⟩ l palicaiyāl nicati

⟨18-19⟩ damaged

⟨20⟩ •• [mun]nā[ḻi uri]-

⟨21⟩ kkum [me]ṟṟi pa[tiṟ]

⟨22⟩ [ṟu]nāḻi ari[ciyum]••

⟨23⟩ poḻutukku uri pacca-

⟨24⟩ payaṟṟupparuppu kum-

⟨25⟩ māya muḷḷiṭṭa añcukā-

⟨26⟩ yum poḻutu puḷi[ṅkaṟi]-

⟨27⟩ kku uḻakku tayirum po-

⟨28⟩ ḻutu kaṟikku kā-

⟨29⟩ yam mirucce[vi](ṭa)ṭu[m*]

⟨30⟩ poḻutu kaṟi tu[mi]kka-

⟨31⟩ c cevi(ṭ)ṭu neyum

Second face.

⟨32⟩ nivetikka naṟune-

⟨33⟩ y potu uḻakkā-

⟨34⟩ ka nālu poḻutukku-

⟨35⟩ m meṟṟi ney nāḻi

⟨36⟩ nivetikka poḻutu-

⟨37⟩ kkuṉ tayir uri nālu

⟨38⟩ poḻutume [||*]

⟨SIIv12p0i0072⟩ No. 72. (A.R. No. 175 of 1930). PIḶḶAIPĀKKAM, SRIPERUMBUDUR TALUK, CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT. ON A SLAB BUILT INTO THE STEPS OF THE KĀḶĪ TEMPLE.

This is a curious inscription dated in the 20th year of Nṛipatuṅga containing animprecation on people who stored paddy on the talam of the village.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*]

⟨2⟩ nṛ (ru)pa[to]g-

⟨3⟩ ka[r]kku yāṇ-

⟨4⟩ ṭu irupatāva-

⟨5⟩ tu ivvūṟṟa-

⟨6⟩ [la]ttu [ne]lla-

⟨7⟩ [ṭ]ṭuvār kaṅkai-

⟨8⟩ iṭai kumari-

⟨9⟩ yiṭaic cey-

⟨10⟩ tār ceyta

⟨11⟩ pāvam paṭuvā-

⟨12⟩ r [ne]l laṭṭi-

⟨13⟩ ṉāru maṭṭa vuṭaṉ-

⟨14⟩ paṭṭāruñ•

⟨15⟩ ta••

⟨16⟩ •• 1

⟨SIIv12p0i0073⟩ No. 73. (A.R. No. 367 of 1921). TIRUVADI, CUDDALORE TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT. ON A PILLAR IN THE ARDHA-MAṆḌAPA OF THE TIRUVĪRAṬṬĀNĒŚVARA TEMPLE.

This is a damaged record of Nṛipatuṅgapōttaraiyar dated in his 22nd year and it registers a grant of 50 kaḻañju of gold to the temple of Tiruvīraṭṭāṉattu-Mahādēva, by (queen ?) Vīra-Mādēviyār.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] nṛ-

⟨2⟩ pa toṅkap-

⟨3⟩ pottaraiya[r]-

⟨4⟩ kku yāṇṭu iru-

⟨5⟩ pattiraṇṭāvatu

⟨6⟩ viramādē viyar•

⟨7⟩ •• n vāḻum tu[la]-

⟨8⟩ [vār]muṭi pakka•

⟨9⟩ po[n]• tiruvira-

⟨10⟩ ṭṭāṉattu mahā-

⟨11⟩ dē varkku kuṭutta

⟨12⟩ poṉ aimpatiṉ

⟨13⟩ kaḻañcu itiṟṟu-

⟨14⟩ ḷ irupat[t]aig-

⟨15⟩ kaḻañci•••

⟨16⟩ ta••• 2 ⟨Page 32⟩

⟨SIIv12p0i0074⟩ No. 74. (A.R. No. 38 of 1930-31). TIRUKKŌḌIKKĀVAL, KUMBAKONAM TALUK, TANJORE DISTRICT. ON THE SOUTH WALL OF THE CENTRAL SHRINE IN THE TIRUKKŌḌĪŚVARA TEMPLE.

This record of the 22nd year, like No. 55 above, is prefaced by the remark that ‘this is also a copy of an old stone inscription’. It is preceded by a record of the Pāṇḍya king Māṟaṉ Śaḍaiyaṉ (A.R. No. 37 of 1930-31) and followed by an epigraph of the Muttaraiyar chief Iḷaṅgō-Muttaraiyar (A.R. No. 39 of 1930-31), all of which are engraved in continuation of one another. It has been pointed out above (No. 55) that the temple at Tirukkōḍikkāval was renovated by Śembiyaṉ-Mādēviyār, the mother of the Chōḷa king Uttama-Chōḷa and that she took care to re-engrave on the new walls the old inscriptions found in the temple.

The present record does not give the king's name, but from the mention therein of Vīra-Mahādēviyār, the queen of Nṛipatuṅga-Mahārāja, it may be ascribed to Nṛipatuṅga himself. It gives the interesting information that this queen performed the hiraṇyagarbha and tulābhāra ceremonies, evidently at Tirukkōḍikkā and presented 50 kaḻañju of gold from the wealth so weighed, to the temple of Mahādēva in the village for offerings and lamp. The assembly of Tirukkōḍikkāvu alias Kaṇṇamaṅgalam received the money and undertook to conduct the endowment. Queen Vīra-Mahādēviyār is known to epigraphy for the first time only from this record.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] ituvum moru paḻaṅkalpaṭi [||*] yāṇṭu [irupattiraṇ](ṭ)ṭu nṛpa toṅkama hā rāja[r*] dē viyār viramahādē viyār hiraṇyagarbhamu tulāpāra[mum] pukka poṉṉil tiruk koṭikāvil mahā•••••

⟨2⟩ tta poṉ aimpatiṉ kaḻañcu itaṉil irupattaig kaḻañcu poṉṉiṉ palicaiyāl nicati irunāḻi ariciyum oru piṭi ne[yyu]m taḷi arcci[p*]pār kai•••••

⟨3⟩ l nicati uḻakku ney taḷi aṟcippār kaiyyile noṉtāviḷakki[ṉu*]kku kuṭu[p*]pomāṉom tirukkoṭikāvāṉa kaṇṇamaṅkalattu sabhai yom itu paḻaṅkalpaṭi [|*] i••• •••

⟨4⟩ ubhaiyōga m illāmaiyil atu tavintatu itu muṭṭil paṉmāyeśva rar kaṭaikkūṭṭappeṟṟār 1[||*]

⟨SIIv12p0i0075⟩ No. 75. (A.R. No. 179 of 1915). TIRUMUKKŪḌAL, CONJEEVERAM TALUK, CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT. ON A SLAB SUPPORTING A BEAM SET UP IN THE INNER ENCLOSURE OF THE VEṄKAṬĒŚA-PERUMĀḶ TEMPLE.

This record states that, in the 24th year of Vijaya-Nṛipatuṅgavikramavarman, the assembly of Śīyapuram in Ūṟṟukkāṭṭuk-kōṭṭam agreed to maintain a perpetual lamp in the temple of Vishṇu-Bhaṭāra at Tirumukkūḍal for the interest on 30 kaḻañju of gold received by them from Arigaṇḍa-Perumāṉār, 2son of Kāḍupaṭṭi-Muttaraiyar. The interest on 30 kaḻañju came to 4(1/2) kaḻañju, calculating at the rate of 3 mañjāḍi per kaḻañju. For this 4(1/2) kaḻañju the assembly of Śīyapuram agreed to supply oil at a uniform rate of 40 nāḻi per kaḻañju for maintaining the lamp. Paḻaiyaśivaram near Tirumukkūḍal is called Śīyapuram in inscriptions.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [|*] kovi-

⟨2⟩ caiya nṛpa toṅkavi-

⟨3⟩ kki ramaparuma[r*]kku yāṇṭu iru-

⟨4⟩ pattunālāvatu kāṭupaṭṭi

⟨5⟩ muttaraiyar makaṉār ari-

⟨6⟩ kaṇṭaperumāṉārkku ūṟṟu-

⟨7⟩ kkāṭṭukko[ṭ*]ṭattu ciyapu-

⟨8⟩ rattu sabhai yo(m) moṭ-

⟨9⟩ ṭik kuṭutta paricāvatu [|*] tirumu-

⟨10⟩ kkūṭal viṣṇubhaṭā ra[r*]kku nuntā-

⟨11⟩ viḷa[k*] kerippataṟku eṅka-

⟨12⟩ ḷ kaiyi(l)ṟ ṟanta poṉ ⟨Page 33⟩

⟨13⟩ muppatiṉ kaḻañciṉā-

⟨14⟩ lum poliyūṭṭu āṇṭu-

⟨15⟩ varaiy kaḻañciṉvāy

⟨16⟩ muṉṟu mañcāṭi poṉ

⟨17⟩ āyaṉpaṭiyāl nāṟka-

⟨18⟩ ḻañcaraiyālum eṟilu-

⟨19⟩ ñ curuṅkilug kaḻañcu-

⟨20⟩ kku nāṟpatiṉāḻippaṭi e-

⟨21⟩ ṇṇai nūṟṟeṇpatinā-

⟨22⟩ ḻiyālum iravum pakalu 1

⟨SIIv12p0i0076⟩ No. 76. (A.R. No. 60 of 1923). PUDUPPĀKKAM, CONJEEVERAM TALUK, CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT. ON A SLAB BUILT INTO THE FLOOR OF THE MAṆḌAPA IN FRONT OF THE SAPTAMĀTṚI SHRINE IN THE ŚELLIYAMMAN TEMPLE.

This fragmentary record is dated in the 24th year of a king whose name is partially lost and registers a gift of land as bhaṭṭavṛitti by Śivanandi••• of Śūnṟūr and another, whose name is lost, both members of the āḷum-gaṇa of Nal[lil]maṅgalam in Mēṟpaḷugūr-nāḍu, a subdivision of [Maṇa]yiṟ-kōṭṭam.

From its palaeography the record may be attributed to the 9th century A.D. and considering the high regnal year, it can be taken as belonging to Nṛipatuṅgappōttaraiyar.

Text.

⟨1⟩ •••••• ppottaraiya[r*]kku yāṇ ṭirupattunā-

⟨2⟩ •••••• [yi]ṟkoṭṭattu meṟpaḷukūrnāṭṭu nal-

⟨3⟩ •••••• [yā]ḷum kaṇattāruḷ [cū]nṟūr civananti-

⟨4⟩ •••••• vūrkku bha ṭṭavirtti yāka irunūṟṟuk kaḻañ-

⟨5⟩ •••••• ponnāl vanta nilam epporppaṭṭa iṟai-

⟨6⟩ •••••• mānom [||*]

⟨SIIv12p0i0077⟩ No. 77. (A.R. No. 414 of 1923). PĒRAṆAKKĀVŪR, CONJEEVERAM TALUK, CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT.

This is a damaged record of the same king dated in his 24th year.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*]

⟨2⟩ kovicaiya-

⟨3⟩ nra patoṅkapo-

⟨4⟩ ttatevaṟku yā-

⟨5⟩ ṇṭu iru[pattu]nāl-

⟨6⟩ kāva[tu]••• kkāp-

⟨7⟩ puramu••• ka [ce]-

⟨8⟩ ññūr••••

⟨9⟩ ṭṭate[va]•••

⟨10⟩ yom••••

⟨11⟩ [ceṟu]•••••

⟨12⟩ ••••• vvūr

⟨13⟩ ••••• [vatā]-

⟨14⟩ [ṉa i]tiruvamutu•

⟨SIIv12p0i0078⟩ No. 78. (A.R. No. 22 of 1930-31). TIRUKKŌḌIKĀVAL, KUMBAKONAM TALUK, TANJORE DISTRICT. ON THE WEST WALL OF THE CENTRAL SHRINE IN THE TIRUKKŌḌĪŚVARA TEMPLE.

This record of the 24th year of Vijaya-Nṛipatuṅgavikramavarman, like No. 74 above, is stated to be a copy of an old stone inscription. It is engraved in continuation of a record of the Pāṇḍya king Māṟañjaḍaiyaṉ (A.R. No. 21 of 1930-31) and followed by an inscription of the Chōḷa king Rājakēsarivarmaṉ (A.R. No. 23 of 1930-31). It registers an agreement made by the assembly of Nāraṇakka-chaturvēdimaṅgalam to burn a perpetual lamp in the temple of Mahādēva at Tirukkōḍikāvu for the interest on 15 kaḻañju of gold received by them from Veṭṭuvadi-Araiyaṉ alias Mallaṉ Vēṅgaḍavaṉ of Koṇḍa-nāḍu. ⟨Page 34⟩

Text.

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] ituvum moru paḻaṅkalpaṭi [|*] kovicaya

⟨2⟩ nṛ patoṅkavikra mapanma ṟku yāṇṭu irupattunālāvatu tirukkoṭikāvil ma hādē varkku nōntā viḷakkiṉukku koṇṭanāṭuṭaiya veṭṭuvatiaraiyaṉāṉa mallaṉ ve [g]kaṭavaṉ kuṭutta poṉ patiṉaiṅkaḻañcu ippon1koṇṭu itaṉ palicaiyāl nālu-

⟨3⟩ ḻakkum piḻaiyānāḻikkiḻ muḻaiyāl nicati uḻakku ney taḷi ar[c*]ci[p*][pāṟ]ku kuṇantu aḷantu kuṭuppommāṉo(m) [mā]cantirakālamu maḷantu kuṭuppomāṉo[m] nāraṇakkaccatu- rvē timaṅkalattu sabhai yom [|*] itu paḻayakalpaṭi [|*] i-

⟨4⟩ nta śrīvimānattile eṟa veṭṭinamaiyil muṉṉivājaga m veṭṭikkiṭanta taṉi[k*]kallāl ubh aiyokam illāmaiyāl atu tavi(ṉ)nta tu [|*] itu muṭṭil paṉmāyeśva ra[r*] kaṭai[kūṭṭa peṟṟār [||*]

⟨SIIv12p0i0079⟩ No. 79. (A.R. No. 397 of 1905). KĀVĒRIPPĀKKAM, ARKONAM TALUK, NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT. ON A STONE BUILT INTO THE CEILING OF THE MAṆḌAPA IN FRONT OF THE CENTRAL SHRINE IN THE VARADARĀJA-PERUMĀḶ TEMPLE.

This is a damaged record of Vijaya-Nṛipatuṅgavikrama[varman] dated in the 25th year recording an agreement made by the assembly of Avaninārāyaṇa-chaturvēdimaṅgalam to supply one uḻakku of oil daily to a maṭha. The Śaṭṭapperumakkaḷ mentioned here was probaly a governing body of the maṭha.

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⟨1⟩ •• kovicaiya nirupatoṅkavikkiramapa••• yāṇṭu irupattaintāvatu•• ••••

⟨2⟩ •• mākiya avaninārāyaṇaccati[rvetima]ṅkalattu sabhai yom•••••

⟨3⟩ •• ka maṭattu caṭṭapperumakkaḷukku maṭa[t*]tu••• uḻakkeṇṇaikku veṇṭum ••••••

⟨4⟩ •• [kar] āḷvāṉ nicati uḻakkeṇṇaiyu•••• kal ivar pakkal poṉ ko[ṇ]•••••

⟨5⟩ •• vvāṇṭu cilālē kai cey[ti]••• ippaṇiyāl ivvāṭṭai••••

⟨6⟩ •• yati uḻakkeṇ[ṇai]yum ūr āḷvāṉe aṭṭuva••• cilālekai cetu kuṭuttom 2[||*]

⟨SIIv12p0i0080⟩ No. 80. (A.R. No. 172 of 1930). PIḶḶAIPPĀKKAM, SRIPERUMBUDUR TALUK, CHINGEEPUT DISTRICT. ON THE BASE OF THE CENTRAL SHRINE OF THE RUINED ŚIVA TEMPLE.

This is a damaged record of Nṛipatuṅgavikramavarman dated is his 2* year and it registers a gift of 6 mā of land for providing offerings to the god Mahādēva at Piḷḷaippākkam by a certain Ayyakkuṭṭiyār for the merit of his elder brother Piḷḷaippākkiḻār of Piḷḷaippā[kka*]m.

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⟨1⟩ sva[sti*] śrī [||*] nṛpa tuṅkavikkiramaparumaṟku yāṇṭu iru[pa]•• [va]tu pi[ḷḷai]ppā[kka*]ttup piḷḷaippākkiḻār••• [pi]yārkkut dharmma mākamahādē varkku nāṭ••

⟨2⟩ poṉakag kāṭṭuvataṟku ivar tampiyār ayyakkuṭṭiyār kuṭutta nilam puṟampāṭṭile [ā]ṟumā nilam ittevarai vaḻipaṭum tiruppācūraṉukkum mutti•• ipparicu kāṭṭak kuṭutteṉ ipparicu muṭṭil unae 3taṇṭa[ppa]-

⟨3⟩ ṭuvān ṉāka[vum] [||*] ⟨Page 35⟩

⟨SIIv12p0i0081⟩ No. 81. (A.R. No. 172-A of 1929-30). ON THE SAME BASE.

This fragmentary inscription of the same king is engraved in continuation of the above record and it registers a gift of 7 mā of land to the temple by a certain [Pā]dirikiḻār Śiṅgaṉ. The regnal year of the king is lost.

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] nṛūpa toṅkarkku yāṇṭu••• [pura]ttup pātirikiḻār ciṅkaṉ mah[ā*] dē varkku•• vi••

⟨2⟩ cceṟuvu eḻumāvug kuṭutteṉ tiru••• cantrā titavar [tiru]nandā viḷakku kāṭṭu vomāṉom iddharmam rakṣi ppom ūrom itu muṭṭi••• 1

⟨SIIv12p0i0082⟩ No. 82. (A.R. No. 394 of 1905). KĀVĒRIPPĀKKAM, ARKONAM TALUK, NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT. ON A STONE BUILT INTO THE NORTH WALL OF THE MAṆḌAPA IN FRONT OF THE CENTRAL SHRINE IN THE VARADARĀJA-PERUMĀḶ TEMPLE.

The date of this fragmentary inscription of Nṛipatuṅgavarman is partly lost. It mentions the assembly of Kāvidippā[kkam] alias Amaninārāyaṇa-chaturvēdimaṅgalam and Viḍēlviḍugu•• in Māṅgāḍu-nāḍu, a subdivision of Paḍuvūr-kōṭṭam.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] nirupa 2togkavarmma [r*]kku yāṇṭu pati••

⟨2⟩ vatu paṭuvūrkkoṭṭattu māṅkāṭunāṭṭu viṭelviṭu 3ku••

⟨3⟩ yamattu sabhai yom ikkoṭṭattuk kāvitippā••

⟨4⟩ ya amaninārāyaṇaccaturvvē timaṅkalam yāḷu••

⟨5⟩ tāruḷ aṅkāṇacca[n](yai) vasanta yājiyār pa 5

⟨SIIv12p0i0083⟩ No. 83. (A.R. No. 108 of 1933-34). ACHCHARAVĀKKAM, CHINGLEPUT TALUK AND DISTRICT. ON A SLAB LYING NEAR THE AGASTĪŚVARA TEMPLE.

This is an incomplete record of Nṛipatuṅgavarman, the date of which is, however, lost. It records a gift of 800 kuḻi of land as archchanābhōga to provide for worship to the god Agattiśrīttēvar (Agastīśvara) by a certain Śaṅkaṉ.

Text.

⟨1⟩ śrī nṛ patuṅkaparm[ma]rkku [yāṇṭu]•••

⟨2⟩ caṅkaṉ viṟṟukkoṇṭu arccaṉāpokañ-

⟨3⟩ ceyta nilam viraṉceṟuvug kaḻuvalug

⟨4⟩ koṭumāṭiyug kāḻiyu[m]āka eṇ-

⟨5⟩ ṇūṟu kuḻiyum aga ttiśrīttevar-

⟨6⟩ kku kkuṭutta dharmmam rakṣi ppāraṭi e-

⟨7⟩ ṉ ṟalai melaṉa [|*] i[vai vilaiyu moṟṟi]-

⟨8⟩ yuñ cellā [||*]

4 The letter m is engraved below the line. ⟨Page 36⟩

⟨SIIv12p0i0084⟩ APARAJITAVARMAN No. 84. (A.R. No. 62 of 1923). PUDUPPĀKKAM, CONJEEVERAM TALUK, CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT. ON A SLAB LYING IN THE COMPOUND OF THE ŚELLIYAMMAN TEMPLE.

This is a fragmentary inscription of Aparā[jitavarman] dated in his 3rd year. It seems to register a remission of taxes by the assembly of Nallil[maṅgalam], which is also mentioned in a record of [Rāja]kēsarivarman from the same village (No. 61 of 1923). Nallilmaṅgalam is probably identical with the modern Puduppākkam itself.

Text.

⟨1⟩ ••• caiya aparā-

⟨2⟩ ••• yāṇṭu muṉ-

⟨3⟩ ••• yiṟkoṭṭattu

⟨4⟩ ••• ṭṭu nallilma-

⟨5⟩ ••• yom iṟaiyiḻi-

⟨6⟩ ••• k kaiyyeḻuttu

⟨7⟩ ••• ṇattāruḷ aḷa-

⟨8⟩ ••• makkaḷ nallāin-

⟨9⟩ ••• kkaḷum marumakkaḷu-

⟨10⟩ ••• [y]om poṉ ko-

⟨11⟩ ••• santa yājiyār [ta]-

⟨12⟩ ••• maṭa[p*]puṟam ivvūr

⟨13⟩ ••• [va]rippaṭi āṟaraimā-

⟨14⟩ ••• taṭi muṟṟum

⟨15⟩ ••• nta iṟai epperp-

⟨16⟩ ••• nāyaṟu mau•

⟨17⟩ ••• ṉom sabhaiyō-

⟨18⟩ ••• [ḻi]ṭṭu anyōnyasa-

⟨19⟩ ••• tomānom apa rā-

⟨20⟩ ••• paṇi[t*]tom sabhaiyō-

⟨21⟩ ••• [vā]r viṣṇulōka [prā] 1

⟨SIIv12p0i0085⟩ No. 85. (A.R. No. 351 of 1908). MĀṄGĀḌU, SRIPERUMBUDUR TALUK, CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT. ON A SLAB BUILT INTO THE FLOOR OF THE CENTRAL SHRINE IN THE VAḶḶĪŚVARA TEMPLE.

This is a mutilted incription, also dated in the 3rd year of Vijaya-Aparājitavarman. It registers a gift of gold for a lamp and offerings to the god Tiruveḷḷikīḻ-Mahādēva at Māṅgāḍu by the mother of•• kka-Mahādēviyār, who was related to•• piḍugu Taḷittēvanār of Kachchippēḍu.

The puḷḷi is invariably marked in this record.

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] kovicaiya-

⟨2⟩ parājitavarmma ṟku yāṇ[ṭu]

⟨3⟩ muṉṟāvatu māṅkāṭṭu[t]

⟨4⟩ tiruveḷḷikiḻmahā[dēva]-

⟨5⟩ rkku oru nandā viḷakkiṟkum••

⟨6⟩ [ru]mpoḻtaikku oru tiruvamu•

⟨7⟩ kumākak kaccippeṭṭu[k]••

⟨8⟩ piṭuku taḷittevanār ma•••

⟨9⟩ kka mahādē viyār tāyār••

⟨10⟩ rinaṅkaiyār vaitta po••

⟨11⟩ pattirukaḻañcu ippoṉ••

⟨12⟩ candrāditya ruḷḷavaḷavun 2

⟨SIIv12p0i0086⟩ No. 86. (A.R. No. 31 of 1912). SATYAVĒḌU, PONNERI TALUK, CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT. ON A STONE LYING IN THE COURTYARD OF THE MĀTAṄGĒŚVARA TEMPLE.

This inscription, dated in the 4th year of Aparājitavarman, registers a gift of the village Tuṟaiyūr including its income in gold and puravu for conducting worship in the temple of Mahādēva at Tirumataṅgaṉpaḷḷi 3in Tekkūr-nāḍu, ⟨Page 37⟩ a subdivision of Paiyyūr-Iḷaṅkōṭṭam, by Kumārandai Kuṟumbarādittan 1alias Kāḍupaṭṭippēraraiyaṉ who is stated to have belonged to Śēra-nāḍu.

The term puravu 2may be explained as a tax on land, which was collected either in kind or coin (cf. puravu-poṉ: S.I.I. Vol. II, p. 512). A special department called puravuvari-tiṇaikkaḷam seems to have managed its collection. Tuṟaiyūr which is said to have been situated in Tekkūr-nāḍu may be identified with the village of the same name in the Madurantakam taluk of the Chingleput district.

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*]

⟨2⟩ kova[pa*]rāyitapaṟmaṟku yāṇ-

⟨3⟩ ṭu nālāvatu paiyyūriḷag-

⟨4⟩ koṭṭattut tekkūrnāṭ-

⟨5⟩ ṭut tirumataṅkaṉpaḷ-

⟨6⟩ ḷi ma hādē vaṟku innāṭ-

⟨7⟩ ṭut tuṟaiyūrp [po]ṉṉu-

⟨8⟩ m puravum maṭaṅka arccanā-

⟨9⟩ bhōga mākak kuṭutteṉ

⟨10⟩ ceranāṭuṭaiya kumāran-

⟨11⟩ tai kuṟumparātittanāki-

⟨12⟩ ya kāṭupaṭṭip perarai-

⟨13⟩ yaṉeṉ [|*] ittaṉma-

⟨14⟩ m rakṣittā ṉaṭi yeṉ

⟨15⟩ ṟa laimalaṉa [||*]

⟨SIIv12p0i0087⟩ No. 87. (A.R. No. 158 of 1912). TIRUVOṞṞIYŪR, SAIDAPET TALUK, CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT. ON A SLAB BUILT INTO THE FLOOR OF THE VERANDAH ROUND THE CENTRAL SHRINE IN THE ĀDHIPURĪŚVARA TEMPLE.

This record of Vijaya-Aparājitavarman, dated in his 4th year, registers an agreement made by the sabhā and the amṛita-gaṇa of Ādambākkam, a suburb of Tiruvoṟṟiyūr to burn a perpetual lamp in the temple of Mahādēva at Tiruvoṟṟiyūr in lieu of the interest on 30 kaḻañju of gold received by them from Amatti alias Kuṟumbakōḷali, the mistress of Vayiramēgaṉ alias Vāṇakōvarayar, who is referred to as the son of a certain Perunaṅgai. The influence of Vāṇakōvarayar who was probably a local chieftain, seems to have extended as far as Maṇampūṇḍi in the South Arcot district (A.R. No. 233 of 1934-35).

The interest on 30 kaḻañju was calculated at 3 mañjāḍi per kaḻañju (i.e. at 15 per cent).

The puḷḷis are invariably marked in the record.

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] kovicaiya aparāji-

⟨2⟩ tavarmma ṟku yāṇṭu nālāvatu perunag-

⟨3⟩ kai makaṉ vayiramekaṉākiya vāṇako-

⟨4⟩ varayar bhōgi a mattiyāyiṉa kuṟu-

⟨5⟩ mpakoḷali tiruvoṟṟiyūr mahādē-

⟨6⟩ vark koru nandā viḷak kerippataṟku vai-

⟨7⟩ [t]ta poṉ ṉūrkkaṟcemmai muppatiṉ

⟨8⟩ kaḻañcu ippoṉ koṇṭu kaṭavon

⟨9⟩ tiruvoṟṟiyūrppuṟattu āta m-

⟨10⟩ pākkattu sabhai yomum amṛtaga-

⟨11⟩ ṇattomum [|*] ippoṉṉāl yā-

⟨12⟩ ṇṭuvarai kaḻañciṉvāy muṉṟu ma-

⟨13⟩ ñcāṭip poṉ palicaiyāka ivvā-

⟨14⟩ ṭṭai aippikai muta lāṟāṟu tiṅkaḷi li-

⟨15⟩ rukaḻañceykāṟ ceytu poṉṉun ti-

⟨16⟩ ruviḷakku neyk kācantra kālamu nilaip-

⟨17⟩ poliyūṭṭākat tiruvoṟṟiyūrāṇi [ki] 3 ⟨Page 38⟩

⟨SIIv12p0i0088⟩ No. 88. (A.R. No. 161 of 1912). ON ANOTHER SLAB IN THE SAME PLACE.

This is also dated in the 4th year of Vijaya-Aparājitavarman and it registers a similar agreement made by the sabhā and the amṛita-gaṇa of Ādambākkam to maintain a perpetual lamp in the same temple for the interest on 30 kaḻañju of gold received by them from Śappakkaṉ alias Pātradāni, the mistress of Vayiramēgaṉ alias Vāṇakōvaraiyar, son of Sāmi-Akkaṉ. As Vāṇakōvaraiyar is called the son of Perunaṅgai in the previous inscription, it is possible that the latter and Śāmi-Akkaṉ were identical. From the way in which this lady is introduced in the record, it is surmised that she should have been a mistress of the king (Ep. Rep. for 1913, p. 90.)

The term amṛita-gaṇa is mentioned only in the inscriptions of Aparājita at Tiruvoṟṟiyūr. It represents a committee which was probably connected with the āḷumgaṇattār who were the direct managing members of a village, and distinct from the general members of the village assembly. 1[It was perhaps mainly connected with the management of the offerings and lamps of the god-Ed].

The puḷḷis are marked in this record also (See Plate VI).

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] kovicaiya aparāji-

⟨2⟩ tavarmma ṟki yāṇṭu nālāvatu cāmia-

⟨3⟩ kkaṉ makaṉ vayiramekaṉākiya vāṇa-

⟨4⟩ kovaraiyar bhōgi cappakkaṉākiya

⟨5⟩ pātradāni tiruvoṟṟiyūr mahādē vark ko-

⟨6⟩ ru nandā viḷak kerippataṟku vaitta poṉ

⟨7⟩ ṉūrkkaṟ cemmai muppatiṉkaḻañcu i-

⟨8⟩ ppoṉ koṇṭu kaṭavon tiruvoṟṟi yūr-

⟨9⟩ ppuṟattu ā tampākkattu sabhai yomu-

⟨10⟩ m amṛtaga ṇattomum [|*] ippoṉṉālā-

⟨11⟩ ṇṭuvarai kaḻañciṉvāy muṉṟu mañcāṭip po-

⟨12⟩ ṉ palicaiyāka ivvāṭṭai aippikai muta lā-

⟨13⟩ ṟāṟu tiṅkaḷi lirukaḻañceykāṟ ceytu po-

⟨14⟩ ṉṉun tiruviḷakku neyā rācandra kālam

⟨15⟩ nilaippoliyūṭṭāka tiruvoṟṟiyū rāṇi-

⟨16⟩ kkiḻe koṇṭu ceṉṟu iṭṭuk kuṭuppo mā-

⟨17⟩ ṉo mippoliyūṭṭup (pop) poṉ kaṭaik-

⟨18⟩ [ku]ṭṭa2vantārkku nicati iraṇṭu coṟu kuṭuppo-

⟨19⟩ māṉo mitaṟṟiṟampi luṇṭikaiyum paṭṭi-

⟨20⟩ kaiyuṅkāṭṭāte dharmmāsa nattu nicati e-

⟨21⟩ ṭṭarai kāṇan taṇṭam paṭuvomāṉom i-

⟨22⟩ kkāṇa [muṉpu niṉṟu]m puḷḷikkuttuvi 3

⟨SIIv12p0i0089⟩ No. 89. (A.R. No. 32 of 1912). SATYAVĒḌU, PONNERI TALUK, CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT. ON A STONE IN THE ARDHA-MAṆḌAPA OF THE MĀTAṄGĒŚVARA TEMPLE.

This inscription is dated in the 5th year of Aparājitavarman. It registers a gift of 100 sheep for burning a perpetual lamp in the temple of Mādēva (i. e., Mahādēva) at Tirumataṅgaṉpaḷḷi by Pōṟṟinaṅgai, wife of Kumārandai Kuṟumbarādittan alias Kāḍupaṭṭippēraraiyaṉ mentioned in No. 86 above. The liquid measure Viḍēlviḍugu mentioned in the inscription was probably named after the surname either of Nandivarman III or Nṛipatuṅgavarman. 4 ⟨Page 39⟩

Text.

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*]

⟨2⟩ koaparāyitapaṟmaṟ-

⟨3⟩ ku yāṇṭu añcāvatu ce-

⟨4⟩ [ra]nāṭuṭaiya kumārantai kuṟumparāti-

⟨5⟩ ttanākiya kāṭupaṭṭip peraraiya-

⟨6⟩ ṉ maṇavāṭṭi poṟṟinaṅkaiyeṉ [|*]

⟨7⟩ paiyyūriḷaṅkoṭṭattut tekkū-

⟨8⟩ rnāṭṭut tirumataṅkaṉpaḷḷi mā-

⟨9⟩ tevarkku oru nantāviḷakkuṉuk-

⟨10⟩ ku vaitta āṭu nūṟu ivai cāvāmu-

⟨11⟩ vāpperāṭāka vaitteṉ [|*] iv-

⟨12⟩ vāṭu nūṟuṅkoṇṭu nicata mu-

⟨13⟩ ḻakku ney viṭelviṭukoṭokku mu-

⟨14⟩ ḻakkiṉā laṭṭuvomāṉom tiru-

⟨15⟩ mataṅkaṉpaḷḷi pū[va*]ṉūr ūro-

⟨16⟩ m [|*] itaṟṟiṟampil tiruvā- 1

⟨SIIv12p0i0090⟩ No. 90. (A.R. No. 190 of 1912). TIRUVOṞṞIYŪR, SAIDAPET TALUK, CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT. ON A SLAB BUILT INTO THE FLOOR OF THE MAṆḌAPA IN FRONT OF THE CENTRAL SHRINE IN THE ĀDHIPURĪŚVARA TEMPLE.

On this slab of stone, three records are engraved one in continuation of another in the same hand. The name of the king in the first record is damaged, the second is dated in the 7th year of Kampavarman 2while the third belongs to the 6th year of Aparājita. They appear, therefore, to have been engraved on the slab in the same time; but what necessitated the procedure is not clear. The last record registers an agreement made in the 6th year of Vijaya-Aparājitavikrama-Pōttaraiyar, by the assembly of Maṇali, hamlet of Tiruvoṟṟiyūr, to burn two perpetual lamps before the god Mahādēva at Tiruvoṟṟiyūr, in lieu of the interest on 60 kaḻañju of gold received by them from the community of Māhēśvaras.

The endowed amount was invested with the assembly as fixed deposit bearing interest at the usual rate of 3 mañjāḍi per kaḻañju. The assembly promised also to give two meals daily to the person who came to collect the interest and if they failed in their duty, they agreed to pay a fine of 8(1/2) kāṇam per day to the court of justice.

Text.

⟨1⟩ kovicaiya a parājitavi[kra] mapo-

⟨2⟩ ttaraiyarkku yāṇ ṭāṟāvatu panā heśva rar tiruvoṟṟiyūr [ma]-

⟨3⟩ hādē vark kiraṇṭu nandā viḷak kerippataṟku vaitta poṉ ūrkkaṟ [cem]-

⟨4⟩ mai a ṟupatin kaḻañcu ippoṉ koṇṭu kaṭavon tiruvoṟṟi-

⟨5⟩ yūrppuṟattu maṇali sabhaiyō mippoṉṉā lāṇṭuvarai kaḻañ-

⟨6⟩ ciṉvāy muṉṟumañcāṭippoṉ [palicaiyāka iv]vāṭṭaik kār[t*]-

⟨7⟩ tikai mutalāṟāṟu tiṅkaḷil nāṟkaḻañcaraicceytu poṉ ṉā[ candṛ]-

⟨8⟩ tāramu nilaippoliyūṭṭākat tiruvoṟṟiyūrāṇik kiḻekoṇṭu

⟨9⟩ kūṟiṭṭuk kuṭuppomāṉo mippoṉ kaṭaikkūṭṭa vantārkku nica[ti]

⟨10⟩ iraṇṭu coṟu kuṭuppomāno mitaṟṟirampi luṇṭikaiyum paṭṭi-

⟨11⟩ [kai]yug kāṭṭāte dharmmāsana ttu nicati eṭṭarai kāṇan taṇṭamiṭa

⟨12⟩ [o]ṭṭik kuṭutto miṭṭa taṇṭañceṉṟu niṉṟum puḷḷikuttuvikkap-

⟨13⟩ [pe]ṟātomāṉo[m] maṇali sabhai yom ||—

⟨SIIv12p0i0091⟩ No. 91. (A.R. No. 163 of 1912). ON ANOTHER SLAB IN THE SAME PLACE.

This is a document similar to the above, dated in the 7th year of Vijaya-Aparājitavarman. It registers the agreement made by the sabhā and the amṛita-gaṇa ⟨Page 40⟩ of Ādambākkam to burn a perpetual lamp in the same temple for the interest on 30 kaḻañju of gold received by them from Mādēvi-Aḍigaḷ, queen of Aparājita.

The puḷḷis are marked in this inscription.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] [kovicaiya aparā]-

⟨2⟩ jitavarmma ṟki yāṇ ṭeḻāvatu iva-

⟨3⟩ r teviyār mātevia ṭikaḷ tiru-

⟨4⟩ voṟṟiyūr mahādē varkku oru na-

⟨5⟩ [ndā] viḷak kerippataṟku vaitta

⟨6⟩ [po]ṉ ūrkkaṟ cemmai muppati-

⟨7⟩ [ṉ ka]ḻañcu ippoṉ koṇṭu ka-

⟨8⟩ [ṭavo]m puliyūrkkoṭṭattut tiru-

⟨9⟩ [voṟ]ṟiyūrppuṟat tātampā[kka*]ttu sa-

⟨10⟩ [bhai] yomum amrataga ṇattomum [|*]

⟨11⟩ [i]ppoṉṉā lāṇṭuvarai kaḻañci-

⟨12⟩ [ṉvāy] muṉṟumañcāṭippoṉ pali-

⟨13⟩ [caiyā]ka ivvāṭṭait taittiṅka[ḷ muta]-

⟨14⟩ [lāṟu] tiṅkaḷi lirukaḻañcekāṟ [ce]-

⟨15⟩ [ytu po]ṉṉun tiruviḷakku ney•

⟨16⟩ •• nilaippoliyūṭṭāka [tiru]-

⟨17⟩ voṟṟiyū rāṇikkiḻe koṇṭu [ceṉṟu]

⟨18⟩ [iṭṭu] kuṭuppomāṉo mippo-

⟨19⟩ liyūṭṭup poṉ kaṭaikkūṭṭa vantā-

⟨20⟩ rkku nicati iraṇṭu coṟu kuṭuppo-

⟨21⟩ māṉo mitaṟṟiṟampi luṇṭikaiyu-

⟨22⟩ m paṭṭikaiyug kāṭṭāte dharmmāsa ṉa-

⟨23⟩ ttu nicati nālekāl kāṇan taṇṭa [miṭa]

⟨24⟩ [o]ṭṭik kuṭutto miṭṭa kāṇañ ceṉṟu ni-

⟨25⟩ [ṉṟu] puḷḷikuttuvikkap peṟā-

⟨26⟩ tomāṉo mittaṇṭappaṭṭu mip-

⟨27⟩ poliyūṭṭup poṉ vaḻuvāmai

⟨28⟩ [yaṭṭu]vomāṉo [muṟcolla]ppaṭṭa [āta]-

⟨29⟩ mpākkattu [sabhai yomum amṛ]-

⟨30⟩ [ta]kaṇattomum [||*]

⟨SIIv12p0i0092⟩ No. 92. (A.R. No. 159 of 1912). ON ANOTHER SLAB IN THE SAME PLACE.

This inscription records an endowment of 60 kaḻañju of gold, made in the 8th year of Vijaya-Aparājitavarma-Pōttaraiyar, by Paiytāṅgi Kaṇḍaṉ, chief of Kāṭṭūr in Vaḍakarai Iṉṉambar-nāḍu, a subdivision of Śōḻa-nāḍu, for providing on the day of his natal star Svātī, offerings to the deity and for burning a perpetual lamp in the temple of Mahādēva at Tiruvoṟṟiyūr. The money was deposited with the Karmakkīḻvar of Tiruvoṟṟiyūr and the offerings included rice, ghee, plantains, sugar, vegetables, arecanuts, betel-leaves, tender cocoanuts, pañchagavya, sandal paste and camphor.

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] ānma • kṣa•• [sna]-

⟨2⟩ panamatisitam lēpram śuddha-

⟨3⟩ pam tāmbūlam sannivēdya pra ti [di]-

⟨4⟩ [na]maniśandīpamēkam pradātum kāṭ ṭurī-

⟨5⟩ [ś]ō vinītaḥ svapatimatiharaḥ ṣaṣṭhim

⟨6⟩ suvarṇṇam bhakty[ā] paitāṅki kaṇṭhōmu-

⟨7⟩ •• madādō ṟṟiyūrēśvarāya [||*] ko-

⟨8⟩ vicaiya aparājitavarmma ppottarai-

⟨9⟩ yaṟkku yāṇ ṭeṭṭāvatu coḻanāṭṭu vaṭa-

⟨10⟩ karai iṉṉamparnāṭṭuk kāṭṭu[r] kāṭṭur [ruṭai]-

⟨11⟩ yāṉ paiytāṅki kaṇṭaṉ tiruvoṟṟi-

⟨12⟩ yūr mahādē varkku vaitta poṉ [ūrkka]-

⟨13⟩ ṟcemmai a ṟupatiṉkaḻañcu [ip]-

⟨14⟩ poṉṉuḷ tāṉ piṟanta coti[nā]ḷ

⟨15⟩ tiruvamirtu patteṭṭukkuttaṟ paḻa[va]-

⟨16⟩ [rici] patiṉaṟu nāḻikkum sna paṉattiṟku-

⟨17⟩ [m] tiruvamirtiṟkumāka ney āṟu nāḻi-

⟨18⟩ kkum vāḻaippaḻa meṭṭuñ carkkarai-

⟨19⟩ [p] palamug kaṟiyamirtiṟkuk kāyt ti[ru]-

⟨20⟩ maṭaikkāyamir teṇpatilaiyum pata- ⟨Page 41⟩

⟨21⟩ tukkāyu miḷanir muppatum pañcagavya-

⟨22⟩ ṅkaḷukku veṇṭuvaṉavuñ cantaṉamu n tū-

⟨23⟩ pamug karppūramumāka ivvaṉaittu-

⟨24⟩ kkumāka vaitta poṉ muppatiṉ kaḻa-

⟨25⟩ ñcu moru nandā viḷak kerippataṟku vai-

⟨26⟩ tta poṉ muppatiṉ kaḻañcumāka vai-

⟨27⟩ tta poṉ a ṟupatiṉ kaḻañcug ko-

⟨28⟩ ṇṭu kaṭavon tiruvoṟṟiyūrk karmak kiḻava-

⟨29⟩ [rāyiṉa] ūro mippoṉṉā lāṇṭuvarai kaḻa-

⟨30⟩ ñciṉvāy muṉṟu mañcāṭippoṉ pali-

⟨31⟩ caiyāka ivvāṭṭaic cittiraittiṅkaḷ mu 1

⟨SIIv12p0i0093⟩ No. 93. (A.R. No. 180 of 1912). ON ANOTHER SLAB IN THE SAME PLACE.

This is a verse inscription of Aparājitavikramavarman dated in his 12th year. It refers to a gift of land, after purchase from a resident of Igaṇaimūdūr, for offerings, perfume, incense and for a perpetual lamp to the god Chōḷamālyīśvara at Oṟṟimudūr (i.e.,) Tiruvoṟṟiyūr. The name Oṟṟiyūr with its Sanskrit equivalent Ādhipurī meaning a ‘mortgaged city’ is explained by a local tradition of the place.

Text.

⟨1⟩ •••••• peṟṟu viḷaṅka••

⟨2⟩ •••• ṭukaṭaṟ paṭappai oṟṟimutū rukan-

⟨3⟩ ••• [n]eṟṟi nāṭṭattu nirmmala ṉ koyiṟkuṭati-

⟨4⟩ cai• nta vaṭaticai eṭuttu maḷapperuñciṟappi-

⟨5⟩ ṟ ṟaṉ p[e]yar nīṟiya coḷam[āl]yīśva rakarattu maṉṉi-

⟨6⟩ yaruṇi••[ śi vapperumā] ṉaṭikaṭ kaṇimika arcci ppa-

⟨7⟩ varkku nicca mukkālu ne[y] viravikkāṭṭun tiruvamir-

⟨8⟩ tiṟkug kantattiṟkun tūpattiṟku nantā nalviḷa-

⟨9⟩ kkoṉ ṟeri[vataṟku]• kku malkum vaḻukkāteṉ-

⟨10⟩ ṟu miṭuvor ta••• volakkamacaivil kirt-

⟨11⟩ ti aparājita[ vikra ma parumaṟkki] yāṇṭu paṉṉira-

⟨12⟩ ṇṭā[ṇ]ṭiṉāl•• vait tikaṇai[mū]tū rika-

⟨13⟩ ṇai[yk]kiḻavo reṉṉug kuṭiyiṭai ni[ṟai]puṉala-

⟨14⟩ [mar]ku• [tug]kaṉāṟum niṉaitta nelvarum paṉi-

⟨15⟩ ccaippulamum eṉṟiru perettamu mivaṟṟukk[e]-

⟨16⟩ riyum poruḷ kaikkuṭuttup pu[ḷi]yaṟiya a ṟṟami-

⟨17⟩ ṉṟi viṟṟukkoṇṭu kaṉmicai eḻuti vaittaṉaṉ ma-

⟨18⟩ •• ruvaḻi mānilattiṉite ||— 2

⟨SIIv12p0i0094⟩ No. 94. (A.R. No. 433 of 1905). TIRUTTAṆI, TIRUTTANI DIVISION, CHITTOOR DISTRICT. ON THE SOUTH WALL OF THE CENTRAL SHRINE IN THE VĪRAṬṬĀNĒŚVARA TEMPLE.

This inscription in Tamil verse composed by a king, whose name is, however, not revealed, states that the temple at Tiruttaṇiyal was constructed of black granite by Nambi Appi. This person figures as donor in the next inscription belonging to Aparājita. The composer of the present record may, therefore, be taken as Aparājita himself. The structure of the Vīraṭṭānēśvara temple where the present inscription is found, therefore, affords a definite landmark for studying the evolution of Pallava temple architecture. ⟨Page 42⟩

Text.

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] tiruntu tiruttaṇiyil ceñcaṭaiīcarkku karuṅkallāl kaṟṟaḷiyā niṟka1virumpi [y*](o) naṟka-

⟨2⟩ laikaḷellām naviṉṟa [cī]r nampi appi poṟpamaiya ceytāṉ purintu |||—i veṇpā peru-

⟨3⟩ māṉaṭikaḷ tām pāṭi aruḷuttu [||*]

⟨SIIv12p0i0095⟩ No. 95. (A.R. No. 435 of 1905). ON THE SAME WALL.

This inscription refers to a remission of taxes made by the assembly of Tiruttaṇiyal in the 18th year of Vijaya-Aparājitavikramavarman, on 1000 kuḻi of land situated to the north of the temple, purchased by Nambi Appi from the cultivators of the village and given over to the dharmigaḷ of the village for providing offerings to and burning two twilight lamps in the temple of Tiruvīraṭṭānattudēva in the same village. The donor is evidently identical with the builder of the temple mentioned in the above inscription.

The dharmigaḷ were perhaps a body that managed the charitable endowments and trust property in the village.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] kovicaiya aparājitavikramavarmma kku [yāṇṭu]

⟨2⟩ patiṉeṭṭāvatu tiruttaṇiyal tiruviraṭṭāṉattudē-

⟨3⟩ varkku nampi appiy ivvūrk kuṭimakkaḷiṭai vilaikku-

⟨4⟩ k koṇṭa bhū mi śrīkoyiliṉ vaṭapālaic ceṟuvu āyiraṅkuḻiyā-

⟨5⟩ lum vanta iṟaimutal viṟṟu ācantra kālattukkum śāśva ta[māka]

⟨6⟩ tiruttaṇiyal sabhai yārkku iṟaiiliyāvataṟkup poṉ ku[ṭu]-

⟨7⟩ [t]tuk koṇṭamaiyil sabhai yomum ivvāyirag kuḻiyālu-

⟨8⟩ m epperppaṭṭa iṟaiyug kāṭṭātomāṉom [|*] ibhū [mi]-

⟨9⟩ dē var bhōga mākki itaṉukku nicati nāṉāḻi arici iraṇ-

⟨10⟩ ṭu tiruvamirtum iraṇṭuc cantiviḷakkiṉukkum uḻa[k*]ke-

⟨11⟩ ṇṇaiyum ivvūr dharmmi kaḷom sabhai yār kaṭaikkāṭciyā-

⟨12⟩ ka ipparicu ceytu koṇṭu[ṭaiyo]māṉom [|*] itu cey-

⟨13⟩ yomāyil aṉṟāḷkovukku nicati kāṟ poṉ taṇṭap-

⟨14⟩ paṭuvomāṉom [|*] ittaṇṭam paṭṭum ipparice ceyv[o]mā-

⟨15⟩ nom [|*] sabhai yomum ippaṭi ārāyomāyil kaṅkaiiṭai ku-

⟨16⟩ mariyiṭai ceytār ceyta pāvag koḷvomāṉom [|*] allatu i-

⟨17⟩ ddharmma ttiṉai ira[kṣi]kkiṉṟa tiruttaṇiyal sabhai yār śrīpā tam eṉ

⟨18⟩ talai melanavākavu[m] [||*]

⟨SIIv12p0i0096⟩ No. 96. (A.R. No. 396 of 1923). TIRUPPULIVANAM, CONJEEVERAM TALUK, CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT. ON THE WEST WALL OF THE KITCHEN IN THE VYĀGHRAPURĪŚVARA TEMPLE.

This record of Tribhuvanachakravartin Tribhuvanavīradēva (i. e. Kulōttuṅgachōḷa III), dated in his 37th year (corresponding to A.D. 1215, June 7, Sunday), is included here because it notices an inscription of Aparājita engraved on the walls of the temple of Tiruppulivaṉam-Uḍaiyār. A copy of this record is also found at Uttaramallūr (A.R. No. 67 of 1898). The assembly of Uttaramēlūr alias Rājēndraśōḻa-chaturvēdimaṅgalam, an independent village in Kāliyūr-kōṭṭam, a subdivision of Jayaṅgoṇḍaśōḻa-maṇḍalam, ⟨Page 43⟩ agreed to maintain before the god Tiruppulivaṉamuḍaiya-Nāyaṉār, all the perpetual lamps for which inscriptions were found in the temple. One such record belongs to Aparājitavikramavarman dated in the 14th year and it gives Rājamāttāṇḍaṉ as the surname of Aparājita. This epigraph states that on the day of solar eclipse, the king made a gift of 100 kaḻañju of gold for burning four lamps in the temple. The solar eclipse cited in the record is, however, not helpful in fixing the initial date of Aparājita.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] tiruvā[ykkeḻvimuṉ]ṉākat tiribhu vaṉaccakra vattikaḷ maturaiyum īḻamug karuvūrum pāṇṭiyaṉmuṭittalaiyug koṇṭaruḷi virar abhiṣē kamum vicaiyar abhiṣē kamum paṇṇiyaruḷiṉa tiribhu vaṉaviratevaṟku yāṇṭu 37- āvatu midhu ṉanāyaṟṟu pūrvapa kṣattu

⟨2⟩ navamiyum nāyaṟṟu[kkiḻam]aiyum peṟṟa attattu nāḷ jayaṅkoṇṭacoḻamaṇṭalattuk kāliyūṟ koṭṭattu taṉiyūr uttaramelūrāṉa irājentra coḻaccaturvēdi maṅkalattu mahāsabhai yom eḻuttu [|*] nammur uṭaiyār tiruppulivaṉamuṭaiyanāyaṉārkku tirununtāvi-

⟨3⟩ ḷakku erippatāka eṅkaḷ pūrva kaḷ pala[r*]pakkalum poṉ koṇṭu poliyūṭṭukku erikkakkaṭavar kaḷāka muṉṉāḷil kalveṭṭiṉa tirununtāviḷakkukaḷil irājamāttāṇṭaṉākiya aparājita vikramavanma rkku yāṇṭu 14- āvatu nāḷil sūriyagra haṇattukku rāja-

⟨4⟩ māttāṇḍa ṉākiya aparājita vikramapanma r pakkal kaikkoṇṭa [pura]niṟai cempoṉ [100] kaḻañ cukku erikkakkaṭavatāka tiruppulivaṉamuṭaiyār koyililum naṭuviṟ koyililug kalveṭṭiṉa nilaiviḷakku nālum 1* * * * * * * * * * KAMPAVARMAN.

⟨SIIv12p0i0097⟩ No. 97. (A.R. No. 402 of 1923). POṞPANDAL, CONJEEVERAM TALUK, CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT. ON THE DURGĪ-STONE FIXED IN THE VILLAGE.

This inscription, dated in the 2nd year of the reign of Kampavarman, registers the sale, to a certain Valiyāṇai, of the right of collecting one kāḍi of paddy per crop, by the assembly of Poṟpondai in Kuṟumpuṟai-nāḍu, a subdivision of Kaḷattūrkōṭṭam for the upkeep of the tank Malaiveḷḷapperuṅkuḷam. Kuṟumpuṟai-nāḍu must have comprised the territory round about Poṟpandal near Chingleput town. The god Kuṟumpiṟai-Nayiṉār is also referred to in an inscription 2from Śālavākkam, a village close to Poṟpandal.

The special imprecation attached to the inscription viz. ‘that the defaulter will incur the sin of having destroyed Kachchippēḍu’, indicates the great reverence with which the town of Kāñchīpuram was regarded at this period.

Text.

First face.

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*]

⟨2⟩ kampa-

⟨3⟩ varmma (ma)ṟku

⟨4⟩ yāṇṭu ira-

⟨5⟩ ṇṭāvatu ka-

⟨6⟩ ḷattūrkko-

⟨7⟩ ṭṭattuk kuṟumpu-

⟨8⟩ ṟaināṭṭup poṟ-

⟨9⟩ pontai ūrom [|*] ⟨Page 44⟩

Second face.

⟨10⟩ emmur [va]-

⟨11⟩ liyāṇaikku

⟨12⟩ emmur malai-

⟨13⟩ veḷḷappe-

⟨14⟩ ruṅkuḷattukku

⟨15⟩ pūttoṟum pa-

⟨16⟩ ṭṭiyā loru kāṭi

⟨17⟩ nel erikku dharmma mā-

⟨18⟩ ka viṟṟuk kuṭutto

⟨19⟩ mitaṟṟiṟampiṉo-

⟨20⟩ m dharmmāsa ṉatti-

Third face.

⟨21⟩ ley

⟨22⟩ veṟu i-

⟨23⟩ rupattu-

⟨24⟩ nālu ta-

⟨25⟩ ṇṭa[p*]paṭu-

⟨26⟩ vomāṉo-

⟨27⟩ m[|*] kaccip-

⟨28⟩ peṭaḻitt[ā]-

⟨29⟩ ṉ pāvampaṭu-

⟨30⟩ vo[m]āṉom

⟨31⟩ kuṭātom [|*] itta-

⟨32⟩ ṉma mirakṣittā raṭi

⟨33⟩ eṉṟa(l)lai mela-

⟨34⟩ ṉa [||*]

⟨SIIv12p0i0098⟩ No. 98. (A.R. No. 398 of 1905). KĀVĒRIPPĀKKAM, ARKONAM TALUK, NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT. ON A STONE BUILT INTO THE CEILING OF THE VARADARĀJA-PERUMĀḶ TEMPLE.

This is a fragmentary record of Vijaya-Kampavarman dated in the 6th year. It seems to register a gift of gold by a certain Kumāra-Kra[mavittaṉ].

Text.

⟨1⟩ śrī kovicaiya kampavarmma ṟki yāṇ ṭāṟāvatu paṭuvūrkkoṭṭattuk k[ā]va•••

⟨2⟩ [pa]tiṉ ka[ḻa*]ñcu po[ṉ*]ṉukkum emmur śrīmalaiyañ [ci]kumāra kra mavittaṉ••

⟨3⟩ ••••• ṉuṭa[ṉ] irunūṟṟunāṟpattoṉpa[tā]ṉāḷ mutalāka emmur ūrāṭci 1

⟨SIIv12p0i0099⟩ No. 99. (A.R. No. 189 of 1912). TIRUVOṞṞIYŪR, SAIDAPET TALUK, CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT. ON A SLAB BUILT INTO THE FLOOR OF THE MAṆḌAPA IN FRONT OF THE CENTRAL SHRINE IN THE ĀDHIPURĪŚVARA TEMPLE.

It is stated in this record of Kampavarman, dated in the 7th year, that the assembly of Maṇali, hamlet of Tiruvoṟṟiyūr, agreed to burn a lamp in the temple of Mahādēva at Tiruvoṟṟiyūr for the interest on 15 kaḻañju of gold received by them from Vēmbaṉ Kuṇuṅgaṉammaṉ of Iṛaiyāṉchēri in Mayilārppu.

This inscription must be a copy since, as stated already (No. 90 above), it is engraved in continuation of an inscription where the king's name is lost and followed by a record of Aparājita the first line of which is engraved in continuation of the present inscription.

Text.

⟨1⟩ kampavarmma ṟku yāṇ-

⟨2⟩ ṭeḻāvatu tiruvoṟṟiyūrppuṟattu maṇali sabhai yog kaiy-

⟨3⟩ [e]ḻuttu [|*] mayilā[r*]ppi liṟaiyāṉceri vempaṉ kuṇuṅkaṉammaṉ

⟨4⟩ tiruvoṟṟiyūr mahādē varkkut tiruviḷakkiṉukku vaitta po[ṉ*] ṉūrkaṟ[ce]-

⟨5⟩ [mm]ai patiṉaig kaḻañcu poṉ koṇṭu kaṭavo mippoṉṉā[l kaḻañ]- ⟨Page 45⟩

⟨6⟩ [ciṉvāy] muṉṟu mañcāṭip palicaiyāka [yi]vvāṭṭai [ai]ppaci mutalā ṟāṟu tig-

⟨7⟩ kaḷiṟ kaḻañce a raikkāṟ poṉ ṟiruvoṟṟiyū rāṇikiḻe koṇṭu

⟨8⟩ kuṭuppomāṉo mippoṉ kaṭaikkūṭṭava[ntāṟku nicati] iraṇṭu

⟨9⟩ [co]ṟu kuṭuppomāṉo mitaṟṟiṟampi[l*] dharmmāsa nattu nicati eṭṭarai kāṇa[m]

⟨10⟩ taṇṭappaṭuvomāṉom [||*]

⟨SIIv12p0i0100⟩ No. 100. (A.R. No. 188 of 1912). ON ANOTHER SLAB IN THE SAME PLACE.

This is a highly damaged record of Vijaya-Kampavikramavarman dated in his 9th year. It registers a gift of 30 kaḻañju of gold by Amarnidi alias Pallavadiyaraiyar of Kañjanūr in Indaḷūr-nāḍu which was a subdivision of Śōḻa-nāḍu and another gift of a similar amount by a person whose name is lost, for burning two perpetual lamps in the temple at Tiruvoṟṟiyūr. It may be noted that Kañjanūr which may be identified with the village of the same name in the Kumbakonam taluk of the Tanjore district is not herein called Siṁhavishṇu-chaturvēdimaṅgalam, as is done in a record from Tiruviḍaimarudūr. 1

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⟨1⟩ [svasti śrī] [||*] kovic[aiya] ka[m]pa[vikkira]mapa-

⟨2⟩ ṟmaṟku yāṇ [ṭo]ṉpatāvatu coḻanāṭ ṭintaḷūr-

⟨3⟩ nāṭṭuk ka[ñ]ca[nūr]k kañcanūrā ṉamarnitiāi-

⟨4⟩ ṉa pallavatiyaraiyar tiruvoṟṟiyūr mahādē-

⟨5⟩ varkku orunantāviḷak kerippataṟku vai[cca poṉ ū]-

⟨6⟩ rkaṟcemmai muppatiṉ kaḻañcum puliyūrkko[ṭṭa]-

⟨7⟩ ttuk ka[l]māynāṭṭu pu[ḷimā]ṟṟu•• [muṭaiyāṉ]••

⟨8⟩ tiruvoṟṟiyūr mahādē vaṟkku oru nantāviḷak kerippa-

⟨9⟩ taṟku vaicca poṉ ūrkkaṟcemmai muppatiṉ ka[ḻañcu]-

⟨10⟩ māka iv a ṟupatiṉ kaḻañcu poṉṉug [koṇ]ṭu•

⟨11⟩ [m] puḻaṟkoṭṭattu nā[yaṟu]nāṭṭup [pūtūrilum]••

⟨12⟩ m iv a ṟupatiṉ kaḻañcu poṉṉālum kaḻañci-

⟨13⟩ ṉvāy muṉṟu mañcāṭip poṉ palicaiāka ā-

⟨14⟩ ṇṭuvarai oṉpatiṉ kaḻañcu poṉṉāka [ivvā]-

⟨15⟩ ṭṭai tirumutalāka a ṟāṟu tiṅkaṇāḷāl nāṟka-

⟨16⟩ ḻañcarai ponṉum tiruvoṟṟiyū rāṇik kiḻai

⟨17⟩ koṇṭu ceṉṟu tiruviḷakku neykku iṭak kuṭuppo-

⟨18⟩ māṉom••• ttanmam•••

⟨19⟩ damaged

⟨20⟩ [ṭaraikaḷom] ippaṭi oṭṭikkuṭuttom muṉpu ni-

⟨21⟩ ṉṟum puḷḷikkuttuvikkap peṟā[tomāṉom] it-

⟨22⟩ taṇṭappaṭṭum ivvolai meṟppaṭṭa palicai va-

⟨23⟩ ḻuvāme celuttuvomāṉom ippoṉ kaṭaik-

⟨24⟩ kūṭṭavantāṟku nicati nālu coṟu kuṭuppomāṉom

⟨25⟩ ippoṉ•• āṭṭai nāḷāl [policai]••

⟨26⟩ damaged

⟨27⟩ •••••• kuṭuppo-

⟨28⟩ māṉom••••• ⟨Page 46⟩

⟨SIIv12p0i0101⟩ No. 101. (A.R. No. 171 of 1921). MĒLPAṬṬI, GUDIYATTAM TALUK, NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT. ON A HERO-STONE SET UP IN A FIELD TO THE NORTH OF THE RAILWAY STATION.

This record dated in the 10th year of Vijaya-Kampavikramavarman states that, when the army of Pirudi-Gaṅgaraiyar was stationed at Kāvaṉṉūr in Miyāṟu-nāḍu, a subdivision of Paḍuvūr-kōṭṭam, the kāvidi ‘who took Perunagar’ and who was also a soldier of Vāṇaraiyar opposed it and fell in the encounter.

Published in Epigraphia Indica Vol. XXIII, p. 147.

⟨SIIv12p0i0102⟩ No. 102. (A.R. No. 116 of 1923). KĪḺPUTTŪR, CONJEEVERAM TALUK, CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT. ON A STONE SET UP IN THE MIDDLE OF THE VILLAGE.

This inscription, dated in the 11th year of Vijaya-Kampavarman, registers a sale of the ērikkāḍi-right by the assembly of Kīḻppūdūr in Kāliyūr-kōṭṭam to Mādēvaṉār, son of Perumbāṇaṉ Śakkaḍi-Araiyar in return for the gold received from him. One kāḍi of paddy was ordered to be levied as ērikkāḍi (tank duty) on each paṭṭi of cultivated land, including those given to physicians as vaidya-bhōga.

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] kovicaiya ka-

⟨2⟩ mpa[va*]rmma rkku yāṇṭu patiṉo-

⟨3⟩ ṉṟāvatu kāliyūrkoṭṭattuk ki-

⟨4⟩ ḻppūtūr ūrom [|*] perumpāṇan ca-

⟨5⟩ kkaṭi araiyar makaṉār [m]ātevaṉārkku

⟨6⟩ oṭṭi viṟṟukkuṭutta paricāvatu [|*] e[m]-

⟨7⟩ mur varampaṟutta viḷainilamā yi-

⟨8⟩ ṟ[ai]vayal nilamum aṭainilamug ka-

⟨9⟩ [ṟ]ainilamum ettappulamum teva-

⟨10⟩ bhōga mum paḷḷiccantamum vai-

⟨11⟩ jyabhōga mum pāppaṉpaṭṭiyu[m]

⟨12⟩ uḷḷiṭṭu epperppaṭṭa nilamum viḷain-

⟨13⟩ ta nilattāl(p) paṭṭiyāl oru kāṭi nel

⟨14⟩ erikkāṭi āka kovug kuṭiyu[m] potu ve[y]

⟨15⟩ viḷai[n]ta nilattāl erik kaṭṭuvatā[ka]

⟨16⟩ uvver1niṟkavum oṭṭi mātevaṉār pa-

⟨17⟩ kkal poṉ koṇṭu viṟṟu[k*] kuṭut-

⟨18⟩ tom ipparicu aṭṭātu tiṟampiṉo-

⟨19⟩ m kuṭi(y)maiyu veṟu

⟨20⟩ [dharmm]āsa nattu nicati i-

⟨21⟩ rupattunālum ūr tiṟappil

⟨22⟩ nāṟppatteṭṭukkāṇam

⟨23⟩ taṇṭappaṭuvatākavum ikkāṇa-

⟨24⟩ m ceṉṟu niṉṟup puḷḷikutta

⟨25⟩ piṟātatākavum ittaṇṭappaṭṭum

⟨26⟩ meṟcoṉṉa paricey ceyvatākavu-

⟨27⟩ m eṇṇāḻikkāl[ā*]l(ā) aṭṭuvatāka-

⟨28⟩ vum aṉṟāḷkovey irakṣi[p*]patākavu-

⟨29⟩ m oṭṭi viṟṟukkuṭuttom mēṟcol-

⟨30⟩ la[p*]paṭṭa kiḻpputūr ūrom [|*] ū[rār] colla

⟨31⟩ eḻutiṉeṉ ikkiḻpu(t)tūrk kūṭṭat-

⟨32⟩ tāṉ ṛṣikēśavabha ṭṭaṉeṉ [|]

⟨33⟩ iddharmmam rakṣi [p*]pāṉ aṭi

⟨34⟩ eṉ muṭi melaṉa [||*]

⟨SIIv12p0i0103⟩ No. 103. (A.R. No. 174 of 1912). TIRUVOṞṞIYŪR, SAIDAPET TALUK, CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT. ON A SLAB BUILT INTO THE FLOOR OF THE VERANDAH ROUND THE CENTRAL SHRINE IN THE ĀDHIPURĪŚVARA TEMPLE.

The date of this record of Vijaya-Kampavarman is not clear. It might be 11, 13 or 16. The inscription records an agreement made by the assembly (ūr) of Vaikkāṭṭūr to provide offerings to the god Mahādēva at Tiruvoṟṟiyūr, on the day of saṅkrānti, for the interest on 27 kaḻañju of gold received by them from Pūdi Aṟindigai, wife of ⟨Page 47⟩ Viḍēlviḍugu [Iḷaṅkōvē]ḷār of Koḍumbāḷūr 1in Kō-nāḍu. The chiefs of Koḍumbāḷūr (in the Pudukkottai state) figure largely in inscriptions as subordinates of the Chōḷas, but their connection with the Pallavas is not so well known. A chief of this family is also mentioned in a mutilated record from Kīḻūr, 2dated in the 11th year of Vijaya-Nandivikramavarman, where the donor is stated to be the wife of Śāttaṉ Maṟavaṉ and the daughter of Vikrama-Pūdi who is probably identical with Viḍēlviḍugu Iḷaṅkō-Adiaraiyaṉ mentioned in the same record.

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⟨1⟩ [svasti] śrī [||*] [kovic]ai[ya] ka[mpava]rmma ṟku yāṇṭu pa-

⟨2⟩ ••• [ṟā]vatu puḻaṟkoṭṭattup puḻaṉāṭṭut tiruv[o]-

⟨3⟩ ••• puṟattu vaikkāṭṭurog kaiyyeḻuttu [|*] [muka]-

⟨4⟩ ••• r makaḷ konāṭṭuk koṭumpāḷūr viṭelviṭuku i-

⟨5⟩ ••• [ḷār]tevi pūtia ṟintikai tiruvoṟṟiyūr mahādē-

⟨6⟩ ••• caṅkirāntitoṟum patteṭṭākak kuttal paḻa-

⟨7⟩ ••• [ḷum]māvukku a ñpatiṉāḻiyum a ñpatu vāḻai-

⟨8⟩ ••• mpatiṉpalac carkkaraiyum a ṭaikkāyami-

⟨9⟩ ••• [kku ve]ṟṟilaiyug kāyu mittaṉaikkumāka vai-

⟨10⟩ •• ūrkkaṟ cempoṉ irupatteḻu kaḻañcu iv-

⟨11⟩ •• tteḻu kaḻañcug koṇṭu kaṭavom vaiyk[ka]-

⟨12⟩ •• [ro mi]ppoṉṉukkuk kaḻañciṉvāy muṉṟu

⟨13⟩ •• cāṭippoṉ palicaiyā lāṇṭuvarai nāṟ-

⟨14⟩ •• ñce yorumañcāṭip poṉṉāka ivvāṭṭaiv-

⟨15⟩ • yyācit tiṅkaḷ mutalāka ā ṟāṟu tiṅka-

⟨16⟩ ḷil irukaḻañcey(yā)yum māppoṉ-3

⟨17⟩ [ṉu]g koṇṭu ceṉṟu tiruvoṟṟiyū rāṇikkiḻe-

⟨18⟩ •• ṭṭuk kuṭuppomāṉo miṭṭuk kuṭomāyi lip-

⟨19⟩ • ṉṉukkut talaiccemāṭu comatevaṉ pira-

⟨20⟩ •• tāyap pāṭṭanel nāṟpatiṉ kāṭiyu muṭi cūṭṭup-

⟨21⟩ • ṭṭa nel lirupatiṉ kāṭiyu muḻapaṭṭip pāṭṭa ne-

⟨22⟩ [l] lirupatiṉ kāṭiyum vaikkāṭu kiḻā[r*]e(r) [ī] 4y et-

⟨23⟩ •• pulattiṉ nel nūṟṟirupatiṉ kāṭiyu mā-

⟨24⟩ •• nūṟṟuk kāṭi nellilum ā ṟāṟutig-

⟨25⟩ •••• cey a yntu mā-

⟨26⟩ •••••• [paṭṭa] ā kattā 5

⟨SIIv12p0i0104⟩ No. 104. (A.R. No. 391 of 1905). KĀVĒRIPPĀKKAM, ARKONAM TALUK, NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT. ON A STONE BUILT INTO THE FLOOR CLOSE TO THE SOUTH WALL OF THE CENTRAL SHRINE IN THE VARADARĀJA-PERUMĀḶ TEMPLE.

The subjoined record is dated in the 17th year of Vijaya-Kampavarman and in registers a gift of 736 kaḻañju of gold to the assembly of Chiṟṟambalam in Kāvadippākkam alias Avaṉinārāyaṇa-chaturvēdimaṅgalam for feeding a person daily, by a lady called Nampirāṭṭi, the elder sister of one Tiruvānaṅgamudi. ⟨Page 48⟩

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] kovicaiya kampa[va]rmma [k]ku yāṇṭu patiṉeḻ[āvatu paṭuvūrko]ṭṭattuk kāvatip pāk-

⟨2⟩ kamākiya avaṉinārāyaṇaccaturvvē timaṅkalattuc ciṟṟampalattup perumakkaḷ kaṭai-

⟨3⟩ kāṭciyākat tiru[vā]naṅkamuti tamakkai nampirāṭṭi viruttū[ṇar]kku vaitta poṉ 1 eḻu[nū*]ttu mup-

⟨4⟩ pat[taṟu]kaḻañcu ippoṉṉāl vanta viruttiyāl nicati oru viruttūṇa ruṇpatāka vaittāḷ [|*] itu

⟨5⟩ [ā]candra kālamum muṭṭāmai ūṭṭuvippatāka [yi]pperumakka[ḷ ka]ṭaikkāṇpārāṉār ittarmma muṭṭil keṅkaiyi-

⟨6⟩ ṭaik kumariyiṭaic ceytār ceyta pāvam pa[ṭu]vārāṉār iddharmma [m*] rakṣi [t*]tār kāl eṉ muṭi melaṉa [||*]

⟨SIIv12p0i0105⟩ No. 105. (A.R. No. 372 of 1911). TIRUVOṞṞIYŪR, SAIDAPET TALUK, CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT. ON A SLAB BUILT INTO THE FLOOR AT THE ENTRANCE INTO THE SECOND PRĀKĀRA OF THE ĀDHIPURĪSVARA TEMPLE.

The construction of a temple of Nirañjanēśvarattu-Mahādēva at Tiruvoṟṟiyūr by a certain Nirañjanaguravar of the place and the gift of 20,000 kuḻi of land by purchase from the assembly of Maṇali for its upkeep, are recorded in this inscription of Vijaya-Kampavarman dated in the 19th year. The document was drawn up by Rudrappōttar Kumāra-Kāḷan, the madhyastha of the village. The communities Mandirattār and Kombaṟuttār are mentioned in ll. 29-30.

The inscription is stated to have been engraved by Tiruvoṟṟiyūr-Āchāryaṉ alias Paramēśvaran, son of Śāmuṇḍāchārya.

The puḷḷis are marked in the inscription.

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] kovicaiya kampavanma ṟki yāṇṭu pattoṉpatāvatu tiruvoṟṟiyūrppuṟat-

⟨2⟩ tu maṇali sabhai yom nilavilaiyāvaṇa [|*] memmur yāṅkaḷ viṟkiṉṟa nilattiṟkuk

⟨3⟩ kiḻp[ā] 2ṟkellai poruḷāpperiuṭaiya toṇayaṉār ceṟuviṉ meṟku miṉṉu-

⟨4⟩ n takaṇikkiyārpaṭṭi naṭuvinpirampiṉ meṟkun teṉpāṟkellai pocarkaḷavvai ce-

⟨5⟩ ṟuvi[ṟ]ku mappaṉār kuṇṭilukku vaṭakku miṉṉum māmpākkiḻāṉ kuṇṭiliṉ vaṭakku mi-

⟨6⟩ ṉṉum puḻalūr pocar pūmikku mivarkaḷ purikkiṇaṟṟu vaṭakaraiiṉ vaṭakku mikki-

⟨7⟩ ṇaṟṟu melaikkaraiyiṉ meṟku miṉṉu mikkiṇaṟṟiṉ karaiiṉ ṟeṟku miṉṉug ki-

⟨8⟩ ḻpāṟkellai pāṟkuḷattār ka[ṇ*]ṇāṟṟukkāliṉ meṟku miṉṉu(m)n taccaṉār turaviṉ

⟨9⟩ melaikkaraikkup puḻutipāṭu nāṟko ṉikki itaṉ meṟku mikekā 3ttam teṟku nokkic-

⟨10⟩ ceṉṟu tirumuṇṭakkiḻavar tiyampakapaṭṭaṉ ṟuraviṉ vaṭakaraikeka 3ttat taḷavuñceṉṟi-

⟨11⟩ tiṉ meṟku miṉṉu mitturaviṉ vaṭakaraip puḻutipāṭu mu[k]ko ṉikki itaṉ vaṭakkug kiḻ-

⟨12⟩ pāṟkellai itturaviṉ melaikkaraiyiṉ meṟku miṉṉu mikk[o]ttame teṟku no-

⟨13⟩ kkik kurukkattikkālaḷavuñ ceṉṟitaṉ meṟkun teṉpāṟkellai kurukkatti[pa]-

⟨14⟩ [ṭṭaṉ] vaṭavarampu karaipāṭāka [a]raikko ṉikki itaṉ vaṭakku melpāṟkellai cerupaḷḷi-

⟨15⟩ yārkkug kuṭiūr porurkkum potuvāyiṉa [muttai]toṭṭattuc ceṟuviṉ kiḻakku mi-

⟨16⟩ ṉṉuñ ceruppaḷḷiyār toṭṭattiṉ kiḻakku miṉṉu mittoṭṭattiṉ vaṭakku

⟨17⟩ melpāṟkellai teṅkeri iṉ(n)nilattiṟke nāletta meṭuppatāka ni••

⟨18⟩ ṭukālum mukavāyu muḷḷiṭ ṭitaṉ kiḻakkum vaṭapāṟkellai ceruppaḷḷi•••

⟨19⟩ ccaṭaṅkavi toṭṭattiṉ ṟeṟku miṉṉu melpāṟkellai ittoṭṭattu•••

⟨20⟩ ccaṉār toṭṭattiṟkuk kiḻakkun teṉpāṟkellai ittoṭṭattiṉ vaṭakku•••

⟨21⟩ ṅkārampicceṭṭārkaḷ kālkuttittoṭṭattiṉ vaṭakku melpāṟkel••• ⟨Page 49⟩

⟨22⟩ ppaḷḷi kumarappaṉār paṉaṅkāṭṭut toṭṭattu melaiyellai niṉṟu••

⟨23⟩ ku nokkip paṉṉirucāṇ kolāl paṉṉirukolarai nikki ataṉ kiḻakku miṉṉu-

⟨24⟩ g kommālaiyārkaḷ māṭaviti maṉaiyiṉ kiḻakkum vaṭapāṟkellai caṅkaṉvāyiṉi-

⟨25⟩ nṟum ponta kāliṉ ṟeṟku melpāṟkellai ikkāli ṉiṉṟum vaṭakku nokkic ca-

⟨26⟩ ttirapperuvaḻikkepoṉa kāliṉ kiḻakkum vaṭapāṟkellai cattirapperuvaḻiiṉ ṟe-

⟨27⟩ ṟku miṉṉug kārampicceṭṭārkaṭku neṭuveṭpūrārkaṭkum potuvāyiṉa viḷākattiṉ

⟨28⟩ ṟeṟku miṉṉu mivviḷākattiṉ kottame kiḻakku nokkippoṉa pug(k)kaḷukku potu-

⟨29⟩ ṅkiṉukkun teṟku miṉṉu mantirattār pūmiiṉ ṟeṟku miṉṉug kompaṟuttā-

⟨30⟩ r pūmiyiṉ ṟeṟku mipperunāṉkellai uḷḷumakappaṭṭa pūmi uṇṇilamoḻivi-

⟨31⟩ ṉṟi yibhū mikke nāletta meṭuppatāka meṟcollappaṭṭa teṅkeriyi ṉirumukavā-

⟨32⟩ yu muḷḷiṭṭu maṟṟu mitaṟkuriya nirun niroṭukālum peruvatākap paṉṉiru(c)cāṇ-

⟨33⟩ kolāṟ patineḻāiraṅkuḻiu miṉṉug kiḻpāṟkellai ibhū miyiṉ melaruke

⟨34⟩ cattirapperuvaḻikke poṉa [kā]liṉ meṟkuñ caṅkaṉ vāyiṉiṉṟum p[on]-

⟨35⟩ ta kāliṉ vaṭakku maṅkalavitiyiṉ kiḻakku mirāyūrārkaḷ maṉaiyiṉ ṟeṟku minnāṉk[e]-

⟨36⟩ llaiuḷḷu makappaṭṭa maṉaiun tammiṟaiu maṟṟu mepperppaṭṭa uṟbhu tita iṟaiyu-

⟨37⟩ g kāṭṭāte nāṅkaḷe iṟut tivai iṟaiyiliyākat tiruvoṟṟiyūruṭaiya nira[jña] nagu rava-

⟨38⟩ r pakkal vilaikkāṇag kaiyiṟkoṇṭu viṟṟukkuṭutton tiruvoṟṟiyūruṭaiya nira-

⟨39⟩ jañnagu ravaneṉu meṟcollappaṭṭa bhū miu niru maṉaium yāṉ ṟiruvoṟṟiūreṭu-

⟨40⟩ ppitta nirañjaneśva rattu mahādē varkku meṟpaṭi iṟaiili dēvabhōga māka vilai-

⟨41⟩ koṇṭu kaiiṟ kuṭuttu viṟṟukkoṇṭeṉ [|*] maṇali sabhai yomu meṟpaṭi iṟaiili•

⟨42⟩ ••• ka vilaikku•••• ṟkoṇṭu viṟṟukkuṭutto mivvā[va]ṇaṅkuṟi ilirun-

⟨43⟩ tusa] bh ai paṇipaṭi eḻutineṉ ivvūr madhyastha n rudra ppottar kumārakāḷaneṉ [|*] maṇali

⟨44⟩ •• cag kaṇatta[r*]ruḷ yāmeḻutiṭa meṅkaimmāṭṭāṉamayāṟ piṟarāleḻutuvittu i-

⟨45⟩ ppaṭi•• veṭavūr veṇṇayakrama vittaṉug kaḷattūr nilaveṭpaiug [ka]-

⟨46⟩ ṇṭa[raṅka]śarma ṉu [mā]sa rai bhavasvāmibhaṭṭa ṉuñ ceruppaḷḷi veḷikumārabhaṭṭa ṉu mi-

⟨47⟩ rāyūrk kumārakuṉṟaccaṭaṅkaviug komapuṟattuc caṅkaranārāyaṇakra mavittaṉu-

⟨48⟩ g kārampicceṭṭu māppakra mavittaṉuñ ceruppaḷḷi candraśarmma ṉum viṇṇūr nārāya-

⟨49⟩ ṇakrama vittuṉu māsa rai sasōmadēvakrama ttaṉug kaḷattūr kāḷakumārabhaṭṭa ṉun

⟨50⟩ tirumuṇṭakkiḻavar nārāyaṇac caṭaṅkaviu[m*] neṭuveṭpūrt turkkayakra mavittaṉug ka-

⟨51⟩ ḷattūr ravi[dā]sakra mavittaṉu mantirattār[ca]ntayaccaṭaṅkaviug kaḷattūr ni-

⟨52⟩ [la]ṭiccaṭaṅkaviuñ centoṟuttuṟ s[ ō ma] ccaṭaṅkaviu[m*] puḻalūrk kāḷitoṇayakra-

⟨53⟩ mavittaṉum pāṟkuḷattu nākayabhaṭṭa ṉu mivvūr madhyastha n rudra ppottar ciṅkana-

⟨54⟩ [mpi] uḷḷiṭ ṭivvaṉaivo miṉṉu mippaṭi aṟivon tiruvoṟṟiyūrp paṉ[ṟi]pāk-

⟨55⟩ kiḻāṉ poṟṟiug taṅkoṭṭi caṭṭium peruntalaikkāvati tiruvoṟṟiyūraṉu mikkuṭi ku-

⟨56⟩ maraṉu mikkuṭi comaṉu mivvaṉaivo mitu kollai nilag koṇṭu tiruttiyatu

⟨57⟩ iṉṉu mitticaimaṅkalattār pakkaṟ koḷḷaṉkāvati erikaraiiṉ meṟ kiṟaiiliyāka yāṉ

⟨58⟩ viṟṟu kekāṇṭuṭaiya bhū mi patiṉaṟucāṇkolāl muvāirag kuḻiu[m*] pariyalūr nilamāka nikamaṅkiḻār-

⟨59⟩ kkuk kuṭuttu nikamaṅkiḻār pakkal [pa]riyalūr nila niṟaiiliyāy kaṭaṟpāttu nilamāka yāṉ koṇṭu-

⟨60⟩ ṭaiyatu kaṭaṟpātteriyuṭ ṭeṉkaraiiṉ vaṭakkiṟ patiṉaṟucāṇkolāl muvāirag kuḻiu[m*] meṟpaṭi

⟨61⟩ arccanābhōga mākak kuṭutteṉ [|*] śrīśi[lpi]kavarēṇa samyak bhū[tv]ā paramēśva rēṇalivi- ⟨Page 50⟩

⟨62⟩ ta midam śarasana mabhiṣṭasiddhyai śāmuṇḍācārya putrēṇa [|*] śāmuṇḍācārya makaṉ tiru-

⟨63⟩ voṟṟiyū rācārya ṉeḻuttu 1[||*]

⟨SIIv12p0i0106⟩ No. 106. (A.R. No. 498 of 1908). MALLĀM, GUDUR TALUK, NELLORE DISTRICT. ON A SLAB SET UP IN FRONT OF THE SUBRAHMAṆYA TEMPLE.

This inscription of Kampavarman, dated in the 20th year, is engraved above the figure of a person holding his severed head by the tuft in his left hand, while the right hand grasps a sword (Plate VI). It registers a gift of land made by the ūrār of Tiruvāṉmūr to Paṭṭai-Pōttaṉ for the pious act of Okkoṇḍanāgaṉ Okkatīndaṉ Paṭṭai-Pōttaṉ, probably his father, in cutting off flesh from nine parts of his body and finally his head as an offering to the goddess Bhaṭārī, i.e., Durgā.

The rituals connected with human sacrifice offered to the goddess Durgā are described in the Kālikā-Purāṇa, Chapter 70.

The modern Mallām or an ancient suburb of it was known as Tiruvāṉmūr in inscriptions.

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⟨1⟩ śrī kampaparumaṟku yāṇṭu irupatāvatu [pa]ṭṭaipo[t]-

⟨2⟩ [ta]ṉukku [|*] okkoṇṭanākaṉ okkatinta ṉ paṭṭaipottaṉ me-

⟨3⟩ [tavam] purintateṉṟu bhaṭā rikku navakkaṇṭag kuṭuttu

⟨4⟩ [kuṉṟakat]talai aṟuttup piṭalikai mel vaittāṉukku ti-

⟨5⟩ ruvāṉmur ūrār vaitta paricāvatu [|*] emurp paṟaikoṭṭik kal[me]-

⟨6⟩ [ṭu ceytārāvikku]k kuṭu[p]pārāṉār pottaṉag kiḻavarkaḷum to[ṟu]-

⟨7⟩ [ppa]ṭṭi nilam kuṭu[t]tārkaḷ [|*] itu aṉṟeṉṟār kaṅkaiyiṭaik kumarii-

⟨8⟩ [ṭ]ai eḻunūṟṟukkātamum ceytāṉ ceyta pāvattup paṭuva-

⟨9⟩ ār [|*] aṉṟeṉṟār aṉṟāḷkovukku kāṟppo-

⟨10⟩ ṉ ṟaṇṭap paṭuvār [||*]

⟨SIIv12p0i0107⟩ No. 107. (A.R. No. 227 of 1915). BRAHMADĒŚAM, CHEYYAR TALUK, NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT. ON THE SOUTH WALL OF THE CENTRAL SHRINE IN THE CHANDRAMAUḶĪŚVARA TEMPLE.

It is stated in this record of Vijaya-Kampavarman, dated in the 20th year, that a member of the āḷum-gaṇattār of Kāvadippākkam in Paḍuvūr-kōṭṭam made a gift of 11 kaḻañju of gold for supplying, from the interest on this amount, water to the temple of Tiruppondaip-Perumānaḍigaḷ at Rājamalla-chaturvēdimaṅgalam. This village may be identified with Brahmadēśam itself where the present inscription is found. Since we find an inscription of the Gaṅga king Rājamalla, the grandson of Śrīpurusha at Vaḷḷimalai 2not very far from Brahmadēśam, Rājamalla-chaturvēdimaṅgalam, may have been called so after this Gaṅga king. It may be mentioned that in the region surrounding Brahmadēśam there are villages called Srīpurushamaṅgalam 3and Raṇavikrama chaturvēdimaṅgalam 4which must have been named after the Gaṅga kings Śrīpurusha and Raṇavikrama, the grandfather and father respectively of Rājamalla. The name of the god at Brahmadēśam viz., Tiruppondai-Perumānaḍigaḷ is uncommon in the Tamil country and it is probably to be traced to some Gaṅga or Western Chāḷukya 5princess. ⟨Page 51⟩

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] kovicaiya kampavarmarkku yāṇṭu irupatā[vatu] [paṭuvūrkkoṭṭat]tuk kāvati-

⟨2⟩ ppākkam yāḷum kaṇattā[ru]• ñcān•• paṭṭaṉ rāja-

⟨3⟩ mallaccati[ rvvē timag] kalattut tiruppontai-

⟨4⟩ [pp]erumānaṭikaḷ śrīkoyililt taṇṇīr aṭṭuva[tāka v]aitta poṉ patinoru kaḻa-

⟨5⟩ ñcu ippoṉṉāl vanta palicai koṇṭu ta[ṇṇira]ṭṭuvatāka vaitteṉ iddha-

⟨6⟩ rmma (ma)m irakṣittār śrīpādadhūḷi eṉ talai me[laṉa] [||*]

⟨SIIv12p0i0108⟩ No. 108. (A.R. No. 345 of 1906). ŪTTUKKĀḌU, CONJEEVERAM TALUK, CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT. ON THE SOUTH WALL OF THE RUINED PERUMĀḶ TEMPLE.

This is dated in the 25th year of Vijaya-Kampavarman and registers the agreement made by the tirunāmakkiḻavar of Uḻaichchēri in Ūṟṟukkāḍu to burn three lamps and to provide offerings (to the god) for the money and land received by them from Pūśāli Vāmaṉaṉ a resident of the village. The name of the temple is not mentioned in the record, but from the reference made in it to the māhēśvaras, it seems to have been dedicated to Śiva.

Text.

⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] kovic[ai]-

⟨2⟩ ya kamppanma kku yāṇ-

⟨3⟩ ṭu irupattaiñcāva-

⟨4⟩ tu ūṟṟukkāṭṭup pūcā[li]

⟨5⟩ vā[ma]ṉaṉukku ivvū[ru]-

⟨6⟩ ḻaiccerit tirunāmakkiḻa-

⟨7⟩ varkaḷom oṭṭikkuṭu-

⟨8⟩ tta paricāvatu [|*] nandāvi-

⟨9⟩ ḷak kerippa tāka ivar ta-

⟨10⟩ nta poṉṉāl nicati oru

⟨11⟩ nantāviḷak kerippomā-

⟨12⟩ kavum ivarey dēva-

⟨13⟩ rpokañceyta ā[ṉai]-

⟨14⟩ ppulattucceṟuviṉāl

⟨15⟩ pakal iraṇṭu viḷakku nā-

⟨16⟩ yaṟumaṭṭu oru cāmattaḷavum

⟨17⟩ [e]rippomākavum i[rā]

⟨18⟩ [mun]nāḻi ariciyāṟ ṟiruva-

⟨19⟩ [mirtu] kāṭṭuvomākavum i-

⟨20⟩ [vi]ḷakku muṉṟu ntiruvami[to]-

⟨21⟩ nṟuñ cantirāti[tta]-

⟨22⟩ [r] vuḷḷavum celut-

⟨23⟩ [tuva]tākavum itaṟṟiṟampi-

⟨24⟩ [l] māhēśva rar a-

⟨25⟩ damaged

⟨SIIv12p0i0109⟩ No. 109. (A.R. No. 82 of 1932-33). ĀṈŪR, CHINGLEPUT TALUK AND DISTRICT. ON THE SOUTH WALL OF THE MAṆḌAPA IN FRONT OF THE CENTRAL SHRINE IN THE ASTRAPURĪŚVARA TEMPLE.

This is a damaged and incomplete record of Kampavikra[mavarman] dated in the 25th year. It registers an agreement made by the sabhā of Āṉiyūr to burn a perpetual lamp before the god Vambaṅkāṭṭu-Mahādēva for the interest on 40 kaḻañju of gold received by them from Periya Śrīdhara-Kramavittaṉ of Arivilimaṅgalam, a member of the āḷum-gaṇa, evidently of Āṉūr.

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] kovi[cai*]ya kampavik[kira]••• yāṇṭu irupattu añcāvatu kāliyūrk koṭṭattut taṉkū•••••

⟨2⟩ ṅkalam yāḷumkaṇattā••• yapperiya śrīdharakra mavitta(ṉ)ṉeṉ [|*] kaḷat tūrkkoṭṭattu āṉiyūr [sa]••••• ⟨Page 52⟩

⟨3⟩ [nā]lppatiṉkaḻañcu poṉṉum itaṉ palicai••• vampaṅkāṭṭu ma hādē varkku nōndā viḷakku 1- kkā 1ka kuṭutteṉ [arivili]maṅka[lattu*] [p]eriya śrīdharakrama•••

⟨4⟩ ṉiyūr sabhai yomum ippoṉ nālappatiṉka••• taṉ policaikkummāka nōndā viḷakku oru viḷakku muṭṭāme ērippomāṉom sa[bh*]ai yom i•••

⟨5⟩ ceytāṉ ceyta pāpattil(p) paṭuvārka•••••

⟨SIIv12p0i0110⟩ No. 110. (A.R. No. 283 of 1919). MAḌAM, WANDIWASH TALUK, NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT. ON THE SIDE OF A BOULDER CALLED ŚAṞUKKĀMPĀṞAI ABOUT A FURLONG TO THE SOUTH OF THE VILLAGE.

This inscription records that in the 26th year of Vijaya-Kamapavarman, Jayavallavaṉ (Jayavallabha), a merchant of Kuḷattūr in Teṉṉāṟṟūr-nāḍu, a subdivision of Palkuṉṟak-kōṭṭam purchased land from the ūrār of the village and presented it as ērippaṭṭi for the maintenance of a tank, evidently at Maḍam.

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⟨1⟩ kovicaiya kampavikkiramaparumaṟki

⟨2⟩ yāṇṭu irupattāṟāvatu pa-

⟨3⟩ lkuṉṟakkoṭṭattu teṉṉāṟṟū-

⟨4⟩ rnāṭṭuk kuḷattūr vāṇiyar cayava-

⟨5⟩ llavaṉ kuḷattūr ūrār pakkal vi-

⟨6⟩ ṟṟukkoṇṭu eri[p*]paṭṭiceyta caḻai-

⟨7⟩ yāppāṟaic ceṟuvu erippaṭṭi ceytatu [|*]

⟨8⟩ itukku eṉṟu[m] kuttukkāl kāttū-

⟨9⟩ ṭṭiṉṉā[r*] aṭi yeṉ muṭi mel [||*]

⟨SIIv12p0i0111⟩ No. 111. (A.R. No. 144 of 1924). KOḌUṄGALŪR, WANDIWASH TALUK, NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT. ON A SLAB FIXED AT THE ENTRANCE OF THE GAṆAPATI SHRINE.

This record is dated in the [3]2nd year of Vijaya-Kampavarman, which is the latest known date for the king. It registers a sale of some land (?) by the ūrār of Kāvīḍu to a certain Kāḍandai Nakkaṉ Śaḍaiyaṉ, a resident of that village, probably for some charity, the details of which are not clear.

Kāvīḍu may be identified with the village of the same name in the Wandiwash taluk.

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*]

⟨2⟩ kovicaiya kampavi-

⟨3⟩ kkiramapatma [ṟ*]ku yāṇ-

⟨4⟩ ṭu [3]2- āvatu i-

⟨5⟩ vvūrk kāṭantai na-

⟨6⟩ kkaṉ caṭaiyaṉukku-

⟨7⟩ k kāviṭṭurom iv[vū]-

⟨8⟩ [r]•• viṭa viṟṟukku-

⟨9⟩ ṭut[to]m [|*] idhanma g keṭut-

⟨10⟩ [tāṉ] keg[k]aiiṭaik kumarii-

⟨11⟩ ṭaic ceytāṉ pāva- 3

2 Some of the inscribed stones are lost.

⟨SIIv12p0i0112⟩ No. 112. (A.R. No. 357 of 1909). OLAKKŪR, TINDIVANAM TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT. ON A SLAB SET UP NEAR THE VILLAGE CHĀVAḌI.

This inscription records the death of a hero named Todupatti Mātiragaṉ (probably a mahout), 1on the day when the village 2(i.e. Olakkūr) was destroyed in the confusion caused by Kampapperumāḷ with his elephants. A figure of this hero advancing with a drawn sword in his right hand is also represented on the stone.

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⟨1⟩ kampappe-

⟨2⟩ rumāḷ āṉaiyā-

⟨3⟩ ṭiṉa kontaḷat-

⟨4⟩ tu ivvūraḻin-

⟨5⟩ ta nāṭ paṭṭāṉ i-

⟨6⟩ v-

⟨7⟩ vūr

⟨8⟩ to-

⟨9⟩ tupa-

⟨10⟩ tti

⟨11⟩ mātira

⟨12⟩ kaṉ [|*]

⟨13⟩ svasti śrī [||*] VIYIRAMEGAVARMAN.

⟨SIIv12p0i0113⟩ No. 113. (A.R. No. 150 of 1916). POYYAṈŪR, ARKONAM TALUK, NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT. ON A SLAB BUILT INTO THE NORTH WALL OF THE AGASTĪŚVARA TEMPLE.

This inscription, which is highly damaged, seems to record a gift made for providing offerings to the god Tiruvagattīśvara[muḍaiya-Mahādēva], by the assembly of Poygainallūr in Dāmaṟ-kōṭṭam, in the 2nd year of Vayiramēgavarman.

The surname Vayiramēgaṉ 3is applied to Dantivarman in the Triplicane inscription. 4As the characters of the present and the following inscription belong to a later period than Dantivarman, the king figuring in these two records was probably different. A certain chieftain named Vayiramēgaṉ alias Vāṇakōvaraiyar figures in two inscriptions from Tiruvoṟṟiyūr, 5with whom Vayiramēgavarman of the present record may be identified.

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] śrī vayiram[e]kapanma [r*]kku

⟨2⟩ yāṇṭu [2- āvatu] tāmaṟkoṭṭattu

⟨3⟩ poy[kai]nallūr sabhai yo[m] [miv]vūr

⟨4⟩ tiruvakattiśva ra•••••

⟨5⟩ nitta tiruvamirtu paṇ•• mayil • •••

⟨6⟩ •• tiruvamirtukkumāka [v]aiyt•••

⟨SIIv12p0i0114⟩ No. 114. (A.R. No. 152 of 1916). KĪḺPULAM, ARKONAM TALUK, NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT. ON THE NORTH, WEST AND SOUTH WALLS OF THE K4AILĀSANĀTHA TEMPLE.

This record registers a gift of land made in the 2nd year of Vayiramēgavarman by Muḷḷikkuḍaiyāṉ Ādittaṉāḷi for conducting the tiruppali (i.e., śrībali) ceremony and for offerings during the three services in the temple of Tirukkūḷīchcharattu-Āḷvār at ⟨Page 54⟩ Palkalam in Dāmar-kōṭṭam, with five persons including one for beating the gong (śēgaṇḍigai) and two for blowing the trumpets (kāḷam). The assembly (ūr) of Palkalam entrusted the endowed land to Arayaṇichchiṅgaṉ, a drummer (uvaichchaṉ) residing in the village.

The village Palkalam may be identified with Kīḻpulam itself.

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*]

⟨2⟩ śrī vayiramē kapanma ṟku yāṇṭu

⟨3⟩ 2- āvatu tāmarkkoṭṭattup palkalattut tirukkūḷiccara-

⟨4⟩ ttu āḷvārkku ivvūril muḷḷikkuṭai [yā1]ṉ ātittaṉāḷi itte-

⟨5⟩ varkku tiruppa[ṇi] muṉṟu-

⟨6⟩ tecakālamum cekaṇṭi-

⟨7⟩ kai uṭpaṭa ai-

⟨8⟩ ñcāḷ koṇṭu ti-

⟨9⟩ ruppa[li] [koṭṭu]vataṟ-

⟨10⟩ ku vaitta nilam••

⟨11⟩ [l]li [uḻuvā]ṉeṉṟa ceṟuvum

⟨12⟩ ūruvatiyeṉṟa ceṟuvum iv-

⟨13⟩ vūril uvai[cca]r kuriyatu eppo-

⟨14⟩ rpaṭṭatum koṇṭu ivvūril ara-

⟨15⟩ [ya]ṇicciṅka uvaiccaṉ koṭṭuvatāka vait to-

⟨16⟩ m palkalattūrom [|*] ivanukku eppeṟp paṭṭa sa ma-

⟨17⟩ paricāram vaitto-

⟨18⟩ m innilattukku eruma-

⟨19⟩ mañciyu ivaṉey cey-

⟨20⟩ tukoṇṭu orāḷinīr muṟai-

⟨21⟩ toṟu maṭaittukkoḷvatāka vai-

⟨22⟩ ttom ittirukkoyiluṭaiya kū-

⟨23⟩ ḷicivaṉum ivaṉtampi maticūta-

⟨24⟩ civaṉum muṉṟu tecakālamum tiruvamu-

⟨25⟩ tu kāṭṭi iraṇṭāḷk kāḷa mu-

⟨26⟩ tuvārkaḷā[kavum] vaittom palkalattūrom [|*]

⟨27⟩ itdhanmam rakṣi ppār tiruppātameṉ ta(i)lai melaṉa [|*] itdhanmam aḻittār keṅkāk kanyā-

⟨28⟩ ntara ttuc ceytār ceyta pāvattup paṭu vār [|*] ivai

⟨29⟩ kaṟṟaḷip peru[nta] 2ccaṉ makaṉ iḷaṅkāva ṉeḻuttu [||*] CHANDRADITYA.

⟨SIIv12p0i0115⟩ No. 115. (A.R. No. 284 of 1916). MĒLAICHCHĒRI, GINGEE TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT. ON A PILLAR IN THE ROCK-CUT CAVE.

The subjoined inscription, engraved in Pallava-Grantha characters, states that this rock-cut Śiva temple called Śrī-Śikhari-Pallavēśvaram was caused to be made at Siṅhapura by king Chandrāditya. This is the only record hitherto found for the king (See Plate V). This rock-cut temple contains no sculptures or ornamentation of any kind and it may be said to correspond to ‘the Mahēndra Style’ of architecture. The palaeography of the present record also suggests that the king who bore this title or name probably flourished in the time of Mahēndravarman or Narasiṁhavarman I at the latest. As, however, this title does not occur among the numerous birudas found for these in any rock-cut shrine, we have to conclude that Chandrāditya was a Pallava prince of this time, about whom we have at present no information.

Siṅhapura is identical with Śiṅgavaram which is the name of a village close by. The present name of Mēlaichchēri must have been given later to this hamlet with reference to the principal village Śiṅgavaram.

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⟨1⟩ kāritamidannṛpatinā

⟨2⟩ candrādityena sarvva[nāthe]na[|*]

⟨3⟩ śrīśikharipallaveśvaramiti

⟨4⟩ śaivandhā[ma] siṅhapure [||*] ⟨Page 55⟩ MISCELLANEOUS.

⟨SIIv12p0i0116⟩ No. 116. (A.R. No. 663 of 1922). MAHĀBALIPURAM, CHINGLEPUT TALUK AND DISTRICT. ON THE PORTAL OF THE NICHE TO THE RIGHT OF THE VARĀHA CELL IN THE VARĀHA CAVE TEMPLE.

This inscription engraved in the Pallava-Grantha script, gives the oft-quoted verse enumerating the ten incarnations of Vishṇu.

Published in the Epigraphical Report for 1923, p. 94 and Archaeological Survey Memoir. No. 26.

⟨SIIv12p0i0117⟩ No. 117. (A.R. No. 665 of 1922). ON THE FLOOR OF THE SAME CAVE TEMPLE.

This is an imprecatory verse 1engraved in Pallava-Grantha characters. It is also found in the concluding portion of some of the inscriptions at Mahābalipuram but sometimes with the substitute Vishṇuḥ for Rudrah, cursing ‘those in whose hearts does not dwell Rudra (Śiva), the deliverer from the walking on the evil path’. In Mahābalipuram this verse is found at three other places, viz., the Gaṇēśa temple and the Dharmarāja and Rāmānuja maṇḍapas. 2The characters employed in all these cases are of the florid variety.

Published in Epigraphia Indica, Vol. X, Nos. 20, 21 and 22; pp. 9 and 11, and Archaeological Survey Memoir, No. 26. ⟨Page 56⟩

⟨SIIv12p0i0118⟩ No. 118. (A.R. No. 85 of 1918). VṚIDDHĀCHALAM, VRIDDHACHALAM TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT. IN THE SECOND GŌPURA (LEFT OF ENTRANCE) OF THE VṚIDDHAGIRĪŚVARA TEMPLE.

This inscription, dated in the 3rd year of Sakalabhuvanchchakravarttigaḷ Kōpperuñjiṅgadēva, registers a gift of 32 cows for burning a perpetual lamp in the temple of Uḍaiyār Tirumudukuṉṟamuḍaiya-Nāyaṉār by Añjāda-Perumāḷ, son of Āṇḍāḷi, one of the agambaḍittana-mudalis in the service of Śeṅgaṉivāyaṉ Śōḻakōṉār of Araśūr.

Śōḻakōṉār mentioned here was an important officer under Kōpperuñjiṅgadēva I 1and II, holding charge of the region round about the present town of Chidambaram in the South Arcot district. His native place Araśūr is probably identical with the village of that name in the Tirukkoyilur taluk of the same district.

The existence of two Kāḍava chiefs with the name Kōpperuñjiṅgadēva is established in the Introduction. Their records have to be distinguished with care from the internal evidence, astronomical details given and the surname Aḻagiyaśīyaṉ invariably borne by the elder chief.

In the details given for the calculation of date in the present record śu is wrongly quoted for ba., since śu. 10 connot combine with nakshatra Pūśam in the month of Siṁha. With this emendation there is no date in the reign of Kōpperuñjiṅgadēva II for the details given, but they, however, correspond to A.D. 1234, August 21, Monday which fell in the period of Kōpperuñjiṅga I. This record must, therefore, be ascribed to the latter chief.

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] [sakala]bhuvanaccakravatti kaḷ śrīkopperuñciṅka-

⟨2⟩ t[evaṟku yā]ṇṭu 3- āvatu siṁha nāyaṟṟu pūrvvapakṣa ttu daśami yu-

⟨3⟩ m tiṅkaṭkiḻamaiyum peṟṟa pūcattunāḷ vaṭakarai virutarā-

⟨4⟩ jabha yaṅkaravaḷanāṭṭu meṟkānāṭṭu iruṅkoḷappāṭinā-

⟨5⟩ ṭṭup paruvūr kūṟṟattu uṭaiyār tirumutukuṉṟamuṭaiya nāya-

⟨6⟩ ṉārkku aracūruṭaiyāṉ ceṅkaṉivāyaṉ coḻakoṉār akam-

⟨7⟩ paṭittaṉa mutalikaḷil āṇṭāḷi makaṉ añcātaperumāḷ iṉṉā-

⟨8⟩ yaṉārkku vaitta tirununtāviḷak koṉṟukku viṭṭa pacu 32 ip-

⟨9⟩ pacu muppattiraṇṭum kaikkoṇṭa iṉṉāyaṉār maṉṟāṭik kuṭi-

⟨10⟩ makkaḷil uyyavantāṉ marutaṉ cuṟṟikkoneṉ iṉnāḷmu-

⟨11⟩ tal kaikkoṇṭu nāḷoṉṟukku tovāśri yaṉnāḻiyāl aḷakkakkaṭa-

⟨12⟩ venāṉa ney te iṉney yuḻakkum candrādityavat aḷakkakkaṭave-

⟨13⟩ ṉ uyyavantāṉ marutaṉ cūṟṟikkoneṉ [|*] itu panmāhēśvara rakṣai [||*]

⟨SIIv12p0i0119⟩ No. 119. (A.R. No. 285 of 1921). ĀTTŪR, CHINGLEPUT TALUK AND DISTRICT. ON THE NORTH AND WEST WALLS OF THE MUKTĪŚVARA TEMPLE.

This record is dated in the 5th year of Sakalabhuvanachchakravartin Kōpperuñjiṅgadēva and it records the gift of the village Āttūr alias Rājarājanallūr in Āṟṟūr-nāḍu, a subdivision of Ūṟṟukkāṭṭūk-kōṭṭam in Jayaṅgoṇḍaśōḻa- ⟨Page 57⟩ maṇḍalam, by Aḻagiyaśīyaṉ Avaṉiāḷappiṟandāṉ Kāḍavaṉ Kōpperuñjiṅgaṉ, for constructing, as a gōpura with 7 storeys, the southern entrance called ‘Śokkachchīyaṉtirunilai’ of the temple of Tiruchchiṟṟambalam-Uḍaiyār at Perumbaṟṟappuliyūr (i.e., Chidambaram). The Pāṇḍya emblems of a pair of fish and goad found in relief on the jambs and beams of this gōpura indicate that the construction must have been started in the reign of a Pāṇḍya king. It is stated that this inscription, besides being engraved at Āṟṟūr, was also ordered to be recorded in the temple of Tiruvēgambamuḍaiya-Nāyaṉār, probably Ēkāmranātha at Conjeeveram. A copy of the record is found at Chidambaram wherein 1the engraving of the present inscription at Āttūr is also referred to. The document is attested by Kōpperuñjiṅga, Kurukularājaṉ and Villavarājaṉ.

The wording in this inscription where the chief himself figures as donor is peculiar. This form, though not uncommon, is not often met with in inscriptions.

From the surname Aḻagiyaśīyaṉ and the probable reference to this gōpura of seven storeys in a record 2of the 24th year of Rājarāja III, i.e., A.D. 1240, the present inscription has to be assigned to Kōpperuñjiṅgadēva I. 3

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrīḥ [||*] sakalahuvanaccakravatti kopperuñciṅkatevarkku yāṇṭu 5- vatu taṉiyūr perumpaṟṟappuliyūr uṭaiyār tirucciṟṟampalamuṭaiyārkku aḻakiyaciyaṉ avaṉiāḷap piṟantāṉ kāṭavaṉ kopperuñ-

⟨2⟩ ciṅkaṉeṉ [|*] iṉṉāyaṉār koyilt teṟkilt tiruvācal cokkacciyaṉ tirunilai eḻukopura mākac ceyyat tiruppaṇikku uṭalāka jayaṅkoṇṭacoḻamaṇṭalattu ūṟṟukkāṭṭukkoṭṭattu āṟṟūrnāṭṭu āṟṟūrāṉa rājarāja nallūrkku ellai [|*]

⟨3⟩ īñcalāṟṟuk kiḻkaraikku meṟkkum ceyyāṟu niroṭukālukku vaṭakkum villiyaṉpākkattu ellaikkuk kiḻakkum cāttaṉampākkattum koṉkāṭṭu ellaikkum teṟkkum naṭuvuḷppaṭṭa tarappaṭi nilam muṉṉūṟṟaṟupattu nālveli itil uḷḷūrt-

⟨4⟩ tevarkaḷ tevatāṉaṅkaḷum tiruviṭaiyāṭṭaṅkaḷum piṭāripaṭṭi tukkaipaṭṭi paḷḷikcantam uḷp paṭa nilam nāṟpattaṟu veliyum akaram mahāvibhūticcaturvēdi maṅkalam nilam paṉṉiru veliyum ceṭṭalūrp pirāṉpaṭṭaṉukkum māṭapocai varatarācapaṭṭaṉuk-

⟨5⟩ kum vaṅkipuṟattu karuṇākarapaṭṭaṉukkum bhaṭṭavṛtti nilam oru veliyum kaṭikaiyār iṟaiyili nilam muṉṟekālum āka nilam aṟupattiraṇṭekāl nikki nikki[niṉṟa*] nilam muṉṉūṟ ṟoṉṟe mukkālum kollaip puṉcaiyum kācāyaṅkaḷum veṭṭi pāṭikāvalum arippāṭikāva lum uḷppaṭa

⟨6⟩ nellāyaṅkaḷum kācāyaṅkaḷum ivvūrt tevarkaḷ tevatāṉam akaraṅkaḷ uḷppaṭṭa iṟaiyilikaḷukku muṉpu koṇṭuvarum āyaṅka ḷuḷppaṭa aṉaittāyaṅkaḷum uḷppaṭa tevatāṉa iṟaiyiliyāka añcāvatu āṭimāsa mutal dvandrāditya varai celvatāka iṭṭom [|*] uṭaiyār tiruvekampamuṭaiya

⟨7⟩ nāyaṉār koyililum āṟṟūril tirumuttiśvara muṭaiyār koyililum kallumveṭṭi nāṟpāl ellaiyilum tiruccūlasthā paṉamum paṇṇi koyil(p) paṇṭārattārkku eṟakkaṭamai kuṭimai pokkaṟuppārkaḷākac coṉṉom [|*] ippaṭi ceyvate [|*] ivai kopperuñciṅka ṉeḻuttu

⟨8⟩ eṉṟum ivai kurukularāja ṉeḻuttu eṉṟum

⟨9⟩ ivai villavarāja ṉeḻuttu eṉṟum vanta tiru-

⟨10⟩ mukappaṭi kal veṭṭiyatu௳ ⟨Page 58⟩

⟨SIIv12p0i0120⟩ No. 120. (A.R. No. 286 of 1921). ON THE SAME WALLS.

The first portion of this record consists of a string of birudas in Sanskrit which describe the family, character and achievements of Kōpperuñjiṅgadēva. The concluding portion is in Tamil and contains an order of the chief issued, through his officer Nīlagaṅgaraiyar, to the residents of Āṟṟūr remitting, in favour of the god Āḷuḍaiya-Nāyaṉār, from the 5th year of the chief's rule, the tax aripāḍikāval excluding kāvalpēṟu, on their village which was hitherto collected by the king. In the Sanskrit portion the chief is called Pallavakula-pārijāta, Kāḍavakula-chūḍāmaṇi, Avanipālana-jāta, etc. He claims supremacy over the Chōḷa, Pāṇḍya, Chēdi, Karṇāṭa and Āndhra kings. The chief's conflict with Gaṇḍagōpāla and the extent of his dominions are indicated by the titles ‘Gaṇḍa-bhaṇḍāra 1-luṇṭāka’ Kshīrāpagādakshiṇanāyaka, Kāvērī-kāmuka and Peṇṇānadī-nātha. The title ‘Khaḍgamalla’ corresponding to the Tamil ‘Vāḷvalla’ explains the heroism, while the epithets ‘Bhāratamalla’ and ‘Sāhityaratnākara’ describe the cultural attainments of the chief. His connection with Mallai i.e., Mahābalipuram and Conjeeveram is indicated by the titles Mallāpuri-vallabha 2and Kāñchīpurī-kānta. 3The last verse in the Sanskrit portion gives a clue to the identification of Kōpperuñjiṅga. This verse, conveying a double entendre, refers to the attempts of the chief to enjoy Dhātrī, i.e. Earth, when it is implied that the town Kāñchī was taken and Madhya-(dēśa) i.e., Naḍu-nāḍu was conquered. Since the capture of Toṇḍai-maṇḍalam and Naḍu-nāḍu is to be attributed to the elder Peruñjiṅga, this record may be assigned to him.

The officer Nīlagaṅgaraiyar, from the title piḷḷaiyār applied to him, appears to have been a favourite and important officer of Kōpperuñjiṅgadēva. Three generations of Nīlagaṅgaraiyars are known, viz., (l) Kulōttuṅgaśōḻa Kaṇṇappaṉ Nallanāyaṉār Pañchanadivāṇaṉ Nīlagaṅgaraiyar (16th year of Kulōttuṅga-Chōḷa 111), 4(2) the officer figuring in the present inscription, and (3) his son, Pañchanadivāṇaṉ Aruṇagiriperumāḷ Nīlagaṅgaraiyar figuring in the time of Vijaya-Gaṇḍagōpāla, 5Sundara-Pāṇḍya 6 and Kōpperuñjiṅgadēva II. 7They were in power in the present Chingleput district under the Chōḷas and their successors and sometimes issued orders in their own names. 8

Aripāḍikāval may be explained as a tax payable in kind to the king for protection.

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrīḥ [||*] ēta ttrailōkyabhūpālamaulimāṇikkamaṇḍanam [|*] śrīmat gōnara siṁhasya khaṭgamal lasya śāsana m || tribhuvanabhūpāḷanāyakassamastabhuvana bhūpaticūḍāmaṇi pādapiṭhapratiṣṭhitapādapaṅkajaścōḷapratiṣṭhācāryyaḥ pāṇḍyamaṇḍaladaṇḍadharastōṇḍīramaṇḍalapuṇḍarīkamārttā-

⟨2⟩ ṇḍaḥ karṇṇāṭārṇṇavakumbhasambhavaḥ āndhrasindhumandhācalaścēdirājagiridurgganighāta bhēribhāṅkāraḥ pararājaghaṭṭanagharaṭṭaḥ paragaṇḍakaṇṭhīrava[gaṇḍa*]phēruṇḍacaṇḍa mārutaḥ abhimānatuṅgassaṅgrāmarāmaḥ a[sahāya] [vī]ra ā havadhīrō bharatamal lo9 bhāratamal laḥ ⟨Page 59⟩

⟨3⟩ khaḍgamal laḥ pal lavakulapārijātaḥ kāṭavakulacūḍāmaṇiravanipālanajātō maṅgalanila yō viravinō[da]styāgavin[ō]dō gaṇḍabhaṇḍāraluṇṭākaḥ pararājāntaḥpura bandikārassā hityaratnākarō mal lāpuri-

⟨4⟩ val labhaḥ kāñcīpurīkāntaḥ kābērīkāmukaḥ kṣīrāpagādakṣiṇa nāyakaḥ pēṇṇānadīnāthaḥ kanakasabhāpatisabhāsarvakāryyasa[rva]kālanirvāhakō gōpṛthusiṁha mahārājassakalabhuvanacakravartti ௳ nṛttēśvarāya

⟨5⟩ puragōpurasālapūjā mācandratāramavilān tu dadau vidhātum [|*] tōṇḍīra maṇḍalamahītala rājarājakhyāta nnadīnjanapadam karavāḷamal laḥ [||*] śrīkhaḍgamallē jagadē kavīrē bhōktum

⟨6⟩ karagrāhiṇi bhūtadhātrim [|*] kāñcīhṛtā kampitamaṅgadēśairmmadhyōtibhugnaśca litōḷakā(ṅ)ntaḥ || ௳ kopperuñciṅkaṉ olai [*] āṟṟūr ūravar kaṇṭu viṭu tantatāvatu ௳

⟨7⟩ svasti śrī

⟨8⟩ āṟṟūr ūravarkku

⟨9⟩ niṉaippu [|*]

⟨10⟩ taṅkaḷūr aiñcāvatu āṭimāsa mutal āḷuṭaiyanāyaṉārkkut tevatāṉamāka

⟨11⟩ aṉaittāyaṅkaḷum uṭpaṭa tevar tirumukam kuṭuttaruḷiṉapaṭiye ūr kāvalppe[r]

⟨12⟩ koḷḷum kāvalppeṟu nīkki nāṅkaḷ koḷḷakkaṭava arippāṭikāval

⟨13⟩ āḷuṭaiyanāyaṉārkku nirvārttuk kuṭuttom [|*] ippaṭikkut taṅkaḷūril

⟨14⟩ koyilile kalluveṭṭivittuk koḷvate [|*] ivai nilakaṅkaraya ṉeḻuttu eṉṟu

⟨15⟩ piḷḷaiyār pañcanativāṇaṉāṉa nilakaṅkarayar śāsa ṉappaṭi kalveṭṭiyatu poṉ

⟨SIIv12p0i0121⟩ No. 121. (A.R. No. 83 of 1918). VṚIDDHĀCHALAM, VRIDDHACHALAM TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT. IN THE SECOND GŌPURA (LEFT OF ENTRANCE) OF THE VṚIDDHAGIRĪŚVARA TEMPLE.

This inscription of the 6th year of Kōpperuñjiṅgadēva records a gift of 4 mā of garden land called ‘Aḻagiyapallavaṉ-tōppu,’ in Ūṟṟukkuṟuchchi alias Ādaṉūr in Kūḍal-nāḍu, by Āḷappiṟandāṉ Aḻagiyaśīyaṉ Kōpperuñjiṅgaṉ of Kūḍal in Kīḻ-Āmūrnāḍu, a subdivision of Tirmuṉaippāḍi, for supplying arecanuts, flower-garlands, etc., to the god at Tirumudukuṉṟam in Paruvūr-kūṟṟam, a subdivision of Iruṅgōḷappāḍi in Mēṟkā-nāḍu, situated in Virudarājabhayaṅkara-vaḷanāḍu.

The village Ādaṉūr may be identified with one of the two villages of the same name in the Vriddhachalam taluk. Kūḍal, the native place of Kōpperuñjiṅgadēva, is probably identical with Kūḍalūr i.e., Cuddalore in the South Arcot District. The garden Aḻagiyapallavaṉ-tōppu must have been so called after the surname of the chief. It may be pointed out that Kōpperuñjiṅga II also bore this surname. 1

For the astronomical details given in the inscription there is only one tallying date between A.D. 1220 and 1260, viz. A.D. 1234, March 22, Wednesday. It is doubtful whether the regnal year is correctly quoted here.

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] sakalabhuvanaccakravatti kaḷ śrī kopperuñcigtevaṟku yāṇṭu 6-

⟨2⟩ āvatu minanāyaṟṟu aparapakṣa ttu ṣaṣṭi yum putankiḻamaiyum peṟṟa mulattunāḷ vaṭaka-

⟨3⟩ rai virutarājabha yaṅkaravaḷanāṭṭu meṟkā[nāṭ]ṭu iruṅkoḷappāṭip paruvūṟkkūṟṟat- ⟨Page 60⟩

⟨4⟩ tu uṭaiyār tirumutukuṉṟamuṭaiyaṉāyaṉārkku tirumuṉaippāṭik kiḻāmūrnāṭṭuk kūṭa-

⟨5⟩ l āḷappiṟantāṉ aḻakiyaciyaṉ kopperuñciṅkaṉ iṉnāṭṭuk kūṭalnāṭṭu ūṟṟu-

⟨6⟩ kkuṟucciyāṉa ātaṉūril iṉṉāyaṉārkku viṭṭa tevatānaiṟaiyili aḻakiyapal-

⟨7⟩ lavaṉtoppuc cuṟṟuk kulaiyil niṉṟa maranilaiyuḷpaṭa kamuku nilam nālu-

⟨8⟩ māvum innāyaṉārkku tiruamutupākkum kaṟiyamutu uḷḷiṭṭa veñcana[g]kaḷu-

⟨9⟩ kkum itil uḷpaṭṭa nilattil ceṅkaḻunirt tiruppaḷḷittāmamum ākkavum innilam

⟨10⟩ viṭṭom [|*] ippaṭi candrādittavat cellappaṇṇuka௳

⟨SIIv12p0i0122⟩ No. 122. (A.R. No. 497 of 1921). TIRUVEṆṆAINALLŪR, TIRUKKOYILUR TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT. ON THE EAST WALL OF THE MAṆḌAPA IN FRONT OF THE CENTRAL SHRINE IN THE VAIKUṆṬHA-PERUMĀḶ TEMPLE.

In this inscription, dated in the 8th year, Kōpperuñjiñgadēva is given the surname Aḻagiyaśīyaṉ. It records a gift of 5 cows by Tirumalaiy-Aḻagiyāṉ alias Vīra[gaḷ*] vīrap-Pallavaraiyaṉ, 1a Kaikkōḷa-mudali of Tiruveṇṇainallūr for supplying daily milk by the measure ‘Arumoḻidēva-nāḻi’ to the god Vaikunda (Vaikuṇṭha) [p-Perumāḷ]. This donor figures in A.D. 1237 2and his death is referred to in No. 189 below. From the title Aḻagiyaśīyaṉ given to the chief, he may be identified with the elder Kōpperuñjiṅga.

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] sakalabhuva ṉaccakra vattikaḷ aḻakiyaciyaṉ kopperuñciṅkatevaṟkku yāṇṭu 8- vatu tiruveṇṇainallūr śrīvaikunta•••••

⟨2⟩ kkoḷamutalikaḷil tirumalaiyaḻakiyāṉāṉa vīra[kaḷ*]vīrappallavaraiyaṉ ikkoyil curapimaṉṟāṭi kaḷil maṇavāḷakkoṉ pakkal•••••

⟨3⟩ 5 ippacu añcukkum nāḷoṉṟukku arumoḻitevaṉāḻiyāl unta ppāl candrādi ttavarai cellakkaṭavatākak kalveṭṭik••••• 3

⟨SIIv12p0i0123⟩ No. 123. (A.R. No. 94 of 1934-35). VṚIDDHĀCHALAM, VRIDDHACHALAM TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT. ON THE WEST WALL OF THE MAṆḌAPA IN FRONT OF THE CENTRAL SHRINE IN THE VṚIDDHAGIRĪŚVARA TEMPLE.

This is dated in the 8th year of Sakalabhuvanachakravartin Kōpperuñjiṅgadēva and records a gift of 128 cows by Śeṅganivā[yaṉ] Śōḻakōn of Araśūr and a mudali of Āḷappiṟa[ndān] Āḻagiyaśīyaṉ Kōpperuñjiṅga, for burning 4 perpetual lamps before the god at Tirumudukuṉṟam in Paruvūr-kūṟṟam, a subdivision of Mēṟkā-nāḍu Iruṅgōḷappāḍi-nāḍu in Vaḍagarai Virudarājabhayaṅkara-vaḷanāḍu.

The date of the record, according to the astronomical details given, was either A.D. 1240, Jan. 11, Wednesday, or A.D. 1251, January 11, Wednesday. In both cases the nakshtra was Makhā, not Punarpūśam as quoted in the inscription. Since the donor is stated to have been a mudali of Aḻagiyaśīyaṉ Kōpperuñjiṅga, the date of the inscription was probably A.D. 1240.

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⟨1⟩ ḷa svasti śrī [||*] sakalabhu vaṉaccakravatti kaḷ śrīkopperuñciṅkatevaṟku yāṇṭu 8- vatu

⟨2⟩ makaranāyaṟṟu aparapakṣattu dvi tiyaiyum putaṉkiḻamaiyum peṟṟa puṇarpūca-

⟨3⟩ ttunāḷ vaṭakarai virutarājabha yaṅkaravaḷanāṭṭu meṟkānāṭṭu iruṅko- ⟨Page 61⟩

⟨4⟩ ḷappāṭināṭṭup paruvūṟkūṟṟattu uṭaiyār tirumutukunṟamuṭaiyanāya-

⟨5⟩ ṉāṟku āḷappiṟa•• 1aḻakiyaciyaṉ kopperuñciṅkan mutalikaḷil aracūruṭai-

⟨6⟩ yāṉ ceṅkanivā• 1 coḻakon vaitta tirununtāviḷakku nālukku viṭṭa pa-

⟨7⟩ cu 128 ippacu• 1 ṟu irupatteṭṭum kaikkoṇṭa kaṇṇikkon ammaiyā-

⟨8⟩ ḻvānāṉa iraṇ[ṭa]•• 1 kkon kaikkoṇṭa pacu muppattiraṇṭum kuṉṟan

⟨9⟩ viḷakka[n] kaikko• 1 pacu muppattiraṇṭum uṭaiyān maiñcan kaikkoṇṭa pa-

⟨10⟩ cu muppattiraṇṭum [ma]llan āḷappiṟanti kaikkoṇṭa pacu muppattiraṇṭum ākap pacu 128

⟨11⟩ ippacu nūṟṟuirupatteṭṭum kaikkoṇṭu nāḷ oṉṟukkut tirununtāviḷakku oṉṟuk-

⟨12⟩ kut tevāciriyanāl aḷakkum ney uḻakkākat tirununtāviḷakku nālukku aḷakkum ney nā-

⟨13⟩ ḻi inney nāḻiyum cantirātittavarai aḷakkakkaṭavom itu paṉmāhēśvara rakṣai u

⟨SIIv12p0i0124⟩ No. 124. (A.R. No. 73 of 1918). IN THE SECOND GŌPURA (RIGHT OF ENTRANCE) OF THE SAME TEMPLE.

This important record, dated in the 10th year, is unfortunately damaged and left unfinished. It refers to a battle that was fought at Perumbalūr (probably Perambalūr in the Trichinopoly district) wherein Kōpperuñjiṅgadēva is said to have defeated and killed some Hoysaḷa generals of whom the names of Kēśava, Harihara and Tīkkāṉaip-perumāḷ are legible in the record, and also to have captured their ladies and treasures. In expiation of this act Avaṉiāḷappiṟandāṉ alias Kōpperuñjiṅgadēva of Kūḍal in Kīḻ-Āmūr-nāḍu, a subdivision of Tirumuṉaippāḍi, made a gift of a gold forehead-plate called ‘Avaṉi-āḷappiṟandāṉ’ set with jewels for the god Tirumudukuṉṟamuḍaiya-Nāyaṉār and of cows for the maintenance of sacred lamps in the temple.

The Hoysaḷa general Kēśava is probably identical with the officer of the same name figuring in a record of the 24th year of Rājarāja III at Conjeeveram. 2

In the astronomical details given, śu must be a mistake for ba, for the former cannot combine with nakshatra Rēvatī in the month of Siṁha. There is not corresponding Christian date in the reign of Kōpperuñjiṅga II for the details given, but they work satisfactorily for A.D. 1241, July 29, Monday. This date falls in the reign of Kōpperuñjiṅgadēva I, assuming that, as suggested elsewhere, 3this chief commenced his regnal year from A.D. 1231-32, the date of the imprisonment of the Chōḷa king Rājarāja III at Śēndamaṅgalam. The present record would then belong to Kōpperuñjiṅga I.

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrīḥ [||*] sakalabhuvanaccakravatti kaḷ śrīkopperuñciṅkatevaṟku yāṇ-

⟨2⟩ ṭu 10- āvatu siṁ hanāyaṟṟu pūrvvapakṣa ttu pañcami yum tiṅkaḷkiḻa[maiyum peṟ]-

⟨3⟩ ṟa revatināḷ vaṭakarai virutarāja[paya]ṅkaravaḷanāṭṭu meṟkāṉāṭṭu iruṅkoḷa-

⟨4⟩ ppāṭip paruvūṟkūṟṟattu uṭaiyār tirumutukuṉṟamuṭaiyanāyaṉārkku tirumuṉai-

⟨5⟩ ppāṭik kiḻāmūrnāṭṭuk kūṭal [avaṉiā]ḷappi[ṟantāṉāṉa] kopperuñciṅkaṉ

⟨6⟩ perumpalūril pocaḷaṉār daṇḍan [āyaka]m ceyvārkaḷil• [va]• [ṉāṉa] kecavaṉum

⟨7⟩ hari haradaṇḍa nāyakaṉum [yatipati]tevaṉum tikkāṉaipperumāḷ uḷḷiṭṭa daṇḍa nā-

⟨8⟩ ya(k)kañceyvārkaḷai uyuttakaḷattile•• [taruḷi]•• ivarkaḷ peṇṭi[r*]paṇṭā-

⟨9⟩ ra muḷpaṭak kavarntukoṇṭa itukku prā [yaccittamāka] iṉṉāyaṉār tirumeṉiyil cātti-

⟨10⟩ aruḷa avaṉiāḷappiṟantāṉ eṉṉum tirunāmattāl [|*] cāruratnamayampaṭṭamavanyava-

⟨11⟩ nasambhavaḥ didēśa tridaśēśāya śrīvṛddhagirivāsinē [|*] ippaṭiyāl cāttiaruḷiṉa ti- ⟨Page 62⟩

⟨12⟩ ruppaṭṭam 1- l ceyta mukam 3- l tacca komaḷam 3- m vayirattaruppu 72- m piñcum [nilai]-

⟨13⟩ āṇiyum uṭpaṭppaṭi poṉ 100 27:— iṉṉāḷil ney āṭiaruḷa viṭṭa pacu 200- m

⟨14⟩ pāl āṭiaruḷa viṭṭa pacu 90- m āka pacu 2[9]0 itil 1

⟨SIIv12p0i0125⟩ No. 125. (A.R. No. 296 of 1912). ATTI, CHEYYAR TALUK, NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT. ON THE SOUTH WALL OF THE AGASTĪŚVARA TEMPLE.

This is a set of six verses in Tamil in the Kaṭṭaḷaikkalittuṟai metre praising the greatness of Pallavāṇḍār alias Kāḍavarāyar ‘who conquered Toṇḍai-maṇḍalam’ and who was the son of Kūḍal Āḷappiṟandāṉ alias Kāḍavarāyar. He is called Pallavaṉ, Kāḍavar-kōṉ, Kūḍal-maṉṉavar and one of the verses alludes to the battle at Śēvūr, probably identical with Mēl-Śēvūr in the Tindivanam taluk of the South Arcot district, where he slew a large number of his enemies and ‘created mountains of dead bodies and swelling rivers of blood’. His opponent on the battle-field at Śēvūr is not specified, but the result was the conquest of Toṇḍai-nāḍu which included Peṇṇai-nāḍu, Vaḍa-Vēṅgaḍam and Kachchi ‘surrounded by the sea’. That Pallavāṇḍār also defeated the northern powers is indicated by a verse stating that the ‘northern kings who did not come and make obeisance to the Kāḍava, could not find even a hill or a forest to which they could flee for refuge’.

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] kūṭal āḷappiṟantāṉāṉa kāṭavarāyar makaṉār toṇṭaimaṇṭalag

⟨2⟩ koṇṭa pallavāṇṭārāṉa kāṭavarāyar kalveṭṭu [||*] taṅko nakarpeṟat tampulitāmpeṟat tāḷ

⟨3⟩ vaṇaṅkiya ceṅkol vaḷaikkai yarivaiyaroṭum [a]ṭiyug kaiyum paṅkeruka maṉṉa pallavaṉ kāṭava-

⟨4⟩ ṉ pārmuḻutā ḷeṅkoṉṉu[m] tan toḷiliṭa maṉṉarem maṉṉare ||— [1*] porutikki luñ ceṉṟu por-

⟨5⟩ veṉṟa pallavaṉ kāṭavarkoṉ karutip [p]orc ceṉṟu cevūriṉiṟ tirukkaṇ civakkap parutikku melu muyar piṇakkuṉ-

⟨6⟩ ṟiṟ parantiḻinta kurutip puṉaltoṇṭai naṉṉāṭṭaṅkalug koṇṭatuve ||— [2*] kūrāḻi yentiya pallavaṟkuk

⟨7⟩ kūṭal maṉṉavaṟkup pārāḻi cūḻnticaiparikku[p] panti paṇṭaṭaitta nirāḻi veḻaṅkaṇīrāṭu māmaṭuniṉṟa

⟨8⟩ k[oṟṟap] perāḻi veṟpivaṉ ceṅkol naṭakkum peruvaḻiye ||— [3*] toḻu[ti]yalā maṉṉar

⟨9⟩ toṇṭait tirunāṭu koṇṭavarur kaḻutiyalakkaṇṭa kāṭavaṉ pallavaṉ kāciṉi-

⟨10⟩ meṟ paḻutiyalāt taṉicceṅkol naṭāttip parākra mañ ceṉṟeḻutiya tūṇa-

⟨11⟩ ṅka ḷeṇṭicai cūḻnta veḻakiriye ||- [4*] kaimmalai veḷḷak kaṭaṟpaṭaip pallava-

⟨12⟩ ṉ kāṭavar tañcemmalai vantu paṇiyā vaṭamaṉṉar ceṉaiviṭṭut tammalai viṭṭup puṟama-

⟨13⟩ lai velittalattuḷañcā temmalaiyeccurattup pukuvār pukkiruppataṟke ||— [5*] vaṇṭaṟ puṉaṟ

⟨14⟩ peṇṇaināṭuṭaiyāṉ vaṭaveṅkaṭaveṟpa[ṉ] toṇṭaittirunāṭu toḷvaliyāṟ koṇ-

⟨15⟩ ṭa toṇṭai maṉṉaṉ kaṇṭaṟa kaṭaṟkaccip pallavaṉ kāṭa[va]2ṉ kāriruḷiṟ paṇṭappiramavark kaṉpilā[p*] po-

⟨16⟩ [ṉ]3patāmpuyaṉe ||— [6*] ik kalveṭ ṭaḻippāṉ taṉ vagśa ttut taṉ pitāvukkup piṟavātāṉ [||*] ⟨Page 63⟩

⟨SIIv12p0i0126⟩ No. 126. (A.R. No. 182 of 1919). TRIBHUVANI, PONDICHERRY, FRENCH INDIA. ON THE SOUTH WALL OF THE VARADARĀJA-PERUMĀḶ TEMPLE.

This inscription records in Tamil and Sanskrit the benefactions of the chief Sakalabhuvanachakravartti Kāḍavaṉ Avaṉiāḷappiṟandāṉ Kōpperuñjiṅga. He is called Bhūpālanōdbhava, 1Kāṭhakavaṁśa-mauktika-maṇi and the conqueror of the Āndhra and the Karṇāṭa kings. The record states that the chief constructed a temple for Hēramba-Gaṇapati on the banks of the tank at Tribhuvanamādēvī and that he repaired the embankments, sluices and irrigation channels of the tank which had breached in several places.

Since the inscription refers to the conquest of the Chōḷa (country), Madhyamamahī (i.e., Naḍu-nāḍu) and Tuṇḍiradēśa (i.e. Toṇḍai-maṇḍalam) by the chief, he may be identified with Kōpperuñjiṅga I.

Hēramba-Gaṇapati is generally represented with five elephant heads, 10 arms and as riding on a lion. [An early sculpture of this deity is found in a rock-cut temple at Tirupparaṅkuṉṟam near Madura-Ed.]

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⟨1⟩ ௳ svasti śrīḥ- cakalapuvaṉaccakkaravatti kāṭavaṉ avaṉiāḷappiṟantāṉ kopperuñciṅkaṉ

⟨2⟩ tiripuvaṉamātevi erikarai pala iṭaṅkaḷilum uṭaintu eriyum tukuntu matakukaḷum muṟin-

⟨3⟩ tu kaliṅkukaḷum aḻintukiṭakkayil uṭainta maṭaikaḷum aṭaittu eriyum kalli karaiyu-

⟨4⟩ m kaṟkaṭṭi matakukaḷu maṭṭu[vi*]ttu kaliṅkukaḷum ceytapaṭi ௳ grāmarājataṭākasya tīrē hērambadantinaḥ śilā-

⟨5⟩ bhirakarōścālām rājā bhūpālanōtbhavaḥ—tribhuvanamahādēvīgrāmē taṭāka manēkataśśithilitataṭam rājā bhūlōka-

⟨6⟩ pālanasambhavaḥ phaṇipatiphaṇaśrēṇimā[ṇi]kkadarśamakhānayat suvihitataṭā bhōgam bhū[ya]stamēnamakalpayat ௳ rājā kāṭhakavamśa-

⟨7⟩ mauktikamaṇi rbhūlōkarakṣōtbhavō vittairnnirjjita cōḷamaddhyammahītuṇḍiradē śāhṛtaiḥ grāmēsmin samabandhayat girita-

⟨8⟩ ṭāsphāraiśśilāpaṭaṭakai ssētum rāmaḷavāparō jalanidhau kūlantaṭākōtta mē ௳ khaḍgakēḷivijitānnḍrakarṇaṭō bhūpa-

⟨9⟩ tirddharaṇipālanōtbhavaḥ grāvabandhanadṛḍhānakalpayadvārinirggamapathān jalāśayē ௳ pravarttayannēva diganta bhittikūlaṅka-

⟨10⟩ ṣān kīrttinadīpravāhān bhūbhōgajātaḥ parivāhabandham vyadhāt śilāstambhaśa taistaṭākē ௳ svasti śrīḥ ௳

⟨SIIv12p0i0127⟩ No. 127. (A.R. No. 178 of 1921). MŌRIJONA, NEAR RAṄGAMPĒṬṬAI, GUDIYATTAM TALUK, NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT. ON A ROCK TO THE SOUTH OF THE VILLAGE.

This inscription consists of a single Tamil verse in the Kaṭṭaḷaikkalittuṟai metre praising Pallavāṇḍār alias Vīrarvīraṉ-Kāḍavarāyar, ‘who conquered Toṇḍai-maṇḍalam’ and who was the son of Kūḍal-Āḷappiṟandār. The same verse is also found as the third verse in the Atti record of Pallavāṇḍār alias Kāḍavarāyar (No. 125 above) and thus establishes that both the Atti and Mōrijona inscriptions belong to the same chief. ⟨Page 64⟩

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] kūṭal āḷappiṟa[nt]ār makaṉār toṇṭaimaṇ-

⟨2⟩ ṭalaṅk[o]ṇṭa pallav[ā]ṇṭārāṉa virarviraṉ kāṭavarā-

⟨3⟩ yar tā•• [kūr]āḻiyentiya pallava[ṟ]kuk kūṭalmaṉṉa-

⟨4⟩ vaṟkup [pārā]ḻi cūḻnticaiparikku[p pa]ntipaṇṭaitta

⟨5⟩ nīrāḻi [veḻag]kaṇirāṭu māmaṭu niṉṟa koṟṟap perāḻi

⟨6⟩ veṟpivaṉ c[e]ṅkol naṭakkum peruvaḻiye [||*]

⟨SIIv12p0i0128⟩ No. 128. (A.R. No. 418 of 1922). VAILŪR, WANDIWASH TALUK, NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT. ON A ROCK ABOVE A NATURAL RESERVOIR TO THE SOUTH OF THE VILLAGE.

This inscription consists of 5 Tamil verses addressed to Sakalabhuvanachakravarttin Kōpperuñjiṅgadēva, surnamed Aḻagiyaśīyaṉ who is said, in the preliminary prose passage, to have defeated the Chōḷa king at Teḷḷāṟu and to have taken possession of his country after depriving his adversary of all his royal insignia and imprisoning him with his ministers. In the body of the record, Kōpperuñjiṅgadēva is called Avaninārāyaṇa, patron of Tamil, Kāḍava, Toṇḍaimaṉṉavaṉ, Nṛipatuṅga, Tribhuvanatti-Rājākkaḷ-Tambirāṉ, Mallaivēndaṉ, etc. The verses extol his prowess, fame, victory over the Chōḷas, Pāṇḍyas and the Kannaḍas and his abiding devotion to the god at Chidambaram.

Teḷḷāṟu may be identified with the village of the same name in the Wandiwash taluk of the North Arcot district. In one record, 1this village is included in Siṁhaporuda-vaḷanāḍu (i.e.,) the Vaḷanāḍu where Siṁha, probably Kōpperuñjiṅga, fought.

Published in Epigraphia Indica, Vol. XXIII, pp. 180-81.

⟨SIIv12p0i0129⟩ No. 129. (A.R. No. 229 of 1925). ĀKKŪR, MAYAVARAM TALUK, TANJORE DISTRICT. ON THE EAST SIDE OF THE BASE OF THE MAṆḌAPA IN FRONT OF THE TĀNTŌ ṞĪŚVARA TEMPLE.

This inscription states that Kōpperuñjiṅgadēva who is called Aḻagiya-Pallavar alias Vīrapratāpar, after imprisoning the Hoysaḷas and levying tribute from the Pāṇḍyas, proceeded to the Chōḷa country along the southern bank of the Kāvērī. Proceeding due east, he worshipped at all the sacred shrines, repaired temples and remitted all the taxes on temple lands. While camping during this march at a village, probably Ākkūr itself, in Jayaṅgoṇḍaśōḻa-vaḷanāḍu, he found that the tenants had ‘migrated as far as the Ganges’ leaving the lands waste. Sympathising with their position, he remitted the arrears of taxes due from them, restored their original holdings and invited the emigrants to settle on their original lands.

The present inscription is probably connected with No. 124 above. Since the defeat of the Hoysaḷas is also referred to here, this record may be assigned to Kōpperuñjiṅga 1. The defeat of the Pāṇḍyas claimed in this record could not have taken place after the accession of the powerful Pāṇḍya sovereign Jaṭāvarman Sundara-Pāṇḍya I in A.D. 1251.

It may be pointed out here that Kōpperuñjiṅga's fortifications built on the north bank of the river Kāvērī against his enemies the Hoysaḷas are referred to in a record from Tiruveṇkāḍu. 2 ⟨Page 65⟩

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] sa[ka]labhu vaṉacakra vattikaḷ śrī kopperuñciṅkatevar (kkula)

⟨2⟩ [a]ḻakiyapallavar[ā]ṉa virapra tāpar p[o]caḷarkaḷaiyum [ci]ṟaikoṇṭaruḷip pāṇṭi-

⟨3⟩ ya[r]kaḷait tiṟaikoṇṭa[ruḷi] miṇṭu [e]ḻuntaruḷic coḻamaṇṭalam pātta[ruḷi]k kāveriāṟ-

⟨4⟩ ṟukkut teṉkarai[ye] kiḻakkunokki [eḻu]ntaru[ḷi] tiruppati[ka](ḷ)ḷellām ku[m]piṭṭaruḷi teva-

⟨5⟩ tāṉaṅkaḷum tiruviṭaiyāṭṭaṅkaḷum iṟaiyili viṭṭaruḷit tiruppa[ṇi]kaḷ ellām

⟨6⟩ c[eyvi]ttaruḷi jayag[koṇṭa]co[ḻavaḷaṉāṭṭu] brahmadē ••••• le eḻun taruḷi[p pu]-

⟨7⟩ kun[ta]ruḷi immaṇṭala[m] paṟṟaṭaitta ivarkaḷ nāṭu ceytapa[ṭi]• pāllā•• [l]e aḻintu kiṭanta paṭiyai[y]-

⟨8⟩ kkaṇṭaruḷi immaṇṭalattukku neṭuṅkoṭi kācu cikai [iḻan]taruḷi ināṭṭu[kku] irupattu nālukoṭi kācu

⟨9⟩ cikai iḻantaruḷi neṭuṅkālag kiṭanta [ku]ṟaikaḷai veṭṭivi[ṭ]ṭaruḷik kāru[ṇya] m paṇṇi aruḷi tecā[n]tirag-

⟨10⟩ kaḷiṟ[p]oṉa ivarkaḷ tantām ūrkaḷu[m] kāṇikaḷum maṉaika[ḷu]m peṟukave[ṉṟu] tiru vuḷḷamāṉapa[ṭi]yā-

⟨11⟩ le k[e]ṅkai pariyantamākap poṉa jaṉaṅkaḷ nerākap pukuntu tantām ūrkaḷum kāṇikaḷu-

⟨12⟩ m peṟṟu oru kuṟaikaḷ aṟa irukkumpaṭi ceytaruḷiṉār aḻakiyapallavarā[ṉa] virapra tāpar [|*] ip-

⟨13⟩ paṭiy[e] rakṣi ttaruḷa veṇum [||*]

⟨SIIv12p0i0130⟩ No. 130. (A.R. No. 187 of 1932-33). TIRUKKAḺUKKUṈṞAM, CHINGLEPUT TALUK AND DISTRICT. IN THE GŌPURA (RIGHT SIDE) LEADING TO THE SECOND PRĀKĀRA OF THE BHAKTAVATSALĒŚVARA TEMPLE.

This is a fragmentary verse inscription identical with the first verse in No. 125 above from Atti in praise of Pallavāṇḍār alias Kāḍavarāyar, (the son of) Ēḻiśaimōgaṉ Āḷappiṟandāṉ of Kūḍal.

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⟨1⟩ •• śrī kūṭal eḻicaimokaṉ āḷappiṟantāṉā•••••

⟨2⟩ •• ṇṭa pallavāṇṭārāṉa kāṭavarāyar•••••

⟨3⟩ •• vitāmpeṟat tāḷvaṇaṅkiy ceṅkolvaḷai•••••

⟨4⟩ •• [g]kerukamaṉṉa pallavaṉ kāṭavaṉ pārmuḻutāḷ[e]•••••

⟨5⟩ •• ṉṉar pukalkoṇṭavark kivar poṉmakuṭattā••••• ⟨Page 66⟩ KOPPERUNJINGADEVA II.

⟨SIIv12p0i0131⟩ No. 131. (A.R. No. 69 of 1918). VṚIDDHĀCHALAM, VRIDDHACHALAM TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT. IN THE SECOND GŌPURA (RIGHT OF ENTRANCE) OF THE VṚIDDHAGIRĪŚVARA TEMPLE.

This inscription records a provision made in the 2nd year of Sakalabhuvanachchakravarttigaḷ Kōpperuñjiñgadēva for burning a perpetual lamp before the god at Tirumudukuṉṟam in Paruvūr-kūṟṟam, a subdivision of Mēṟkā-nāḍu Iruṅgōḷappāḍi-nāḍu situated in Virudarājabhayaṅkara-vaḷanāḍu, by Aḍaippu Tirukkaṟtuṟai-Uḍaiyān Kuṉṟamuttaraiyan, son of Neṟkuppai-Nāḍāḻvāṉ Guṇamuḍaiyān, one of the Paḷḷis having the hereditary right of watchmanship in the temple.

The initial date of this chief is fixed in A.D. 1243 1by a record from Conjeevaram 2which equates the Śaka year 1182 (A.D. 1260) with his 18th year. The astronomical details given in the record correspond to A.D. 1244, November 13, Sunday. The chief may, therefore, be identified with Kōpperuñjiṅgadēva II.

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] sakalabhu vaṉaccakravatti kaḷ śrī kopperuñciṅkateva-

⟨2⟩ ṟku yāṇṭu 2- āvatu vṛścika nāyaṟṟu aparapakṣa ttu trayōdaśi-

⟨3⟩ yum nāyaṟṟukkiḻamaiyum peṟṟa aśvati nāḷ vaṭakarai virutarājabhaya-

⟨4⟩ ṅkaravaḷanāṭṭu meṟkānāṭṭu iruṅkoḷappāṭināṭṭup paru-

⟨5⟩ vūṟkūṟṟattu uṭaiyār tirumutukuṉṟamuṭaiya nāyaṉāṟku innāya-

⟨6⟩ ṉārkoyil kāval(k)kāṇiuṭaiya paḷḷikaḷil neṟkuppai-

⟨7⟩ nāṭāḻvān kuṇamuṭaiyān makaṉ aṭaippu tirukkaṟtuṟai

⟨8⟩ uṭaiyān kuṉṟamuttaraiyan innāyaṉārkku vaitta tiru-

⟨9⟩ nuntāviḷak koṉṟukku viṭṭa āṭu 96 itil innāyaṉār

⟨10⟩ maṉṟāṭikkuṭimakkaḷil nampa[k*]k[o*]n periyānkuṉṟaṉ poṉ-

⟨11⟩ ṉaruḷāḷakkon kaikkoṇṭa āṭu 48- kku viḷakku araiyum

⟨12⟩ [pāṭi]kāṭān kaikkoṇṭa āṭu 48- kku viḷakku araiyum ā-

⟨13⟩ ka āṭu toṇṉūṟṟāṟum innāḷ mutal kaikkoṇṭu nāḷo-

⟨14⟩ ṉṟukku tevāṣriyaṉ nāḻiyāl uḻakku ney aḷakkakkaṭavom i-

⟨15⟩ vviruvom [|*] itu candrādityavat [|*] patmāhēśvara rakṣai [||*]

⟨SIIv12p0i0132⟩ No. 132. (A.R. No. 411 of 1918). TIRUPPAṄGŪR, SHIYALI TALUK, TANJORE DISTRICT. ON THE EAST WALL OF THE FIRST PRĀKĀRA IN THE ŚIVALŌKANĀTHASVĀMIN TEMPLE.

The subjoined record is also dated in the 2nd year of Sakalabhuvanachakravartin Kōpperuñjiṅgadēva. It registers a gift of land, after purchase, from a certain Ārāvamudu-Bhaṭṭaṉ by Śīyārūrdēvaṉ Ādichchadēvaṉ of Kuṟuchchi in Kiḷiyūr-nāḍu, a subdivision of Pāṇḍikulāśaṉi-vaḷanāḍu for the early morning service, sacred bath on Saturdays, unguents, garlands and offerings to the god Śivalōkamuḍaiya-Nāyaṉār at Tiruppuṉgūr in Tiruvāli-nāḍu, a subdivision of Rājādhirāja-vaḷanāḍu.

The astronomical details given in the record correspond to A.D. 1245, February 16, Thursday, with the emendation ba. 4 for ba. 14.

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] cakalapuvaṉacakkaravattikaḷ śrīkopperuñciṅkatevar[k*]ku yāṇṭu 2- vatu [ku]mpa nāyaṟṟu

⟨2⟩ aparapakṣa ttu caturtdha(da) ciyum viyāḻakkiḻamaiyum peṟṟa attat[tu*]nāḷ irājādhi rājavaḷanāṭṭut tiru-

⟨3⟩ vālināṭṭut tiruppuṉkūr uṭaiyār civalokamuṭaiyanāyaṉār koyili[l*] āticaṇṭeśva ra tevarkaṉmikaḷu- ⟨Page 67⟩ kku pāṇṭikulācaṉivaḷanāṭṭuk kiḷiyūrnāṭṭu kuṟucciyuṭaiyāṉ ciyārurtevaṉ āticcateva neṉ (teṉa) [|*] iṉṉāyanār-

⟨5⟩ kku tiruppaḷḷiyeḻuccic caṉittirumañcaṉam āṭiaruḷavum tirumeṟppūccut tiruppaḷḷit tāmattukkum tiruvamutupaṭikku[m] u[ṭai]-

⟨6⟩ yārkku tiruvamutuarici ṉānāḻikkum nācciyārkku tiruvamutarici [iru]nāḻikkum ākat tiru amutarici aṟunāḻikkum kaṟiviñcaṉat[tukku]-

⟨7⟩ m tiruviḷakku eṇṇaikkum uṭalākavum iccoṟu ikkālattu tevai aṟuttārkku jivaṉta [m]āka kaṭavatākavum [||*] tiruppaḷḷiyeḻu[ccippu]-

⟨8⟩ ṟamāka nāṉ nirvārktuk kuṭutta nilamāvatu [|*] iṉnāyaṉār tevatāṉam iṉṉāṭṭu kaḻumala vāy āṟṟukku vaṭakkuppaṭṭa civalokanāyakamag•••

⟨9⟩ eṉ kā(ṇ)ṇiyāṉa śrīmaṅkali vaṭakūṟu nilamkha4 nta- m ārāvamutupaṭṭaṉ pakkal vilaikoṇṭu aṉupavittu varukiṟa teṉkaṇ•••

⟨10⟩ licciṉṉamum••• [maṉaiyil] muṉṟopāti meṟkkaṭaya 1

⟨11⟩ cātaṉa[ppaṭi]ye tirunāmattukkāṇiyāka kūṭṭikko••••

⟨12⟩ ḷḷakkaṭavatā[kavum] śrīmaṅkali nilattu turavilu maccikkuḻiyilum••••• nikki niṉ••••

⟨13⟩ la• cātaṉappaṭi muṉṟopātiyum i[p*]paṭi eṉ cātaṉappaṭiye tirunāmattukkāṇiyāka tirumāḷikaiyil kalveṭ[ṭi] nirvārttuk kuṭut•••

⟨14⟩ kaṉ[m]mikaḷukku kuṟucciuṭaiyār ciyārurtevaṉ āticcatevaṉeṉ āka eḻuttu [||*]

⟨SIIv12p0i0133⟩ No. 133. (A.R. No. 409 of 1921). TIRUVADI, CUDDALORE TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT. ON THE INNER WALL OF THE SECOND GŌPURA (RIGHT OF ENTRANCE) IN THE TIRUVĪRAṬṬĀNĒŚVARA TEMPLE.

This record is also dated in the 2nd year of the chief. It registers a gift of 32 cows and a bull by Koṟṟamāṉ Malaiyaṉ Paḻandiyarāyaṉ of Pālaiyūr alias Rājēndraśōḻanallūr in Pālaiyūr-nāḍu, a subdivision of Ūṟṟukkāṭṭu-kōṭṭam which was a district in Jayaṅgoṇḍaśōḻa-vaḷanāḍu, for burning a perpetual lamp in the temple of Tiruvīraṭṭānamuḍaiya-Nāyaṉār at Tiruvadigai.

The village Pālaiyūr may be identified with Pālūr in the Chingleput taluk.

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⟨1⟩ cakalapuvaṉaccak[ka*]ravattikaḷ śrīko-

⟨2⟩ pperuñciṅkatevaṟku yāṇṭu 2- va-

⟨3⟩ tu tiruvatikai uṭaiyār tiruviraṭṭā-

⟨4⟩ ṉamuṭaiya nāyaṉāṟku ivvāṇṭai mā-

⟨5⟩ ci mātattu tirununtāviḷakkukku ceya-

⟨6⟩ ṅkoṇṭacoḻavaḷanāṭṭu ūṟṟu-

⟨7⟩ [k*]kāṭṭu[k*]koṭṭattu pālaiyūrnāṭṭu pā-

⟨8⟩ laiyūrāṉa irācentiracoḻanallū-

⟨9⟩ r koṟṟamāṉ malaiyaṉ paḻantiyarā-

⟨10⟩ yaṉ innāyaṉāṟkut tirunuṉtāviḷak-

⟨11⟩ koṉṟukku viṭṭa pacu 32- m iṣapam

⟨12⟩ 1- m āka uru 33- m viṭṭatu [||*] ⟨Page 68⟩

⟨SIIv12p0i0134⟩ No. 134. (A.R. No. 62 of 1919). MUNNŪR, TINDIVANAM TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT. ON THE EAST WALL OF THE MAṆḌAPA IN FRONT OF THE CENTRAL SHRINE IN THE ĀḌAVALLĒŚVARA TEMPLE.

In this record which is dated in the 3rd year, Aḻagiyapallavaṉ Vīrarāyaṉ alias Kachchiyarāyaṉ confirms the gifts of the dēvadāna villages and lands granted as maḍappuṟam, by Aiyyadēvar, for worship and repairs, to the temple of Āḍavalla-Nāyaṉār at Muññūr alias Rājanārāyaṇa-chaturvēdimaṅgalam.

Aiyyadēvar mentioned here seems to refer to Kōpperuñjiṅga's father Maṇavāḷapperumāḷ, also known as Aḻagiyapallavaṉ alias Kāḍavarāyaṉ and mentioned in a record from the same village 1dated in the 33rd year of Tribhuvanavīradēva.

Aḻagiyapallavaṉ Vīrarāyaṉ alias Kachchiyarāyaṉ was probably an officer under Kōpperuñjiṅga, if not the latter's brother. His name suggests that he was the son of Aḻagiyapallavaṉ i.e., Kōpperuñjiṅgadēva (I).

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] cakalapuvaṉaccakkaravattikaḷ śrīkopperuñciṅkatevarkku yāṇṭu

⟨2⟩ 3- vatu muññūṟāṉa irācanārāyaṇaccaturvē timaṅkalattu uṭaiyār ā-

⟨3⟩ ṭavallanāyaṉārkku aiyyatevar kalveṭṭi viṭṭapaṭiye innāyaṉār

⟨4⟩ tevatāṉamāṉa ūrkaḷum maṭappuṟamum tirumaṭaiviḷākattut taṟiyiṟai

⟨5⟩ taṭṭārppāṭṭamuñ cekkukkaṭamaiyum vāṇiyarperkkaṭamaiyun tara-

⟨6⟩ kupāṭṭamum maṟṟum aṉaittāyaṅkaḷum uṭpaṭa pūcaikkun tiruppaṇik-

⟨7⟩ ku muṭalāka viṭṭeṉ aḻakiyapallavaṉ virarāyaṉāṉ kacciyarāyaṉeṉ [||*]

⟨SIIv12p0i0135⟩ No. 135. (A.R. No. 488 of 1921). TIRUVEṆṆAINALLŪR, TIRUKKOYILUR TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT. ON THE WEST WALL OF THE CENTRAL SHRINE IN THE VAIKUṆṬHA-PERUMĀḶ TEMPLE.

A grant of 475 kuḻi of garden land is recorded in this inscription, dated in the 3rd year, by Tiruchchiṟṟambalamuḍaiyāṉ Sundarapāṇḍya-Brahmārāyaṉ of Śōḻakulāntaka-chaturvēdimaṅgalam, a brahmadēya in Pāgaṉūr-kūṟṟam, a subdivision of Pāṇḍimaṇḍalam, for offerings to the god Vaikuṇṭhatt-Emberumāṉ at Tiruveṇṇainallūr, a brahmadēya in Tirumuṉaippāḍi Tiruveṇṇainallūr-nāḍu in Rājarāja-vaḷanāḍu, on the 7th day of the festival in the months of Āṉi (May-June) and Puraṭṭādi (August-September).

The village Śōḻakulāntaka-chaturvēdimaṅgalam is evidently called so after the surname Śōḻāntaka 2or Śōḻakulāntaka of the early Pāṇḍya king Vīra-Pāṇḍya or Jaṭāvarman Śrīvallabha (Ep. Rep. for 1910, para. 31). This village may be identified with Teṉkarai in the Nilakkottai taluk of the Madura district.

The inscription mentions also a grain measure called Adigaināyakaṉ-marakkāl, probably named after the deity at Tiruvadigai.

The astronomical details cited in the record are not regular.

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⟨1⟩ [sva]sti śrī [||*] sakalabhu vaṉaccakravatti kaḷ śrī kopperuñciṅkatevar[k*]ku yāṇṭu 3- vatu 3 tulānāyaṟṟu pūrvapakṣa ttu navami yum budha ṉkiḻamaiyum peṟṟa hasta ttu nāḷ rājarāja vaḷanāṭṭut tirumuṉaippāṭit tiruveṇṇainallūrnāṭṭu brahmadēya nti ruveṇṇai nallūr śrīvaikuṇṭattemperumāṉukkut tiruvāṉit (tiruvāṉit) tiru- ⟨Page 69⟩

⟨2⟩ [nāḷu]kkum puraṭṭātit tirunāḷaikkum eḻānti runāḷ ciṟukālaip perumāḷeḻunta ruḷip pukunta ruḷiṉavāṟe amutupaṭikkum kaṟiamutuḷḷiṭṭa vyañjana ṅkaḷukkum śrīpāṇṭi maṇḍa lattup pā[ka]ṉūrkkūṟṟattu brahmadē yañ coḻakulāntakaccaturvēdi maṅkalattu mutaṟ cerit tiruve[ḷḷa]ṟai kāśyapantriya-

⟨3⟩ mba kaṉ] tirucciṟṟampalamuṭaiyāṉ sundarapā ṇṭiyabrahmā rāyaṉeṉ ivvemperu māṉukku nāṉ koṇṭu tirunāmattukkāṇiyāka viṭṭa toṭṭa nilamāvatu [|*] ivvūr śrīvāṉavaṉ [mātevivati]kku kiḻakku aracūrkālukku vaṭakku kāliyūr āṉaiyaḻa-

⟨4⟩ •• ḷḷiṭṭār toṭṭattukku kiḻakku kirāmattār ūṟukālukkut teṟku i[v]vemperumā nti ruviṭaiyāṭṭattukku meṟku iṉṉāṉkellaikkuṭpaṭṭa toṭṭam ivūr catirakkolāl udēdaśa mme kuḻi 475 ikkuḻi nāṉūṟṟeḻupattaiñcu nti runāmattukkāṇiyāka

⟨5⟩ k[oṇṭu] iṉṉilattil svāmibhōga g koṇṭu ivūr kāliyūr kaṭalaṭaittaperumāḷāṉa aḻakiyamaṇavāḷatācaṉ••• nāḷaikku atikaināyakaṉ marakkālāle kala ariciyu mitaṟku veṇṭug kaṟiyamu tuḷḷiṭṭa vyañjana mu miṉṉilaṅkoṇṭu

⟨6⟩ nivanta m] • celuttakkaṭavaṉāka iṉṉila nti runāmattukkāṇiyākak koṇṭu viṭṭu śilālēkhai pa[ṇṇikkuṭutteṉ] [||*]

⟨SIIv12p0i0136⟩ No. 136. (A.R. No. 53 of 1930-31). TIRUKKŌḌIKĀVAL, KUMBAKONAM TALUK, TANJORE DISTRICT. ON THE EAST WALL OF THE FIRST PRĀKĀRA (OUTSIDE) OF THE TIRUKKŌḌĪŚVARA TEMPLE.

This inscription, dated in the 3rd year, registers a gift of 1(1/2) mā of land as tirunāmattukkāṇi to the god at Tirukkōḍikā in Nallāṟṟūr-nāḍu, a subdivision of Virudarājabhayaṅkara-vaḷanāḍu by Pākkamuḍaiyāṉ Pañchaṉ Uḍaiyapiḷḷai of Iḷamaṅgalam in Jayaṅgoṇḍaśōḻa-maṇḍalam alias Śiṅgapura-nāḍu, after purchasing it from Kautsaṉ Tribhuvanasundaraṉ Dekkaṇāmūtti-Bhaṭṭaṉ who had the Śaivāchārya-right in the temple and his younger brother Kaṟpagar alias Tribhuvanasundara-Bhaṭṭaṉ.

The details of date given in the inscription correspond to A.D. 1244, May 17, Tuesday, which, however, did not fall in the 3rd year of the chief. The details are also regular for A.D. 1234, May 9, Tuesday which would fall in the reign of the elder chief.

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] cakalapuvaṉa[c*]cakkaravattikaḷ śrīkopperuñciṅkatevarkku yāṇṭu 3- ṟāvatu iṣabha nāyaṟṟu pūrva pakṣattu daśami miyum cevvāykkiḻamaiyum peṟṟa attattunāḷ virutarāca payaṅkaravaḷanāṭṭu

⟨2⟩ nallāṟṟūrnāṭṭu uṭaiyār tirukkoṭikāvuṭaiyār koyilil āticaṇṭeśva ratevar kaṉmikaḷukku jayaṅkoṇṭacoḻamaṇṭalamāṉa ciṅkapuranāṭṭu iḷamaṅkalattuk kāṇiyuṭaiya pāk-

⟨3⟩ kamuṭaiyāṉ pañcaṉ uṭaiyapiḷḷaiyeṉ iṉṉāyaṉārkku tirunāmattukkāṇiyāka nirvārttuk kuṭutta nilattukku piramāṇaicaivutiṭṭuk kuṭutta paricāvatu [|*] iṉṉāyaṉār tevatāṉam tirukkoṭi[k*]kā-

⟨4⟩ k kiḻaittiruvīti vālnīḷattu ikkoyil caivācāriyam kautsa ṉ tiripuvaṉacuntaraṉ tekkaṇāmuttipaṭṭaṉum ivaṉtampi kaṟpakarāṉa tiripuvaṉacuntarapaṭṭaṉum pakkal vilai koṇṭuṭaiyeṉāy eṉ-

⟨5⟩ ṉutāyirunta nilamāy iṉṉāyaṉārkku tirunāmattukkāṇiyākak kuṭut[ta*] nilattukkuk kiḻpāṟ kellai tiṉacintāmaṇipurattu viyāpārikaḷ nilattukku meṟkkum teṉpāṟkellai ālā-

⟨6⟩ lacuntaraṉ tirunantavaṉattukku vaṭakkum melpāṟkellai tiruvīti vālnīḷattukkuk kiḻakkum vaṭa pāṟkellai āṉāṅkūruṭaiyāṉ kollai nilattukkuk teṟkku[m*] iṉṉāṉkellaiyuḷ naṭuvu- ⟨Page 70⟩

⟨7⟩ paṭṭa mikutikkuṟai vuṭpaṭa nilam iṉilam orumāvaraiyum tirunāmattukkāṇiyāka nīrvārt tuk kuṭutteṉ aticaṇṭeśva ratevakaṉmikaḷukku pākkamuṭaiyāṉ pañcaṉ uṭaiya piḷḷaiyeṉ iṉṉi-

⟨8⟩ lattu melnokkiṉa maramum kiḻṉokkiṉa kiṇaṟum potuvum potāriyum epperpaṭṭa uri maika ḷakappa(ṭ)ṭa tiruṉāmattukkāṇi[yākak] kuṭutteṉ [|*] iṉṉilattukku ikkoyil tāṉattār veṇṭiṉapote

⟨9⟩ piramāṇam paṇṇikkuṭukka kaṭaveṉākavum kuṭuttileṉākil ippiramāṇaicaivutiṭṭe piramāṇa māvatākavum ippaṭi cammatittu piramāṇaicaivutiṭṭuk kuṭutteṉ uṭaiyār tirukkoṭi kāvuṭaiyārkoyil āti-

⟨10⟩ caṇṭeśva ratevakaṉmikaḷukku pākkamuṭaiyāṉ pañcaṉ uṭaiyapiḷḷaiyeṉ [|*] itu pākkamuṭai yāṉ pañcaṉ uṭaiyapiḷḷai sajñai yāṉamaikku ivar marumakaṉ kuḻalūruṭaiyāṉ eḻuttu [|*] ippaṭi aṟiveṉ ṉittavinota-

⟨11⟩ vaḷanāṭṭu āvūrkūṟṟattu neṭuvāyiluṭaiyāṉ civalokaṉ āḷavaṉtāṉen |||-

⟨SIIv12p0i0137⟩ No. 137. (A.R. No. 113 of 1934-35). ARAKAṆḌANALLŪR, TIRUKKOYILUR TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT. ON THE SOUTH WALL OF THE MAṆḌAPA IN FRONT OF THE CENTRAL SHRINE IN THE OPPILĀMAṆĪŚVARA TEMPLE.

This inscription of the 3rd year registers the gift of the village Śembiyaṉmādēvi in Meykuṉṟā-nāḍu ‘on the southern bank of the Peṇṇai’, in his nāḍu, by Chōḷatuṅgap-Pallavaraiyaṉ Śrīpāladēvaṉ Marundāḻvārnāyaṉ alias Rājarāja-Śrīpālaṉ of Pērāyil who had his paṟṟu in Kaṇṇuḍainallūr, for early morning service, worship, offerings, lamps etc., in the temple of Opporuvarumillāda-Nāyanār at Tiruvaṟaiyaṇinallūr.

The details of date given in the inscription correspond to A.D. 1246, March 9, Friday.

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] cakalapuvaṉacca[k*]karavattikaḷ śrīkopperuñciṅkateva[r*]kku yāṇṭu 3-

⟨2⟩ āvatu minanāyaṟṟu aparapakṣattu pañcamiyum veḷḷi[k*]kiḻamaiyum peṟṟa aniḻattu nā-

⟨3⟩ ḷ tiruvaṟaiyaṇinallūr uṭaiyār opporuvarumillātanāyanāṟku kaṇṇuṭai-

⟨4⟩ nallūṟ paṟṟuṭaiya perāyiluṭaiyāṉ coḷatuṅkappallavaraiyaṉ ci[p]ā-

⟨5⟩ latevaṉ maruntāḻvārnāyaṉāna irā[ca*]rācaccipālaṉeṉ peṇṇait teṉkarai mey-

⟨6⟩ kuṉṟānāṭṭu eṉnāṭṭil cempiyaṉmātevi nāṟpāṟkellaik kuḷppaṭṭa nañcai puñcai

⟨7⟩ taṟiiṟai taṭṭārppāṭṭamum kācāyaṅkaḷ uḷpaṭa melnokkina maramum kiḻnokkina kiṇa-

⟨8⟩ ṟum maṟṟu[m*] nāṉ koḷḷa[k*]kaṭava kaṭamai kuṭimai evattevai eppeṟpaṭṭanavu[m*] iṉ nāyanārkku

⟨9⟩ ciṟukālaiccanti tirumantira[p*]ponakattukkum nittanimantattukkum amutupaṭikkum tirumeṟ pūccum

⟨10⟩ tirupparicaṭṭamum tiruviḷakkum uḷpaṭṭa veñcanattukkum maṟṟum eppeṟpaṭṭanattukkum ivūr

⟨11⟩ viṭṭu cantirātittavaraiyum cellakkaṭavatāka viṭṭuk kalveṭṭik kuṭutten coḷatu-

⟨12⟩ ṅkappallavaraiyan cipālatevan maruntāḻvārnāyanāṉa irā[ca*]rāca cipālaneṉ [|*] i-

⟨13⟩ tu māṟuvāṉ keṅkaiiṭai kumariṭai kurālpacuk koṉṟāṉ pāvag koḷvāṉ [|*]

⟨14⟩ itu panmāhēśvara rakṣaiḥ— ⟨Page 71⟩

⟨SIIv12p0i0138⟩ No. 138. (A.R. No. 221 of 1934-35). KŌṬṬA-MARUDŪR, TIRUKKOYILUR TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT. ON A ROCK NEAR TAṆḌARIKKARAI.

In this record, also of the 3rd year, the chief is called Aḻagiya-Pallavaṉ Kōpperuñjiṅgadēva i.e., Kōpperuñjiṅgadēva, son of Aḻagiya-Pallavaṉ. The inscription states that the tank called ‘Puttēri’ in Muḍigoṇḍaśōḻach-chaturvēdimaṅgalam was the gift of Nāchchiyāṇḍār, wife of Nāṭṭupperumāḷ and mother of Akaḷaṅka-Nāḍāḻvāṉ.

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] sa kalapuvaṉaccakkaravatti-

⟨2⟩ kaḷ śrīaḻakiyapallavaṉ kopperuñcig-

⟨3⟩ katevaṟku yāṇṭu 3- vatu śrīmuṭikoṇṭa-

⟨4⟩ coḻaccaturvēdi maṅkalat(ttā)tup put teri

⟨5⟩ akaḷaṅkaṉāṭāḻvā ṉammai ṉā-

⟨6⟩ ṭṭupperumāḷ nampirāṭṭiyār

⟨7⟩ ṉācciyāṇṭār ceyta

⟨8⟩ taṉmam [||*]

⟨SIIv12p0i0139⟩ No. 139. (A.R. No. 228 of 1904). ŚIṄGAVARAM, GINGEE TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT. ON THE LEFT WING-STONE AT THE ENTRANCE INTO THE CENTRAL SHRINE IN THE RAṄGANĀTHA TEMPLE.

The title ‘Āvaniāḷappiṟandāṉ’ is added in the present inscription dated in the 4th year, to the name Sakalabhuvanachakravarttigaḷ Kōpperuñjiṅga. The inscription registers a gift of 30 cows for a perpetual lamp in the temple of Tiruppaṉṟikuṉṟu-Emberumāṉ by Iḷaiyaperumāḷ Vattarāyar son of Tavañcheydāṉ Vattarāyaṉ of Karuvili.

The astronomical details given in the record correspond to A.D. 1246, August 26, Sunday; 53; the nakshatra Tiruvōṇam had, however, ended the previous day and ‘Śravishṭhā’ was current till ·75 on this day.

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] sakalabhu[va] ṉacakravatti kaḷ śrī

⟨2⟩ avaniāḷappiṟantāṉ kopperuñ[cig*]kadē-

⟨3⟩ va[r]kku yāṇṭu 4- āvatu si[ṁha] nāyaṟṟu pūrva pa-

⟨4⟩ kṣattu nāyaṟṟu[k*]kiḻamai trayōdaśi yum tiruvo-

⟨5⟩ ṇamum peṟṟa nāḷ tiruppaṉṟikuṉṟu emperumā-

⟨6⟩ ṉukku karuviliuṭ[ai]yāṉ tavañceytāṉ

⟨7⟩ vattarāyaṉ ma[ka*]ṉ āṉa yiḷaiyaperumāḷāṉa vattarāyar vaitta tiru-

⟨8⟩ ṉuntāviḷakku 1- ṉṟukku viṭṭa cāvāmuvāp perumpacu 30

⟨9⟩ ippacu muppatum kaikkoṇṭom ikkoyili[l*] vai-

⟨10⟩ kāna[sa*]sūtrattu bhārga vaṉ āṇṭavaṉ paṉṟiāḻvā-

⟨11⟩ ṉum bhārga vaṉ ātittavilli paṉṟiāḻvā-

⟨12⟩ ṉ uḷḷiṭṭārom [|*][ ātrē] yaṉ aḻakiyamaṇa[vāḷaṉ*] [eḻuttu] [|*]

⟨13⟩ kāṅkayapperaiyaṉ eḻuttu [|*]

⟨14⟩ aṅkarāyaṉ eḻuttu [|*] muttaḷavaraiyaṉ eḻuttu [|*]

⟨15⟩ vikkira[ma*]pāṇṭiyapperaiyaṉ eḻuttu [|*] ⟨Page 72⟩

⟨16⟩ paḷḷikkaṭṭuc cetirāyaṉ eḻuttu [|*]

⟨17⟩ villavarāyaṉ eḻuttu [|*] campūrāyapperaiyaṉ eḻuttu [|*]

⟨18⟩ vāḷavarāyapperaiyaṉ eḻuttu ௳

⟨19⟩ kaṇiccipākkamuṭaiyāṉ eḻuttu ௳ nāṭṭavar paṇiyā[l]

⟨20⟩ irukaimativāraṇa irā[ca*]rā[ca*]ppiramarāyaṉ eḻuttu [||*]

⟨SIIv12p0i0140⟩ No. 140. (A.R. No. 449 of 1921). TIRUVEṆṆAINALLŪR, TIRUKKOYILUR TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT. ON THE WEST WALL OF THE GŌPURA IN THE KṚIPĀPURĪŚVARA TEMPLE.

This inscription, dated in the 4th year, records the gift of a cow to the temple of Āṭkoṇḍadēva at Tiruveṇṇainallūr, a brahmadēya in Tirumuṉaippāḍi Tiruveṇṇainallūrnāḍu, a subdivision of Rājarāja-vaḷanāḍu, by Suppiramaṇṇiyaṉ, son of Tirumaḻapāḍi, an agambaḍiyār living at Araśūr. Araśūr may be identified with the village of the same name in the Tirukkoyilur taluk.

According to the astronomical details given, the date of the record is A.D. 1247, January 19, Saturday.

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] sa kalapuvanaccakkaravattikaḷ ciy kop[peru]1ñciṅkatevarkku yāṇṭu 4- vatu makara nāyaṟṟu pūrva pakkattu tiriyodaśi yum caṉikkiḻamaiyum peṟṟa tiruvātiraināḷ rāja-

⟨2⟩ rāja vaḷanāṭṭut tirumuṉaippāṭit tiruveṇṇainallūrnāṭṭu piramateyam tiruveṇṇainal lūr uṭaiyār āṭkoṇṭatevarkku aracūril irukkum a-

⟨3⟩ kampaṭiyāril tirumaḻapāṭi makaṉ cuppiramaṇṇiyaṉ iṉṉāyaṉārkku uṭainilaiccuraviyāka āṭi aruḷa viṭṭa pacu- 1 ippacu oṉṟu cantirātittavarai celva[tu*] [||*]

⟨SIIv12p0i0141⟩ No. 141. (A.R. No. 35 of 1922). TIRUVĀMĀTTŪR, VILLUPURAM TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT. ON THE NORTH WALL OF THE KITCHEN IN THE ABHIRĀMĒŚVARA TEMPLE.

This inscription is also dated in the 4th year and it records a gift of 4 mā of land at Avviyūr in Jananātha-chaturvēdimaṅgalam, a brahmadēya village in Paṉaiyūrnāḍu Māvalūr-nāḍu, a subdivision of Rājarāja-vaḷanāḍu, by Uḍaiyār Aṇiyaṉ Mūvēndaraiyaṉ for the maintenance of the maṭha called ‘Āṇḍār Pichchar Piṟaiśūḍi Āṇḍār-tirumaṭha alias Tiruvēḍam Āḻagiyāṉ-tirumaṭha’ which was situated to the north of the temple of Āṭkoṇḍadēvar at Tiruveṇṇainallūr.

The village Avviyūr may be identified with Āviyūr in the Gingee taluk of the South Arcot district.

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] cakalabhu vaṉaccakkaravattikaḷ śrī kopperuñci-

⟨2⟩ ṅkatevaṟku yāṇṭu [n]ālāvatu rājarāja vaḷanāṭṭu tirumuṉai-

⟨3⟩ ppāṭi tiruveṇṇainallūrnāṭṭu brahmad[ēśa] m tiruveṇṇainallūr

⟨4⟩ uṭaiyār āṭkoṇṭatevar koyilukku vaṭakku āṇṭār pi-

⟨5⟩ ccarpiṟaicūṭi āṇṭār tirumaṭamāṉa tiruveṭamaḻakiyāṉ tirumaṭattukku

⟨6⟩ uṭaiyār aṇiyaṉ muventaraiyaṉ rājarāja vaḷanāṭṭu paṉaiyūrnāṭṭu māvalūr-

⟨7⟩ nāṭṭu brahmadēśa m jananātacaturvēdi mag[ka]lattu añcāṅkaṭṭaḷai avviyūr arumoḻiteva- ⟨Page 73⟩

⟨8⟩ vatikkuk kiḻakku kaṅkaikoṇṭacoḻavāykkālukku vaṭakku mutaṟ kaṇṇāṟṟu iraṇṭā-

⟨9⟩ ñ catukkattu [ā]yiravaṉ ceṟu oṉpatarai ikkaṇṇāṟṟu muṉṟāñ catukkattut

⟨10⟩ teṟkaṭaiyac ceṟu muṉṟaraiyum ākac ceṟu 13- ṉāl ciṟu[paḻa] nilam nālumāvum immaṭa-

⟨11⟩ ttukku maṭappuṟamāka āyam pāṭikāval [kiḻ]••• uṭppaṭṭa ā-

⟨12⟩ yaṅka(ḷ)ḷum maṭattukke uṭal[ā]ka cantirātittavarai celvatā[ka*] viṭṭom

⟨13⟩ aṇiyaṉ muventaraiya(ṉ)ṉen [|*] itu māṟuvāṉ keṅkaiiṭai ku-

⟨14⟩ mariiṭai kurāṟppacu konṟāṉ pāvaṅkoḷvāṉ [|*] vallavaraiyaṉ cat-

⟨15⟩ tiyam [|*] itu pa ṉmāhēśvara rakṣai:—

⟨SIIv12p0i0142⟩ No. 142. (A.R. No. 51 of 1922). ON THE WEST WALL OF THE SECOND PRĀKĀRA OF THE SAME TEMPLE.

The title ‘Avaṉiyāḷappiṟandāṉ’ is also found in the present record dated in the 4th year. It states that Aṇiyaṉ Mūvēndaraiyaṉ from whom Kuṉṟameḍuttāṉ Vāṇādhirājaṉ had purchased lands in Kuḷattūr alias Śōḻagaṅganallūr, Koṟṟavilli and Teṉṉavamahādēvī, for providing worship and offerings to the god Subrahmaṇya-Piḷḷaiyār set up in the temple of Aḻagiya-Nāyaṉār at Tiruvāmāttūr by Uḍaiyāṉ Vairādhirājaṉ, remitted certain taxes such as pāḍi-kāval, kāśāyam etc., for the welfare of Kōpperuñjiṅga (dēvar).

Kuḷattūr and Teṉṉavamahādēvī may be identified with the villages of the same name in the Villupuram taluk. Koṟṟavilli seems to have changed its name and is not easily identifiable.

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] sakalabhu vaṉaccakra vattikaḷ avaṉiyāḷappiṟantāṉ kopperuñciṅkadē varkku

⟨2⟩ yāṇṭu 4- vatu nāḷ nūṟṟeṭṭiṉāl aṇiyaṉ muventaraiyaṉeṉ [|*] tiruvāmāttūruṭaiyār

⟨3⟩ aḻakiyanāyaṉār koyilil pātirimarutattūruṭaiyāṉ kuṉṟameṭuttāṉ vāṇādhirā jaṉ uṭai yāṉ vairādhi-

⟨4⟩ rā jaṉ eḻuntaruḷivitta subrahmaṇya ppiḷḷaiyārkku nam pakkal(p) poṉṉiṭṭukkoṇṭa kuḷattūrāṉa coḻakaṅkanallūr nirni-

⟨5⟩ lam patiṉantumāvum tirunanda vaṉattukkuk koṟṟa[vi]lli[yi*]l kollainilam mukkāṇiyum teṉṉavamahādēvi melkoṟṟil [naraciṅkaṉ tākkil]

⟨6⟩ nilam añcumāvum āka nilam irupatu mā[mu]kkāṇikkum oṉṟukāl pāṭikāval kiḻmākkala maṟṟumuḷḷa kācāya nellāya maṉaittāyaṅkaḷum iḻi-

⟨7⟩ ttu dē var tirumeṉikku naṉṟākap pūjaiyun tiruppaṭimāṟṟuñ celuttuvatāka uda kampaṇ ṇikkuṭutteṉ [|*] innilattil nāṟpālellaiyilum tiru-

⟨8⟩ ccūlakkallu nāṭṭit tirumāḷikaiyile kallum veṭṭik koḷvatu || ௳ ippaṭikku ivai muventarayaṉeḻuttu ||௳

⟨SIIv12p0i0143⟩ No. 143. (A.R. No. 52 of 1922). ON THE SAME WALL.

This inscription is engraved in continuation of the previous number and so must be taken as a record of Kōpperuñjiṅgadēva, incised in the same 4th year. It records a gift of 5 mā of land, made tax-free, as tiruviḷakkuppuṟam for lights in the temple of [Subrahmaṇya]-Piḷḷaiyār and in the maṭha of Āṇḍār Tiruvuṇāyakaṉ-maṭha, by Aḻagiyaśīyaṉ Mūvēndarayaṉ, son of Aṇiyaṉ Mūvēndaraiyaṉ mentioned in the previous inscription. ⟨Page 74⟩

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⟨1⟩ ivar makaṉ aḻakiyaciyaṉ muventarayaṉeṉ ippiḷḷaiyārkku tiruviḷakkuppuṟamākak kollai ni-

⟨2⟩ lattum vaṭṭaṅkollaiyil p[o ya]ṭṭiviṭṭa nilam nālumāvum āṇṭār [tiru]vuṇāyakaṉ maṭattukku viḷakkuk[ku] kuḷattūr

⟨3⟩ nattattil viṭṭa perumpaṭi kollainilam oru māvum āka nilam aiñcumāvukkum kaṭamai uḷpaṭa aṉaittāyaṅkaḷum iḻantu kal-

⟨4⟩ veṭṭikkoḷḷac colliviṭṭeṉ aḻikiya[ci]yaṉ muventarayaṉeṉ ivai muventaraya ṉeḻuttu [||*]

⟨SIIv12p0i0144⟩ No. 144. (A.R. No. 97 of 1934-35). VṚIDDHĀCHALAM, VRIDDHACHALAM TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT. ON THE NORTH WALL OF THE KITCHEN IN THE VṚIDDHAGIRĪŚVARA TEMPLE.

This inscription, dated in the 4th year, registers a gift of 96 sheep by Āḷappiṟandāṉ-kōṉ Śuttāḻvāṉ for burning a sacred perpetual lamp before the god at Tirumudukuṉṟam in Paruvūr-kūṟṟam, a subdivision of Mēṟkā-nāḍu Iruṅgōḷappāḍi in Virudarājabhayaṅkara-vaḷanāḍu.

The astronomical details given point to A.D. 1247, August 26, Monday (not Sunday) as the date of the record.

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⟨1⟩ ௳ svasti śrīḥ [||*] sakalabhuvanaccakravatti śrīkopperuñciṅkatevarkku yāṇṭu nālāvatu siṁ hanāyaṟṟu apa[ra]-

⟨2⟩ pakṣattu daśami yum nāyaṟṟukkiḻamaiyum puṇarpūcamum peṟṟa ṉāḷ vaṭakarai virutarāja[bha*] [ya]ṅkara vaḷanāṭṭu meṟkāṉāṭṭu

⟨3⟩ iruṅkoḷappāṭip paruvūrkkūṟṟattu uṭaiyār tirumutukuṉṟamuṭaiya nāyanāṟku āḷappiṟaṉtāṉ koṉ

⟨4⟩ cuttāḻvāṉ vaitta tirununtāviḷakku oṉṟukku tevāciriyaṉkālāl aḷakkum nāḷ oṉṟu kku ney uḻakkāka vanta

⟨5⟩ •••••• ṭavatāka paccaikkoṉ makaṉ kuṉṟakkoṉ kaikkoṇṭa āṭu t[oṇ]ṇū[ṟṟu]āṟu

⟨6⟩ •••••• ttavat paṉmāheśvara rakṣai 1 ௳

⟨SIIv12p0i0145⟩ No. 145. (A.R. No. 114 of 1934-35). ARAKAṆḌANALLŪR, TIRUKKOYILUR TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT. ON THE WEST WALL OF THE MAṆḌAPA IN FRONT OF THE CENTRAL SHRINE IN THE OPPILĀMAṆĪŚVARA TEMPLE.

This record of the 4th year registers the gift of a vessel (kalaśappāṉai) for the sacred bath of the god, by Nallāṟkunallāṉ Kūttan, a Kaikkōḷa of Tirukkōvalūr.

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] cakalapuvanacakkaravattikaḷ śrīkopperuñcig-

⟨2⟩ kateva[r*]kku yāṇṭu 4- vatu tirukkovalūrk kaikko-

⟨3⟩ ḷaṉ nallāṟkunallāṉ kūttaneṉ iṭṭa abhiṣēka kala-

⟨4⟩ cappānai iṭai 42 itu makkaḷ makkaḷ aḻivu corn-

⟨5⟩ tu kuṭu[k]ka[ka*]kaṭavomāka kalveṭṭik kuṭutteṉ itu paṉmāhēśvara ra kṣai [||*] ⟨Page 75⟩

⟨SIIv12p0i0146⟩ No. 146. (A.R. No. 164 of 1918). BRAHMADĒŚAM, VILLUPURAM TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT. ON THE SOUTH WALL OF THE VERANDAH OF THE FIRST PRĀKĀRA IN THE BRAHMAPURĪŚVARA TEMPLE.

This inscription of the 5th year records the gift of 33 cattle including cows, calves and a bull by Nīlagaṅgaṉ Ammūrikundaṉ Śōḻaṅgadēvaṉ of Āmūr for burning a perpetual lamp in the temple of Brahmīśvaramuḍaiya-Nāyaṉār at Rājarājachaturvēdimaṅgalam, an independent brahmadēya village in Paṉaiyūr-nāḍu, a subdivision of Rājarāja-vaḷanāḍu. It will be evident from this record that Brahmadēśam was surnamed Rājarāja-chaturvēdimaṅgalam.

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] sa kalapuvaṉaccakkaravattikaḷ śrī kopperuñciṅkatevaṟku yāṇṭu 5- vatu

⟨2⟩ irājarāja vaḷanāṭṭup1paṉaiyūrnāṭṭup brahma teca nta ṉiyūr śrī irājarājacca turvēti maṅkala-

⟨3⟩ ttu uṭaiyār brahmiśvara muṭaiya nāyaṉārkku āmūr nilakaṅkaṉ ammūrikunta ṉ coḻaṅkatevaṉ

⟨4⟩ vaitta tirununtā viḷakku + oṉṟukku viṭṭa pacu 14 nāku- 10 ce- 8 vṛṣabha m- 1 ā[ka*] 25 muppattumuṉṟum

⟨5⟩ paṇṭāratte uṭnilaiccuraviyākak kūṭṭikkoṇṭu paṇṭāratte ney yaḷan tu canti rātit[ta*]varai e-

⟨6⟩ rikkakkaṭavom ikkoyil śrīmāhēśva rarom [||*] itu panmā heśvara rakṣai [||*]

⟨SIIv12p0i0147⟩ No. 147. (A.R. No. 323 of 1921). TIRUKKŌYILŪR, TIRUKKOYILUR TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT. ON THE NORTH WALL OF THE SECOND PRĀKĀRA IN THE TRIVIKRAMA-PERUMĀḶ TEMPLE.

It is stated in this record of Sakalabhuvanachakravarttin Avaniāḷappiṟandān alias Kōpperuñjiṅgadēva, dated in the 5th year, that the kāṇiyāḷar of the temple of Tiruviḍaikaḻi-Emberumān at Tirukkōvalūr agreed to burn a twilight lamp in the temple in return for six cows received by them from certain shepherds residing at Mēlaip-Paṉaippākkam in Iḍaiyāṟṟu-nāḍu, a subdivision of Tirumuṉaippāḍi.

For the cows received the kāṇiyāḷar undertook to supply, by the ulagaḷandānnāḻi, 1 nāḻi and 1 uri of ghee monthly to the temple.

The astronomical details given in the record correspond to A.D. 1247, December 29, Sunday.

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⟨1⟩ hari[ḥ] śvasti śrī [||*] cakalapuvanacca[k*]karavattikaḷ śrī avaniāḷappiṟaṉtānāna kopperuñci[g*] kat(o)va[r*]kku iyāṇṭu 5- āvatu ma-

⟨2⟩ karanāyaṟṟu pūrva pakṣattu pradha maiyum nāyiṟṟu[k*]kiḻamaiyum peṟṟa uttirāṭattu nāḷ tiruk kovalūr tiruviṭaikaḻi emperumānu-

⟨3⟩ kku tirumuṉaippāṭi iṭaiyāṟṟunāṭṭu melaippaṉaippākkattilirukkum maṉṟāṭikaḷil matakaṉ tevanum ivaṉ2makkaḷ pūvaṉum cuttaṉum amuta- ⟨Page 76⟩

⟨4⟩ ṉum vaṇ[ṭa]num iṟ[ṟ*]aināḷ mutal vaitta caṉtiviḷakku oṉṟukku i[k*]koil kāṇiyāḷar kaikkoṇṭu vaiyirāvaṇakkoṉ uḷḷiṭṭār pakkal viṭṭa pacu āṟu

⟨5⟩ ippacu āṟum kaikkoṇṭu caṉtirātittavarai tiruviḷakku celvatākak kalveṭṭi viṭṭom kāṇiyāḷarom [|*] itu śrīvaiṣṇava rakṣai [|*] ippacu āṟukkum mātam oṉṟu[k*]ku ulakaḷan tā[n*] nāḻiyāl aḷa[k*]kum ney nāḻiuri [||*]

⟨SIIv12p0i0148⟩ No. 148. (A.R. No. 530 of 1922). TIRUKKAṆṆAPURAM, NANNILAM TALUK, TANJORE DISTRICT. ON THE EAST WALL OF THE SECOND PRĀKĀRA IN THE ŚAURIRĀJA-PERUMĀḶ TEMPLE.

This is an incomplete record of Peruñjiṅgadēva dated in the 5th year and is called a mūlasādhanam 1of the chief. It records a sale of land in Śembiyaṉ Kurudaiyāḍi, situated in Paṉaiyūr-nāḍu, a subdivision of Kulōttuṅgaśōḻa-vaḷanāḍu to Udaiyaṉ Tiruñānasambandaṉ Aḻagiyāṉ Rājadivākara-Mūvēndiravēḷāṉ of Viḻiyūr in Āvūr-kūṟṟam, a subdivision of Nittavinōda-vaḷanāḍu by Araiyaṉ Puṟṟiḍaṅkoṇḍāṉ Dēvapperumāḷ, the headman of Kurudaiyāḍi in Tañjāvūr-kūṟṟam, a subdivision of Pāṇḍikulāśaṉi-vaḷanāḍu. As the record is incomplete further details as to the purpose of the transaction are not clear.

The details of date given in the inscription are not regular.

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⟨1⟩ mulacātaṉam [|*] śrīmat•••• peruñciṅkatevaṟku yāṇṭu [5- vatu] makaranāyaṟṟu pūrvapakṣa ttu daśami yum tiṅkaṭkiḻamaiyum peṟṟa aṉiḻattunāḷ nittavinotavaḷanāṭṭu āvūrkkūṟṟattu viḻiyūruṭaiyāṉ [vu]taiyaṉ tiruñānacampantaṉ aḻaki[y]ā ṉirācativākara muventiraveḷāṉukku pāṇṭikulācaṉivaḷanāṭṭu tañcāvūṟkūṟṟattu kurutaiyāṭikiḻāṉ araiyaṉ puṟṟiṭaṅkoṇṭāṉ

⟨2⟩ tevapperumāḷe••••• ṟṟa nilamāvatu [||*] kulottuṅkacoḻavaḷa nāṭṭu paṇaiyūrnāṭṭu cempiyaṉkurutai[yāṭiyi]l nattamum viḷainilamumāvatu [|*] kiḻaikkuru taiyāṭiyil teṟkil māḷikai nattattil maṉaikku ellaiyāvatu kiḻpāṟkellai paṭṭappāḻukku meṟkum teṉpāṟkkellai nattam kuḻi 180 itu[vu*]m maṉṟukku vaṭakkil kiḻtiṭal nattam kuḻi 25 ikkuḻi irupattañcum āka na-

⟨3⟩ ttam kuḻi 205 ikkuḻi••••• 3125- kku kuḻi irunūṟṟirupattañcum ivaṟkku viṟṟa viḷainilamāvatu melaina[tta*]ttukkut teṟkku paṭṭappāḻ nattat[tuk*]kuk kiḻakkuvāyttu percollappaṭṭa nilam vapa-innilam āṟumāvum itaṉ meṟku vāykkālukku meṟku [tuk]kaiv(ā)yakkal eṉṟu percollappaṭṭa nilam[khatma] innilam kāle mukkā[ṇi*] yum paṭṭappāḻukkut teṟku vāṉavaṉ [vā*]ykkā[l*] nilam

⟨4⟩ 4 tma iṉṉilam na••••• vaṉ koyi(l)lukkut teṟkku ayyaṉ tiruvip puttaṭi nilam 4 cuṟā-l nālumāvaraiyum itaṉ kiḻakkuttaṭik•• viḷākam nilam iṉṉi lag kālekāṇiyum itaṉ kiḻakku araiyaṉkāl nilam kha- kku inni[lam k]ā[l]le mukkāṇiyum i(ṉa)taṉ teṟku nilam 4 pa innilam nālumākkāṇi iṅku viṭṭu meṟkku vaṭakkaṭaiya pūppaṟi yal vā[yk*]kā(l)lukkut teṟku

⟨5⟩ pūppaṟiyalkkuṭṭa••••• ṅku viṭṭuk kiḻakku kiḻainattattukku teṟku [ci] pe[ṟ]āṟu kuṭikkuṭi ellaikku vaṭakku mevumāka tāṉ kaṭṭaḷai nilam nta iṉṉilam muk kāle iraṇṭu māmukkaṇiyum uṭaiyār puṟṟiṭaṅkoṇṭanāyiṉār tiruiruppukku vaṭakku nilam tma innilam mukkā[le*]mukkāṇiyum itaṉ kiḻakku arunta 2 ⟨Page 77⟩

⟨SIIv12p0i0149⟩ No. 149. (A.R. No. 296 of 1913). CHIDAMBARAM, CHIDAMBARAM TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT. ON THE NORTH WALL OF THE THIRD PRĀKĀRA IN THE NAṬARĀJA TEMPLE.

This inscription gives an insight into the management of temple affairs. It is dated in the 6th year of Sakalabhuvanachakravartti Avaṉiyāḷappiṟandār alias Kōpperuñjiṅgadēva. The temple at Chidambaram was at this time managed by a committee consisting of the following members and groups, viz., Jayatuṅgap-Pallavaraiyar, Tillaia7mbalap-Pallavaraiyar, Māhēśvara-kaṇkāṇiśeyvār, Śrīkāryañśeyvār, Sāmudāyañcheyvār, Kōyilnāyakañcheyvār, Tirumāḷigaikkūṟuśeyvār and the accountants.

It registers a grant of land made by Śoṭṭai-Nāyaka alias Kumāra-Bhaṭṭa of Irāyūr residing in Poṉmēyndaśōḻa-chaturvēdimaṅgalam for a flower garden called ‘Tirunilai-Aḻagiyāḷ’ for supplying flowers to the god and the goddess Tirukkāmakkōṭṭamuḍaiya Periyanāchchiyār with an additional plot by purchase from Poṉṉāṇḍi, wife of Uḻaichchāṇan Mādēvaṉ Tiruchchiṟṟambalamuḍaiyāṉ of Perumbaṟṟappuliyūr, as tirunāmattukkāṇi, for the maintenance of the person looking after this garden.

The village Poṉmēyndaśōḻa-chaturvēdimaṅgalam must have been so named after the title of Kulōttuṅga-Chōḷa II. 1The inscription purpots to be an order of Śōḻakōṉ.

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrī ḷa sa kalapuvaṉaccakkaravattikaḷ śrī avaṉiyāḷappiṟantārāṉa kopperuñciṅka tevaṟku yāṇṭu āṟāvatu coḻakoṉ olai [|*] jayatuṅkappallavaraiyarum tillaiampalappalla varaiyarum uṭaiyār tirucciṟṟampalamuṭaiyār koyil śrīmāheśvara-

⟨2⟩ kkaṇkāṇiceyvārkaḷum śrīkāriyañ ceyvārkaḷum sā mutāyañ ceyvārkaḷum koyilnāyakañ ceyvārkaḷum tirumāḷikaikkūṟu ceyvārkaḷum kaṇakkarum kaṇṭu viṭu tan[ta]tāvatu [|*] koyilukkum tirukkāmakkoṭṭamuṭaiya

⟨3⟩ periyanācciyārkkum ciṟappākac cāttiaruḷat tiruppūmaṇṭapattukku mutalākat tiruppaḷḷit tāmam aḷakka poṉme[y*]ntacoḻaccaruppetimaṅkalattu irāyūrc coṭṭaināyakarāṉa śrī kumārapaṭṭaṉ tirunilaiaḻakiyāḷ tirunanta-

⟨4⟩ vaṉameṉṉum tirunāmattāl(c) ceykiṟa tirunantavaṉattukku kuṇṭatarappāṭiyāṉa tirucciṟṟam palamaṅkalattum irāmatevamaṅkalattum putukkoḷḷiṭaāṟṟukku vaṭakaraippaṭṭa naṭuvilkkāṭ[ṭi]l ivaṉkāṇiyāṉa kollaiyil ū-

⟨5⟩ rmāviynta kaṭamai kuṭimai ivvūril ivaṉ kāṇiyāṉa nilattil eṟṟi yiṟukka kaṭavaṉāka viṭṭa kollai kuḻi muṉṉūṟṟu irupatum tirunantavaṉam ceyya oṉṟekāl āṉimutal koṇṭu nāḷ oṉṟukku koyilukku kuṟuṇittirup-

⟨6⟩ paḷḷittāmamum tirukkāmakkoṭṭamuṭaiya periyanācciyār koyilukku kuṟuṇit tiruppaḷḷit tāmamum aḷakkavum ivvāḷukkuk koṟṟukkum tiruppāvāṭaippuṟam tirunāmattuk kāṇiyākavum perumpaṟṟappuliyūril uḻaiccāṇan

⟨7⟩ mātevaṉ tirucciṟṟampalamuṭaiyāṉ brāhmaṇi poṉṉāṇṭi pakkal mituṉakkuṭikku•• tillaipperumāḷ tirucciṟṟampalamuṭaiyāṉāṉa viracoḻabrahmā rāyar peril ivvūrt ten piṭākai puvalokamāṇikkavaḷanāṭṭup pirā•

⟨8⟩ ṭāṉ pāṟvatinallūrp pālacuntaracoḻavatikkuk kiḻakkuc coḷentirasiṁ havāykkālukkut teṟkku muṉṟāg kaṇṇāṟṟu nālāñcatirattu ko[ṭu][t]tāḷeṉṟuperuṭai[ya*] nilamāy vilaikoṇṭa ūrppaṭi nilam mukkāle orumāvaraiyil ⟨Page 78⟩

⟨9⟩ inta tirunantavaṉakkuṭikaḷukku koṟṟukku uṭalāka vaṭakkaṭaiya viṭṭa nilam araiyum nikki nilam aṟumāvaraiyum tiruppāvāṭaippuṟat tirunāmattukkāṇiyum tillaināyakaṉ perumpaṇṭā rattukku mutalākap poṉakappaḻaṉellu aḷakkavum innila-

⟨10⟩ m mukkāle oru māvaraikkum tarappaṭi maṭakku mukkāṇi muntirikaikkiḻaraiye iraṇṭumāvukkum ūrmāvinta kaṭamai(y) kuṭimai ūril(k)kaḻikka mulaparuṭaiyār eḻutiṉa niyokamum inta nilamum kollaiyum tirunāmattukkāṇiyākat tanta piramāṇamum mulap-

⟨11⟩ piramāṇaṅkaḷum tirunantavaṉakkuṭimai koṇṭa tiṭṭum tirukkai oṭṭip paṇṭārattu oṭukkavum [|*] ippaṭikkut tirumāḷikaiyil kal veṭṭuvatākap paṇṇuvate [|*] i[vai] coḻakoṉ eḻuttu eṉṟum vanta eva[ṟ*](t)tiṭṭiṉpaṭi kal veṭṭiyatu ḥḷa

⟨SIIv12p0i0150⟩ No. 150. (A.R. No. 448 of 1921). TIRUVEṆṆAINALLŪR, TIRUKKOYILUR TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT. ON THE SOUTH WALL OF THE MAṆḌAPA IN FRONT OF THE CENTRAL SHRINE IN THE KṚIPĀPURĪŚVARA TEMPLE.

This inscription, dated in the 6th year, states that a bell, incense brazier, chainlamp and a plate (for waving light) made by converting a small copper pot, were presented to the god Āṭkoṇḍadēva at Tiruveṇṇainallūr by Tirumalaiy-Aḻagiyāṉ alias Vīragaḷvīrap-Pallavaraiyaṉ, 1son of Aṟamuḍaiyār, a dēvaraḍiyār of the temple.

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] cakalapuvaṉaccakkaravattikaḷ śrī-

⟨2⟩ kopperuñciṅkatevaṟku yāṇṭu 6- vatu

⟨3⟩ tiruveṇṇainallūr uṭaiyār āṭ-

⟨4⟩ koṇṭatevaṟku inṉāyanār tevaraṭiyā-

⟨5⟩ ril aṟamuṭaiyār makan tirumalaiyaḻaki-

⟨6⟩ yāṉāṉa virakaḷvirap pallaraiya niṭṭa tūpa-

⟨7⟩ maṇi nākkum nārācamum uṭpaṭap pittaḷai iṭai

⟨8⟩ 40- m tūpam 1- ṉāl iṭai 14- m tuṭar 1- ṉāl i-

⟨9⟩ ṭai 18- m va[tti] ciṟucceppuppāṉai aḻittu

⟨10⟩ c ceyta tiruvālattittaṭṭam 1- ṉā liṭai

⟨11⟩ 16- m āka i[v*]vurukkaḷ śrīpaṇṭārattu oṭuk-

⟨12⟩ kittu [||*]

⟨SIIv12p0i0151⟩ No. 151. (A.R. No. 304 of 1913). CHIDAMBARAM, CHIDAMBARAM TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT. ON THE NORTH WALL OF THE THIRD PRĀKĀRA IN THE NAṬARĀJA TEMPLE.

This inscription, dated in the 7th year, contains an order of the officer Śōḻakōṉ issued to the authorities of the temple at Chidambaram, to engrave on their temple walls, the gift of a flower garden made after purchase by a dēvaraḍiyār named Piḷḷaiyār Śiṟṟiḍai Arivai and one Iṟaṅgalmīṭṭa-piḷḷaiyār, for providing flowers for the goddess Tirukkāmakkōṭṭamuḍaiya-Periyanāchchiyār and for the maintenance of two servants looking after the garden.

It may be mentioned that the officers Jayatuṅga-Pallavaraiyar, Tillaia7mbala-Pallavaraiyar and Teṉṉavaṉ-Brahmamārāyan 2mentioned here also figure in No. 124 of 1888, a record of the 28th year of Māṟavarman Kulaśēkharadēva (A.D. 1296) from the same temple.

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrī ḷa sa kalapuvaṉaccakkaravattikaḷ śrī avaṉiyāḷappiṟant[ā]rāṉa kopperuñciṅkatevaṟku yāṇṭu 7- vatu coḻakoṉ olai [|*] teṉṉavaṉbrahma mārāyarum

⟨2⟩ jayatuṅkapallavaraiyarum tillaiampalapallavaraiyarum uṭaiyār tirucciṟṟampalamuṭaiyār koyil śrī māhēśvara kaṇkāṇi ceyvārkaḷum śrīkāriyañ ceyvārkaḷum ⟨Page 79⟩

⟨3⟩ sā mutāyañ ceyvārkaḷum koyilnāyakañ ceyvārkaḷum tirumāḷikaikkūṟu ceyvārkaḷum kaṇakkarum kaṇṭu viṭu tantatāvatu [|*] koyilukku ciṟappākac cāttiaruḷa tevara-

⟨4⟩ ṭiyāril piḷḷaiyār ciṟṟiṭaiarivai ceyvikkiṟa tiruna[n*]tavaṉattukku tiruna[n*]tavaṉa[t*][ta]ṟai yāka perumpaṟṟappuliyūr piṭākai kaṭavācceriyil uḻaiccāṇaṉ tirunaṭṭapperumāḷ civaṉ

⟨5⟩ pakkal kavuṇiyaṉ tirucciṟṟampalamuṭaiyāṉ viṉāyaka[n*] peril vilaikoṇṭa ūrppaṭi nilam orumāvum tiruna[n*]tavaṉañ ceyyavum tirunantavaṉam ceyyum āḷ oṉṟukku tiruna[n*]ta vaṉa[p*]puṟamāka ivūr piṭākai caṇṭe-

⟨6⟩ śu ranallūril kulottuṅkacoḻapiramārāyaṉ brāhmaṇi pakkal koṇṭa civakāmacuntari viḷākam eṉṟu peruṭaiya ūrpaṭi nila[m*] nālumāvum ivūr piṭākai iḷanāṅkūril teṉṉavaṉ brahmamā rāyar pakkal vilaiko[ṇṭa]

⟨7⟩ cirāviḷākam eṉṟu peruṭaiya nilattu ūrppaṭi nilam oru māvum koṟṟukku uṭalākavum tirukkāmakkoṭṭamuṭaiya periyaṉācciyārkkuc cāttiaruḷa iṟaṅkalmiṭṭapiḷḷaiyār cey vikkiṟa tiruna[n*]tavaṉattukku ivūr piṭākai naṭuvilkaraiyil

⟨8⟩ tirukkaḷiṟṟupaṭit toṇṭaṉ pakkal vilaikoṇṭa kuḻi nūṟum tiruna[n*]tavaṉañceyavum tiruna [n*]tavaṉañceyum āḷ oṉṟukku tiruna[n*]tavaṉa[p*]puṟamāka ivūr piṭākai iḷanāṅkūril teṉṉavaṉ brahma mārāyar pakkal vilaikoṇṭa cirāviḷākam eṉṟu peruṭaiya nilattu

⟨9⟩ ūrpaṭi nilam eḻumāvum koṟṟukku uṭalākavum āka āḷ iraṇṭu āḷ oṉṟukku nāḷ oṉṟukku kuṟuṇi nānāḻiyāka vanta tiruppaḷḷittāmam tiruppūmaṇṭapattu mutalāka aḷak kavum tiruna[n*]tavaṉattukkum tiruna[n*]tavaṉappuṟamāka koṟṟukkum vilaikoṇṭa nilat tukku

⟨10⟩ vilaikoṇṭa cātaṉaṅkaḷum nilaṅkaḷi[lu*]m paṅku [vari] kaḻiya perumpaṟṟappuliyūr mulaparuṣaiyār eḻutiṉa niyokamum tirukkaioṭṭi paṇṭārattu oṭukkavum [|*] ippaṭikku tirumāḷikaiyil kalveṭṭa[k*]kaṭavatāka paṇṇuvate [|*] ivai coḻakoṉ eḻutteṉṟu pukunta evaṟ tiṭṭuppaṭi kal-

⟨11⟩ veṭṭiyatu ḷa

⟨SIIv12p0i0152⟩ No. 152. (A.R. No. 305 of 1913). ON THE SAME WALL.

The subjoined inscription, dated in the 7th year, also registers an order of Śōḻakōṉ to engrave on the ‘Vikramaśōḻaṉ-tirumāḷigai’ the deed of a gift of land made as tirunāmattukkāṇi by a certain Tittikka-Āḍuvāṉ, after purchase from Tiruchchiṟṟambala-Mūvēndavēḷāṉ of Kārikuḍi, for providing five offerings to the image of Dakshiṇāmūrti in addition to three already in vogue so as to correspond with the number of services offered to Mūlasthānam-Uḍaiyār, the principal deity in the temple. The donor mentioned in this record made a further gift of land 10 years later (No. 201 below) for providing offerings to the same image.

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] sakalabhu vaṉaccakkaravattikaḷ śrīavaṉiyāḷappiṟantārāṉa kopperuñciṅka tevaṟku yāṇṭu

⟨2⟩ 7- vatu coḻakoṉ olai [||*] teṉṉavaṉbrahmamārā yarum jayatuṅkappallavaraiyarum tillaiampa lapallavaraiyarum u-

⟨3⟩ ṭaiyār tirucciṟṟampalamuṭaiyārkoyil śrīmāheśva rak kaṇkāṇi ceyvārkaḷum śrīkāriyañ ceyvārkaḷum sā mutāyañ cey-

⟨4⟩ vārkaḷum koyilnāyakañ ceyvārkaḷum tirumāḷikaikkūṟu ceyvārkaḷum kaṇakkarum kaṇṭu viṭu tantatāvatu [|*] uṭaiyār śrīmula- ⟨Page 80⟩

⟨5⟩ sthāna muṭaiyār amutu ceytaruḷi varukiṟa canti eṭṭum ikkoyil dakṣi ṇāmuttidē var amutu ceytaruḷavum itukku muṉpu amutu ce-

⟨6⟩ taruḷi varukiṟa [canti] munṟu nikki eṟṟamāka amutuceytaruḷuñ canti [ai]ñcukkum appam aiñ cukkum veṇṭu nivantattukku uṭalāka kū-

⟨7⟩ •• uṭaiyāṉ tittikkaāṭuvāṉ tiru[nā]mattukkāṇiyāka kārikuṭaiyāṉ tirucciṟṟampala muventaveḷāṉ pakkal koṇṭu

⟨8⟩ viṭṭa rājādhirāja vaḷanāṭṭu cemaṅkala[ttu] viḷainilam irupattumuṉṟemukkāle kāṇi[yum] ūrnattattu iṟaiyili maṉaika-

⟨9⟩ ḷum uḷppaṭa tirunāmattukkāṇiyāka eḻutiṉa sādha naṅkaḷ tirukkaioṭṭip paṇ[ṭārattu] oṭukka vum [|*] iṉṉilam t[evatāṉa]

⟨10⟩ iṟaiyiliyāka tevar ti[ru*]mukam eḻutiṉapaṭi [yāṇṭu] eḻāvatu mutal tevatāṉamum tiru nāmattukkāṇiyum āka kaiykkoṇṭu pala-

⟨11⟩ paṇinivantakkāṟa[ru]kku jivi[tamaṭaikkavum [|*] ippaṭikku vikkiramacoḻaṉ tirumāḷik[aiyile kal veṭṭa kaṭavatāka pa]-

⟨12⟩ [ṇ]ṇuvate[||*] ippaṭi coḻakoṉ [eḻuttu] eṉṟu pukunta evaṟ(t)tiṭṭiṉpaṭi kal veṭṭi yatu ||௳

⟨SIIv12p0i0153⟩ No. 153. (A.R. No. 545 of 1921). TIRUNĀRAIYŪR, CHIDAMBARAM TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT. ON THE SOUTH WALL OF THE SUNDARĒŚVARA SHRINE IN THE POLLĀPPIḶḶAIYĀR TEMPLE.

This inscription dated in the 7th year, registers a sale of 60 mā of land in Mugaiyūr, hamlet of Vīranārāyaṇa-chaturvēdimaṅgalam in Kulōttuṅgaśōḻa-chaturvēdimaṅgalam and in Vīrapperumāḷmaṅgalam, to the temple of Mūlattānam-Uḍaiyār in Tirunāraiyūr, an independent village in Virudarājabhayaṅkara-vaḷanāḍu ‘on the northern bank,’ by the temple of Tiruppulīśvaram-Uḍaiyār at Perumbaṟṟappuliyūr, an independent village in [Rājādhi]rāja-vaḷanāḍu, for one hundred and twenty thousand kāśu.

It may be noted that the amount is specified in multiples of thousands and that for the denomination of a ‘lakh’ ‘one hundred thousand’ is used here. The sale price works at 2,000 kāśu per mā of land.

The village Mugaiyūr may be identified with the village of the same name in the Chidambaram taluk. The village Tirunāraiyūr where this inscription is found is stated to have been a suburb of Vīranārāyaṇa-chaturvēdimaṅgalam (A.R. No. 543 of 1921). Kulōttuṅgaśōḻa-chaturvēdimaṅgalam and Vīrapperumāḷ-maṅgalam were probably other suburbs of Tirunāraiyūr.

The details of date correspond to A.D. 1249, October 19, Tuesday.

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] cakalapuvaṉaccakkaravattikaḷ

⟨2⟩ śrī kopperuñciṅkadē varkku yā-

⟨3⟩ ṇṭu eḻāvatu tulānāyaṟṟu [pū]-

⟨4⟩ rvapakṣa ttu dvādaśi yum cevvā-

⟨5⟩ ykkiḻamaiyum peṟṟa uttira[ṭ]ṭā-

⟨6⟩ ti••• [rācāti]rācavaḷanāṭṭu taṉiyūr

⟨7⟩ p[erumpaṟṟappuli]yūr uṭaiyār tiruppu-

⟨8⟩ li••• koyil āticaṇṭecu-

⟨9⟩ var tiruvaruḷāl ikkoyil śrīmāhēcuvarak- ⟨Page 81⟩

⟨10⟩ kaṇkāṇi cevvārkaḷum cikāriyañ cevvār-

⟨11⟩ kaḷum tevarkaṉmi koyilkkaṇakkar uḷḷiṭ-

⟨12⟩ ṭārom nilavilaippiramāṇa i[cai*]vutiṭṭu [|*] vaṭakarai vi-

⟨13⟩ rutarācapayaṅkaravaḷanāṭṭut taṉiyūr tirunāraiyūr uṭaiyār

⟨14⟩ śrīmulattāṉamuṭaiyār koyil āticaṇṭecuvaratevar tiru-

⟨15⟩ varuḷāl ikkoyil śrīmāhēcuvarakkaṇkāṇi ceyvārka-

⟨16⟩ ḷukkum [śrī]kāriyañceyvārkaḷukkum tevarkaṉ(m)mik koyil(k)-

⟨17⟩ kaṇakkar uḷḷiṭṭār[k*]kum nilavilaippiramāṇattiṭṭuk kuṭut-

⟨18⟩ ta paricāvatu [|*] mutaliyār kāccāyaṉ ātittappaṭṭarā[ṉa] tiruvai-

⟨19⟩ yāṟuṭaiyārum tiricciṟṟampalamuṭaiyār ulakuṭaiyā-

⟨20⟩ ṉpaṭṭarum pakkal śrīviranārāyaṇaccaruppetimaṅkalattup pi-

⟨21⟩ ṭākai mukai[yū]ril tirunāmattukkāṇiyāka koṇṭu uṭaiyo-

⟨22⟩ māṉa nilattil viṟṟukkuṭutta cantiracekaravatikku kiḻakku [rāc]ātirācavāy[k*]-

⟨23⟩ kālukku vaṭakku mutal(k)kaṇṇāṟṟu mutalcatirattu melai āṟu-

⟨24⟩ māvil teṟkkaṭaiya nilam iraṇṭumā araikkāṇiyum itaṉ

⟨25⟩ vaṭakku nilam mukkāṇi araikkāṇi muntirikai nikki itaṉ vaṭa-

⟨26⟩ kku nilam nilam mukkāṇi araikkāṇi muntirikaiyum itaṉ va-

⟨27⟩ ṭakku nilam oru mā nikki itaṉ vaṭakku nilam oru māvum kiḻai āṟumā-

⟨28⟩ vil teṟkkaṭaiya nilam nālu māvil meṟ[k]kaṭaiya nilam kāṇiyu-

⟨29⟩ m itaṉ vaṭakku nilam iraṇṭu māvum iraṇṭā-

⟨30⟩ ṅkaṇṇāṟṟu mutal [catira]m nilam paṉṉiraṇṭu māvu-

⟨31⟩ m iraṇṭāñcatirattu vaṭakkaṭaiya nilam nālu mā-

⟨32⟩ vil kiḻkkaṭaiya nilam••••• mun-

⟨33⟩ tirikaiyum muṉṟāñcatirattu i•• āṟumā-

⟨34⟩ vil vaṭaikkaṭaiyap paṭṭappāḻ nilam kāṇiyum

⟨35⟩ [muṉ]ṟāg kaṇṇāṟṟu mutal catiram nilam paṉṉiraṇ[ṭu mā]

⟨36⟩ vaṭakku [nilam*] nālu māvil teṉmeṟkkaṭaiya nilam oru mā

⟨37⟩ naṭuvil nālumāvi[l] 1akaram kulottugkacozaccaruppetimag-

⟨38⟩ kalam nilam orumāmukkāṇi[k*]ki[ḻ*] nilam oṉpatu mākkāṇiyum

⟨39⟩ iraṇṭāñcatirattu melai āṟumāvil teṟkkaṭaiya nilam

⟨40⟩ iraṇṭu mā [nikki] itaṉ vaṭakku nilam oru māvum itaṉ vaṭakku [ni]-

⟨41⟩ [lam] muṉ[ṟumā] itil kiḻkkaṭai[ya] nilam kāṇi nikki itaṉ m[e]-

⟨42⟩ [ṟku] nilam iraṇṭu mā mukkāṇiyum nālāg kaṇṇāṟṟu mutal

⟨43⟩ catirattu [teṟkkaṭ]aiya nilam nālu māvil meṟkkaṭaiya nilam

⟨44⟩ iraṇṭumāvum aiñcāṅkaṇṇāṟṟu iraṇṭāñcatirattu nilam

⟨45⟩ paṉṉiraṇṭu mā itil vaṭakiḻakkaṭaiya nilam mukkāṇi nikki

⟨46⟩ nilam patiṉoru māk kāṇiyil kiḻai āṟumāvil akaram virap-

⟨47⟩ perumāḷmaṅkalam mukkāṇiyum [melai] āṟumāvil vaṭa[k*]kaṭaiya

⟨48⟩ nilam irumāvaraiyum āka nilam muṉṟu[mā]kkāṇi nikki nikkinila-

⟨49⟩ m eṭṭumāvum muṉṟāñ catiram nilam [paṉ]ṉiraṇṭumāvil teṉ[ki]-

⟨50⟩ ḻkkaṭaiya nilam oru mā nikki nikki patiṉoru māvum āṟā-

⟨51⟩ ṅkaṇṇāṟṟu mutal catirattu vaṭa[k*]kaṭaiya nilam [ā]ṟumāvu[m ā]-

⟨52⟩ ka aṟupatu māvum viṟṟukkuṭuttom tirunāraiyūr uṭai-

⟨53⟩ y[ā*]r śrī mulattāṉamuṭaiyār koyil āticaṇṭecuvaratevarka-

⟨54⟩ ṉmikaḷukku uṭaiyār tiruppu(l)licuvaramuṭaiyār kovil [āticaṇṭ]e- ⟨Page 82⟩

⟨55⟩ cuvaratevar kaṉmikaḷom [|*] innilam aṟupatumāvum viṟṟukku-

⟨56⟩ ṭuttuk koḷvatāṉa emmil icai(y)nta vilaipporuḷ [aṉṟāṭu] 1cellum na-

⟨57⟩ lkācu 120000 ikkācu nūṟāyirattirupatiṉāyiramum āvaṇakkaḷariye

⟨58⟩ kāṭṭeṟṟi[k kaicce]lavaṟakkoṇṭu innilattukku ituve 2

⟨SIIv12p0i0154⟩ No. 154. (A.R. No. 308 of 1913). CHIDAMBARAM, CHIDAMBARAM TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT. ON THE NORTH WALL OF THE THIRD PRĀKĀRA OF THE NAṬARĀJA TEMPLE.

This inscription registers the order of Śōḻakōṉ issued in the 8th year of the chief, granting 4 [vēli] and 6 mā of land in Kaḍavāychchēri alias Tillaināyakanallūr, a hamlet of Perumbaṟṟappuliyūr, with the new name Tiruvambalapperumāḷpuram for settling on it the Śāliyar (i.e.) the weaving class, stipulating that the latter should provide cloths for the pariśaṭṭam of the god and goddess Tirukkāmakkōṭṭamuḍaiya-Periyanāchchiyār in the temple.

This inscription states that Śōḻakōṉ was also called Perumāḷ-Piḷḷai, that he belonged to Araśūr and that he was one of the mudalis (officers) of the chief.

The streets named after Kulōttuṅga-Chōḷa, Kōpperuñjiṅgadēva and Rājākkaḷtambirāṉ are also mentioned in the record.

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] sakalabhu vaṉacakravatti kaḷ avaṉiāḷappiṟantārāṉa śrīkopperuñciṅka tevaṟku yāṇṭu eṭṭāvatu ௳ coḻakoṉ olai [|*] teṉṉavaṉ brahma mārāyarum jayatuṅkap pallavarayarum tillaiampalappallavarayarum uṭaiyār tirucciṟṟa-

⟨2⟩ mpalamuṭaiyārkoyil śrīmā heśvara k kaṇkāṇi ceyvārkaḷum śrīkāriyañ ceyvārkaḷum sā mutāyañ ceyvārkaḷum koyilnāyakañ ceyvārkaḷum tirumāḷikaikkūṟu ceyvārkaḷum kaṇakkarum kaṇṭu viṭu tantatāvatu [|*] koyilukkum tiruk-

⟨3⟩ kāmakkoṭṭamuṭaiya periyanācciyārkkum cāttum paricaṭṭattukkum vaḻakkattukku 25 iṭavum tiruvampalapperumāḷpurameṉṉum civanāmattāl eṟṟukiṟa nakarattuc cālikarkkuk kuṭiirup [pu] nattamākap perumpaṟṟapuliyūrp piṭākai kaṭavāy-

⟨4⟩ cceriyāṉa tillaināyakanallūril cuntaracoḻavatikku meṟku coḻakulacuntarivāykkālukkut teṟku nālāṅkaṇṇāṟṟu mutal(c)cattirattum iraṇṭāñcatirattum aiñcāṅkaṇṇāṟṟu mutaṟ catirattum iraṇṭāñcatirattum pala varavaiyum ceṇṭu-

⟨5⟩ veḷiyum sabhai ppotuvumāṉa nilattu rājasūryya ṉkamuku tiruna[n]tavaṉañceytu muta laḻittum jivita maṭaittum sabhai ppotuvāykkiṭanta kulottuṅkacoḻaṉ teṅkutiruviti yil kallāl ceyta matakāl kiḻakku nokki nirpāykiṟa vāy-

⟨6⟩ kkālukku vaṭa[k]kum ittiruvitiyil(k) kiḻai oru(c) ciṟa[ki]ṉ vālniḷavaṟutikkum kiḻakkuppaṭṭa oṭaikkum kiḻakku kopperuñciṅkaṉ tiruviti teṟ[ki]lttiruvitit teṉciṟa[kil] teṟkuppaṭṭa kuḷaṅkaḷukkut teṟkum cavaḷiakaramāṉa tirucciṟṟampalaccaruppetimaṅkala-

⟨7⟩ ttu ellaikkum tiruppāvāṭaippuṟattu melaikkulaikku meṟkum naṭuvupaṭṭa nūṟukuḻikoṇṭatoru mā[vāka] nilam nāle [ā]ṟumā mukkāṇi iṉnilam nāle āṟumā mukkāṇiyil naṭuvaṭaiya eḻuntaruḷiyirukkum śrīmāhēśvara viṉāyakappiḷḷaiyār śrī

⟨8⟩ koyilum tirumuṟṟamum civappirāmaṇar kuṭiiruppu nattamum nilam mukkāṇi nikki nilam nāle āṟumāvil palapaṇinimantakkāṟarkku jivitamaṭaitta nilamāy māṟikkūṭṭiṉa nilam oṉṟe nālumā mukkāṇi araikkāṇiyum mutalaḻinta kamuka nti ru- ⟨Page 83⟩

⟨9⟩ nantavaṉattum sabhai ppotuvum palarum kuṭiiruppu nattamāṉa nilattu rājākkaḷtampirāṉ tiruvitiyilt teṟkilt tiruvitiyil āḷuṭaiyapiḷḷaiyār maṉai iṟaikoṇṭu varukiṟa maṉaika ḷālum nirnilaiyālum māṟikkūṭṭiṉa nilam muṉṟe orumā-

⟨10⟩ varaiye araikkāṇiyum āka nilam nāle āṟumā eṭṭāvatu mutal nakarattukkuk kuṭiyiruppu nattamākak kāṇiyākap peṟavum [|*] palapaṇinimantakkāṟarkku jivitamāṟikkūṭṭiṉa nilattukkut talaimāṟu ivarkaḷukkuc cervāṉa iṭaṅkaḷilē jivitamaṭaittuk

⟨11⟩ kuṭukkavum [|*] ippaṭikkut tirumāḷikaiyile kalveṭṭakkaṭavatākavum paṇṇuvateṉṟu tevar mutalikaḷil ara[cū]ruṭaiyār perumāḷppiḷḷaiyāṉa coḻakoṉār koyilukkuc cāttuppari caṭṭamum vaḻakkattukku 25 iṭavum eṟṟivitta cālikarkku nakaramākac

⟨12⟩ ceyta kuṭiiruppu nattattukku eḻutippukuntu tirukkaioṭṭiyil oṭukkiṉa evalttiṭṭuppaṭi kalveṭṭiyatu ௳

⟨SIIv12p0i0155⟩ No. 155. (A.R. No. 511 of 1921). TIRUVEṆṆAINALLŪR, TIRUKKOYILUR TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT. ON THE WEST WALL OF THE MAṆḌAPA IN FRONT OF THE CENTRAL SHRINE IN THE VAIKUṆṬHA-PERUMĀḶ TEMPLE.

This inscription, dated in the 8th year, states that the maṇḍapa [in front of the central shrine in the Vaikuṇṭha-Perumāḷ temple in the village] was constructed by Araśāḻvār, the elder sister of Āḷappiṟandār Aḻagiyaśīyar of Peṟugai, who was probably a member of a collateral branch of the Peruñjiṅga family with headquarters at Peṟugai.

The village Peṟugai cannot be satisfactorily identified, but it is probably to be located in Peṟugaṉūr-nāḍu in Tirumuṉaippāḍi. 1Peṟugaṉūr is probably the same as Periyaṉūr in the Tirukkoyilur taluk. 2

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] sakala puvaṉacakravatti kaḷ śrī

⟨2⟩ kopperuñciṅkatevaṟku yāṇṭu 8- vatu

⟨3⟩ peṟukai āḷappiṟan[t*]ār aḻa[ki*]yaciyar tiruttamakkai-

⟨4⟩ yār aracāḻvār ceyvicca tanmam ittiruma-

⟨5⟩ ṇṭapam ௳

⟨SIIv12p0i0156⟩ No. 156. (A.R. No. 117 of 1904). TĪRTTANAGARI, CUDDALORE TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT. ON THE NORTH WALL OF THE CENTRAL SHRINE IN THE ŚIVĀṄKURĒŚVARA TEMPLE.

This incomplete record, dated in the 9th year, registers a gift of 5(3/4) vēli of land as tirunāmattukkāṇi to the god at Tiruttiṉainagar. The order making the gift was also directed to be communicated to the officials of the temple at Perumbaṟṟappuliyūr (i.e., Chidambaram). A portion of the land endowed was situated in the hamlet of Poṉmēyndaśōḻach-chaturvēdimaṅgalam, which, as pointed out above, was called so after the surname of Kulōttuṅga-Chōḷa II. 3

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrī [||*] cakalapuvaṉaccakkaravarttikaḷ śrī kopperuñcig-

⟨2⟩ katevaṟku yāṇṭu oṉpatāvatu taimmāta[m*] nāḷ irunūṟṟo-

⟨3⟩ rupattoṉpatu mutal perumpaṟṟappuliyūr vāriyaṉu[kku]g kara-

⟨4⟩ ṇattāṉukkuñ collumpaṭi [|*] taṅkaḷūril uṭaiyār ⟨Page 84⟩

⟨5⟩ tiruttiṉainakaruṭaiyāṟkut tirunāmattukkāṇiyāṉa uḷ-

⟨6⟩ ḷoṭaiyil jaṉanātanallūrk karuttaṭaṅkaṇṇiy[ā]r

⟨7⟩ viḷākam nilam 3 ṟāsa- m nallāliyāṉa tirumālaiceraniṉṟā-

⟨8⟩ ḷ viḷāka[m*] nilam kha 4- m pālaṉūrāṉa periyanācciyārviḷāka[m] ni-

⟨9⟩ la[m*] 14- m akaram poṉmeynta coḻaccaruppetimaṅkalattup-

⟨10⟩ piṭākai kolattuccivapātacekaraviḷākag kamuku nilam kha- m vi-

⟨11⟩ ḷainilam kha- māka nilam runta- innilam añcemukkālukkum u-

⟨12⟩ •••••• koyiṟ••••• ṅkoḷ 1

⟨SIIv12p0i0157⟩ No. 157. (A.R. No. 318 of 1913). CHIDAMBARAM, CHIDAMBARAM TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT. ON THE NORTH WALL OF THE THIRD PRĀKĀRA IN THE NAṬARĀJA TEMPLE.

This record, also dated in the 9th year of the chief, registers an order of Śōḻakōṉ making a gift of 27 and odd mā of land, by purchase from several individuals, for the maintenance of gardeners working in three different gardens, namely, one, in Koṟṟaṅguḍi alias Pavittiramāṇikkanallūr, hamlet of Perumbaṟṟappuliyūr, and the others called ‘Avaṉiyāḷappiṟandāṉ-teṅgu-tirunandavaṉam’ in the same village and ‘Adiravīśiāḍuvāṉ-tirunandavaṉam’ at Maḍandayarmāṇikkanallūr. The gift is stated to have been made for the welfare of Kōpperuñjiṅga (dēvar tirumēṉikku naṉṟāga). The lands purchased were situated in the dēvadāna villages of (given by) Tamiḻnāḍukātta-Pallavaraiyar. 2

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⟨1⟩ svasti śrīḥ௳ sakalabhuvanacakravatti kaḷ avaṉiāḷappiṟantārāṉa śrī kopperuñciṅkatevarkku yāṇṭu oṉpatāvatu coḻakoṉ olai [|*] teṉṉavaṉ brahmamārā yarum jayatuṅkapallavara[yaru]m tirucciṟṟampalappallavara[yaru]m uṭaiyār tirucciṟṟampalamuṭaiyār koyiṟ śrīmāhēśvara [k*]kāṇkāṇi ceyvārkaḷum śrīkāriyañce•••••