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· <title type="alt">PART II. TAMIL AND GRANTHA INSCRIPTIONS. II. INSCRIPTIONS IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF VELŪR. No. 51. ON A ROCK ON THE TOP OF THE BAVĀJI HILL NEAR VELŪR.</title>
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35 <p>This rock-inscription is written in bold archaic letters; the lines are irregular and very close to each other. The inscription is dated in the twenty-sixth year of a king called <hi rend="bold">Kaṉṉara-deva</hi>, and records that <hi rend="bold">Velūr-pāḍi</hi> was given to the temple of <hi rend="bold">Paṉṉapeśvara</hi> on the top of the hill of <hi rend="bold">Śūdāḍupārai</hi> (<hi rend="italic">Śūdāḍupārai-malai</hi>) by <hi rend="bold">Nuḷambaṉ Tribhuvanadhīra</hi>, <hi rend="italic">alias</hi> <hi rend="bold">Muḍi-melaṉ Śrī-Pallava-Murāri</hi>. Another <hi rend="bold">Nuḷambaṉ</hi>, the first part of whose name is indistinct on the stone, and who was probably a relation of Nuḷambaṉ Tribhuvanadhīra, seems to have received <hi rend="bold">Velūr-pāḍi</hi> together with the hill of <hi rend="bold">Śūdāḍupārai</hi> from <hi rend="bold">Vīra-Choḷa. Velūr-pāḍi</hi> is probably the same as <hi rend="bold">Velapāḍi</hi>, a suburb of Vellore, near which the Bavāji Hill is situated, and which is supposed to be the oldest part of the town.<note>See <hi rend="italic">North Arcot Manual</hi>, p. 187.</note> <hi rend="bold">Śūdāḍupārai-malai</hi> must have been the old name of the <hi rend="bold">Bavāji</hi> Hill. It was situated in the north of <hi rend="bold">Paṅgaḷa-nāḍu</hi>, a division of <hi rend="bold">Paḍuvūr-koṭṭam</hi>. The <hi rend="bold">Śiva</hi> temple on its top had been founded by, and was called after, a certain <hi rend="bold">Paṉṉappai</hi>.</p>
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· <p>Besides the present Tamil inscription, five obliterated Telugu inscriptions are found on the top of the <hi rend="bold">Bavāji</hi> Hill. Four of them mention a certain <hi rend="bold">Nallaguruvayya</hi>; one of these four inscriptions is dated in Śaka 1539, the <hi rend="italic">Piṅgaḷa</hi> year.</p>
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60 <lb n="1"/><g type="ddanda"/> <hi rend="grantha">svasti</hi> <supplied reason="undefined"><g type="ddanda">.</g></supplied> <hi rend="grantha">śrī</hi>kaṉṉaratevaṟku yāṇṭu Irupattāṟāvatu
· <lb n="2"/>paṭuvūrkkoṭṭattuppaṅkaḷanāṭṭu vaṭakkil vakai<unclear>n=ta cū</unclear>
· <lb n="3" break="no"/>tāṭupāraimalai melppaṉṉappai Eṭuppitta
· <lb n="4"/>paṉṉape<hi rend="grantha">śva</hi>rattukku pokamāka Innāṭṭu velū
· <lb n="5" break="no"/>rppāṭi E<gap reason="lost" quantity="1" unit="character"/>makan nuḷampaṉ vīracoḻar pakkal
65 <lb n="6"/>cūtāṭupāraimalai Akappaṭa <hi rend="grantha">dhā</hi>rai Aṭṭuvittu ko
· <lb n="7" break="no"/>ṇṭu <hi rend="grantha">śandrā</hi>tittaruḷḷavum U<hi rend="grantha">da</hi>ka<hi rend="grantha">pūrvva</hi>ñcey
· <lb n="8" break="no"/>tu kuṭutteṉ nuḷampaṉ tiripuvaṉatīraṉeṉ <supplied reason="undefined"><g type="danda">.</g></supplied>
· <lb n="9"/>I<hi rend="grantha">dharma rakṣi</hi>ttāraṭiEṉ muṭimelaṉ <hi rend="grantha">śrī</hi>palla
· <lb n="10" break="no"/>vamurāri <supplied reason="undefined"><g type="danda">.</g></supplied> I<hi rend="grantha">dharma</hi> Iṟakkuvāṉ kaṅkai kumariyiṭaicce
70 <lb n="11" break="no"/>ytār ceyta pāvaṅkoḷvāṉ <g type="ddanda">.</g>
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· <lem>E<gap reason="lost" quantity="1" unit="character"/>makan</lem>
· <note>The second letter of this word is quite indistinct; <foreign>eṉ makaṉ</foreign>, “my son,” might be conjectured.</note>
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· <p>Hail! In the twenty-sixth year of (<hi rend="italic">the reign of</hi>) the illustrious <hi rend="bold">Kaṉṉara-deva</hi>, I, <hi rend="bold">Nuḷambaṉ Tribhuvanadhīra</hi>,<note><hi rend="italic">I.e.</hi>, “the brave(st) in the three worlds.”</note> gave, with a libation of water, to (<hi rend="italic">the temple of</hi>) <hi rend="bold">Paṉṉapeśvara</hi>, which <hi rend="bold">Paṉṉappai</hi> had caused to be erected on the hill of <hi rend="bold">Śūdāḍupārai</hi> (<hi rend="italic">Śūdāḍupārai-malai</hi>), which is situated in the north of <hi rend="bold">Paṅgaḷa-nāḍu</hi> in <hi rend="bold">Paḍuvūr-koṭṭam</hi>, to be enjoyed as long as the moon and the sun endure, <hi rend="bold">Velūr-pāḍi</hi>, (<hi rend="italic">a village</hi>) of this <hi rend="italic">nāḍu, (which) . . . . . </hi> <hi rend="bold">Nuḷambaṉ</hi> had received from <hi rend="bold">Vīra-Śoṛar</hi>, together with the hill of <hi rend="bold">Śūdāḍupārai</hi>, as a lasting gift.<note><foreign><hi rend="grantha">dhā</hi>rai aṭṭuvittu koṇṭu</foreign> means literally “having received with a libation of water;” compare <foreign>tārai vārttukkoṭukka</foreign>, “to give irrecoverably by pouring water into the hand of the person receiving the gift” (<hi rend="italic">Winslow</hi>).</note> I, <hi rend="bold">Muḍi-melaṉ</hi>,<note><hi rend="italic">I.e.</hi>, “he who wears a crown on (<hi rend="italic">his head</hi>).”</note> the illustrious <hi rend="bold">Pallava-Murāri</hi>, (<hi rend="italic">shall be</hi>) the servant of those who protect this charitable gift. He who injures this charitable gift, shall incur the sin committed by those who commit (<hi rend="italic">a sin</hi>) near the <hi rend="bold">Gaṅgā</hi> (<hi rend="italic">or</hi>) <hi rend="bold">Kumari</hi>.<note><hi rend="bold">Kumari</hi> is the Tamil name of the sacred river near Cape Comorin and corresponds to the Sanskrit <hi rend="bold">Kumārī</hi>, just as the High Tamil form <hi rend="bold">Kāviri</hi> to the Sanskrit <hi rend="bold">Kāvērī</hi>.</note></p>
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