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                <title>SII 3.114: original edition by H. Krishna Sastri</title>
                <title type="alt">XII.—INSCRIPTIONS OF RAJAKESARIVARMAN, MADIRAIKONDA RAJAKESARIVARMAN OR GANDARADITYA. No. 114.—ON THE SOUTH WALL OF THE CENTRAL SHRINE IN THE DANDISVARA TEMPLE AT VELACHCHERI. No. 315 of 1911.</title>
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                            <p><hi rend="bold">Madiraikoṇḍa Rājakēsarivarman</hi>, in whose 5th year this record is dated, has been identified with <hi rend="bold">Gaṇḍarāditya</hi>, the second son of <hi rend="bold">Parāntaka</hi> I., on the supposition that he must have inherited the title <hi rend="italic">Madiraikoṇḍa</hi> from his father who first bore it and that he should have been the immediate successor of <hi rend="bold">Parāntaka</hi> I. on the Chōḷa throne—the eldest son <hi rend="bold">Rājāditya</hi> having evidently died during the life-time of Parāntaka<note><hi rend="italic">Madras Epigraphical Report</hi> for 1912, Part II, page 64, paragraph 17; the Director-General's <hi rend="italic">Archaeological Survey Report</hi> for 1908-09, page 122.</note> .</p>						
                            
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                <p>Hail ! Prosperity ! In the 5th year of (<hi rend="italic">the reign of</hi>) king <hi rend="bold">Rājakēsarivarman</hi> who took <hi rend="bold">Madirai</hi> (Madura), <hi rend="bold">Dēvakumāra-kramavittaṉ</hi> of <hi rend="bold">Teṉṉūr</hi>, (<hi rend="italic">one</hi>) of the (<hi rend="italic">members of the</hi>) administrative assembly (<hi rend="italic">āḷum-gaṇattār</hi>) of <hi rend="bold">Veḷichchēri</hi> in <hi rend="bold">Kōṭṭūr-nāḍu</hi>, (<hi rend="italic">a subdivision</hi>) of <hi rend="bold">Puliyūr-kōṭṭam</hi>, gave ninety fat sheep, which neither die nor grow old, for burning a lamp as long as the moon and the sun (<hi rend="italic">endure), (in the temple</hi>) of the god <hi rend="bold">Tiruttaṇḍīśvara</hi> of this village. (<hi rend="italic">The assembly of</hi>) all <hi rend="italic">Māhēśvaras</hi> shall protect this charity.</p>
                
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