SII 12.159: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar No. 159. (A.R. No. 312 of 1913). CHIDAMBARAM, CHIDAMBARAM TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT. ON THE NORTH WALL OF THE THIRD PRĀKĀRA IN THE NAṬARĀJA TEMPLE. author of digital edition Emmanuel Francis European Research Council (ERC), grant agreement no 809994 DHARMA Paris, CEIAS DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0159.xml 2019-2026 as per external metadata

This inscription, dated in the 10th year, records an order issued by Śōḻakōṉ for the welfare of his master. It pertains to an exchange of 140-7/8 kuḻi of land in Paḷḷippaḍai alias Vikramaśōḻanallūr in which was situated the temple of Piḍāri Tiruchchiṟṟambala-Mākāḷi, for an equal extent of land (i.e., 141 kuḻi) purchased from the temple of Vāraṇavāśi-Mahādēva, according to the sādhana given by Pāraśavaṉ Tiruchchiṟṟambalamuḍaiyāṉ alias Kanakasabhāpati-paṇḍitaṉ who had the kāṇi-right of the former temple. This land was made tax-free by order of the officer Śōḻākōṉ, for the welfare of Kōpperuñjiṅgadēva. The inscription reveals the existence of a committee called ‘Nilavaravu-kūṭṭap-perumakkaḷ’ which was probably in charge of land income. Some of the temple authorities mentioned here also figure in the time of Rājarāja III and Jaṭāvarman Sundara-Pāṇḍya in a few records of the village.A.R. Nos. 283, 285 and 293 of 1913. The documents connected with this transaction were ordered to be preserved in the temple treasury.

The Piḍāri temple is stated to have been situated on the southern side of the ‘Vikkiramaśōḻaṉ-teṅgu-tiruvīdi’, along which the god (at Chidambaram) was taken in procession to the sea during festival days.

Vikkiramaśōḻanallūr is here called Paḷḷippaḍai, but in No. 275 of 1913 belonging to Jaṭāvarman Sundara-Pāṇḍya I dated in the 14th regnal year it bears the alternative name of Akkaṉ-Paḷḷippaḍai. From this it may perhaps be inferred that the remains of the elder sister (akkaṉ) of Vikrama-Chōḷa were interred here and that the village called after the king as ‘Vikkiramaśōḻanallūr’ was founded at this locality.

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