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Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: In the 3rd year of Pārthivēndrādivarman, who took the head of Vīra-Pāṇḍya, the assembly of Uttaramēru-chaturvēdimaṅgalam declared certain lands of the goddess Durgā-Bhaṭṭārakī of that village to be tax-free, on receiving as pūrvāchāram the interest which accrued to that temple both from the documents held in the name of the goddess and from those held in the name of the assembly of Dāmōdarachchēri as, perhaps, its trustee.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0159.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: This inscription is dated in the 29th year of the reign of the Chōḷa king Rājarāja I. and opens with the usual historical introduction, where, however, this inscription and No. 16 read Taḍīga-pāḍi instead of Taḍigai-pāḍi or Taḍiya-vaḻi.1
The inscription records that the citizens of Mēṟpāḍi granted to the Aṟiñjigai-Īśvara temple 5, 136(1/2) kuḻi of land, which was bounded in the east by the river Nugā, and in the north by the Chōḷēndrasiṁhēśvara temple. Nugā is evidently the original name of the river Nīvā (or Poṉṉai), on the western bank of which Mēlpāḍi is situated, and Chōḷēndrasiṁhēśvara is the ancient designation of the Sōmanāthēśvara temple.2.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0015.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: This again is a transaction made by the big assembly of Uttaramērūr-chaturvēdimaṅgalam made in the 3rd year of Pārthivendrādivarman who took the head of Vīra-Pāṇḍya. It consisted in making tax-free certain lands of the temple of Kurukshētradēva, on receiving pūrvāchāram from Śandiraṉ Eḻunūṟṟuvaṉ alias Nuḷamba-Māyilaṭṭi, residing in Kandapurattupēṭṭai. This individual is known from No. 24 of 1898 printed below to have been a merchant of Raṇavīrappāḍi in Conjeeveram. It is doubtful therefore, if Kandapurattupēṭṭai was not another name of Raṇavīrappāḍi. Kurukshētradēva is not a familiar name in Hindu theogony but might refer to Kṛishṇa who played the chief part in the great war of Kurukshētra and was the author of the famous Bhagavadgītā.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0160.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: This document records a gift of land made by certain Brāhmaṇas in the 3rd year of Pārthivendrādhipativarman for commenting upon, i.e., explaining, the science of grammar (Vyākaraṇa-śāstra).
In Tiruvoṟṟiyūr near Madras, a similar endowment was made during the time of king Kulōttuṅga III. for explaining the science of grammar and a hall called vyākaraṇamaṇḍapa was specially built for that purpose1 .
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0161.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: This record states that in the 3rd year of Pārthivēndrādhipativarman who took the head of Vīra-Pāṇḍya, certain lands belonging to the village which did not fetch any tax, were given free of taxes by the village assembly to a temple at Uttaramērūr-chaturvēdimaṅgalam.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0162.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: This is a record of the lands owned by the temple of Tirumāliruñjōlai at Uttaramēru-chaturvēdimaṅgalam, drawn up in the 3rd year of Pārthivēndrādhipativarman who took the head of Vīra-Pāṇḍya.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0163.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: This inscription records that in the 3rd year of king Pārthivēndrādhipativarman who took the head of Vīra-Pāṇḍya, certain lands were given by the great assembly of Uttaramēlūr-chaturvēdimaṅgalam to the god Mahāvishṇu of the Sōmanēri temple of Uttaramallūr, for lamps, offerings and worship.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0164.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: This mutilated inscription dated in the 3rd year of [Pār]thivēndravarman mentions the Brahman assembly (sabhā) of Ilai-Vallam in Dāmar-kōṭṭam and the measure called Ūragattu-niṉṟār, by which oil was evidently measured out for maintaining a lamp in the temple of Gōvindapāḍi-Āḷvār. Ūragattu-niṉṟār must refer to the Vishṇu temple of Ulagaḷanda-Perumāḷ at Conjeeveram whose name according to the Vaishṇava scriptures (Nālāyiraprabandham) was Ūragam.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0165.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: This record is dated in the 3rd year of Pārthivēndravarman and registers a gift of money by the merchants for a sleeping cot presented by queen Arumoḻinaṅgai to the temple of Tiruvūral-Āḷvār. Mention has been made, in Nos. 49 and 52 of 1898 printed below, of Tribhuvana-Mahādēviyār, another queen of Pārthivēndra. Villavaṉ-Mādēviyār still another queen of his, is mentioned in No. 193 below.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0166.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: This inscription is dated in the 3rd year of Pārthivēndrādhipativarman who took the head of Vīra-Pāṇḍya, and records a gift of land to the temple of Ayyaṉ, the great Śāstā of Uttaramēru-chaturvēdimaṅgalam, for current expenses, a perpetual lamp, śrībali and archchanābhōga. Ayyaṉ or Śāstā is a popular village god; see South-Indian Gods and Goddesses, page 229 f.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0167.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: This document of the 3rd year of Pārthivēndrādhipativarman who took the head of Vīra-Pāṇḍya, registers a gift of land for worship and offerings to Mahādēva (Śiva) of the temple at Kumaṇpāḍi, a hamlet of Uttaramallūr.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0168.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: The inscription records that in the 3rd year of Pārthivēndrādivarman who took the head of Vīra-Pāṇḍya, the members of the assembly of Uttaramēlūrchaturvēdimaṅgalam made a gift of land to the goddess Jyēshṭhā1 at Kumaṇpāḍi, a suburb of this village, for the maintenance of worship and sacred offerings.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0169.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: The date of this inscription is the same as that of No. 15. The inscription records that the citizens of Mēṟpāḍi granted to the Aṟiñjigai-Īśvara temple the hamlet of Pulikkuṉṟam on the west of the river Nugā,1 on the north of Kukkaṉūr, on the east of Teṉkoḷḷi, and on the south of Pālainellūr. Pulikkuṉṟam itself is not found on the map; but its southern boundary, Kukkaṉūr,2 is situated on the road from Tiruvallam to Mēlpāḍi, and its western and northern boundaries, Teṉkoḷḷi and Pālainellūr, are probably the modern Tempalle and Śrīpādanellūr.3
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0016.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: The assembly of Uttaramērūr-chaturvēdimaṅgalam received the usual pūrvāchāram from Śandiraṉ Eḻunūṟṟuvaṉ Nuḷamba-Māyilaṭṭi, a merchant of Raṇavīrappāḍi in Kāñchīpura and exempted taxes on certain lands which they had given to a priest of the temple, in the fourth year (of the reign) of Pārthivēndrādhipativarman who took the head of Vīra-Pāṇḍya.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0170.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: This record is dated in the 4th year of Pārthivēndrādhipativarman who took the head of Vīra-Pāṇḍya and registers a gift of land to the temple of Subrahmaṇya-bhaṭṭāra at Uttaramēru-chaturvēdimaṅgalam by Śandiraṉ Eḻunūṟṟuvaṉ alias Nuḷamba Māyilaṭṭi, a merchant of Raṇavīrappāḍi in Kāñchīpura. Raṇavīrappāḍi is already known from the Madras Museum plates of Uttama-Chōḷa to have been a hamlet of Kāñchīpura (Conjeeveram). The donor is mentioned in other inscriptions of Uttaramallūr in connexion with several other charities in that place.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0171.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: This inscription records that in the 4th year of king Pārthivēndrādhipativarman who took the head of the Pāṇḍya (king), a gift of land was made by a merchant for offerings to the image of Gaṇapati, in the temple of (the goddess) Kōnērinaṅgai at Kumaṇpāḍi, a hamlet of Uttaramēru-chaturvēdimaṅgalam.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0172.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: This record registers a gift of 96 sheep for burning a perpetual lamp near the goddess Durgā-Bhaṭāri in the temple of Tiruvūral-Āḻvār at Takkōlam in the 4th year of Pārthivēndravarman, by a native of Mārāyapāḍi. The latter territorial division also called Mahārājappāḍi or Mārjavāḍi comprised the eastern portion of the Kolar district and parts of the Cuddapah and Chittoor districts.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0173.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: This fragmentary record is of special interest as it is written in archaic Tamil characters. It refers to Kalikēsari-chaturvēdimaṅgalam, a dēvadāna village in Puḻaḷkōṭṭam, which may probably be the surname of Tirumullaivāyil where the inscription is found. The king Pārthivēndravarman mentioned here is also perhaps different from and earlier than the Pārthivēndrādhipativarman to whom the records of this group belong.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0174.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: This record supplies interesting information about a bond dealing with money transactions. It states that two brothers having lent money to the villagers of Mīyvaḻi Tāyaṉūr, in the fifth year of Pārthivēndravarman, received their dues back with interest but could not so endorse on the original document which was now lost. Hence they declared that the document, if it should ever come out, must be considered ‘a dead document,’ i.e., become null and void.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0175.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: This inscription registers a gift of 96 sheep by Kāḷi Naṅgai, a native of Mīyvaḻi-Tāyaṉūr, for burning a lamp in the temple of Mahādēva of Taṇakkamalai, in the 5th year of Pārthivēndravarman.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0176.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: In the 5th year of Pārthivēndrādhipativarman who took the head of Vīra Pāṇḍya, the members of the assembly of Uttaramēru-chaturvēdimaṅgalam gave certain lands in their village as Vishaharabhōga for the maintenance of a physician who removed (snake ?) poison. Inasmuch as at the end of line 5 it is stipulated that he who has obtained the order of the members of the assembly shall alone enjoy the land, it is probable that the lands in question were assigned only to experts in that profession.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0177.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: The record states that in the 5th year of king Pārthivēndravarman a certain Nīlakaṇḍaraiyaṉ Aṇṇāvaṉ Nāṭṭaḍigaḷ gave, on the occasion of a solar eclipse, 1 1/2 paṭṭi of land to the god Mahādēva of Taṇakkamalai for conducting śrībali, on behalf of Nīlagaṅgaraiyaṉ Aṇṇāvaṉ Nāṭṭaḍigal who was perhaps his brother. Śrībali is a ceremony performed by sounding drums and throwing cooked rice and flowers all round the temple. The inscription provides for five men to sound the different musical instruments used on the occasion.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0178.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: This inscription records a transaction made in the 5th year of king Pārthivēndrādivarman by the assembly of Uttaramēru-chaturvēdimaṅgalam, making certain lands granted to the temple of Tiruvuṉṉiyūr, for tiruchcheṉṉaḍai and a sacred lamp, tax-free.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0179.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: This inscription is written in beautiful florid characters, resembling those of the large Leyden grant, but mixed with letters of the usual type, especially after line 12. It is dated in the same year as Nos. 15 and 16, and records the grant of a lamp to the Aṟiñjīśvara temple at Mēṟpāḍi.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0017.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: This inscription records a gift of gold for burning a sacred lamp, in the 6th year of king Parakēsari Vēndrādivarman, by a resident of Talaiśayanapuram alias Taiyūr.
Vēndrādivarman is probably the same as Pārthivēndrādivarman. The adjunct Parakēsari shows that he was either a Chōḷa king or a Chōḷa subordinate. The title may further enable us to connect Pārthivēndrādivarman with Āditya (II.)-Karikāla, which is not very unlikely.
Talaisāyanam is the name of the Vishṇu temple at Mahābalipuram referred to in the Nālāyiraprabandham. Taiyūr is No. 52 on the Madras survey map of the Chingleput taluk, about 12 miles north-west of Mahābalipuram.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0180.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: This record registers that in the 6th year of king Pārthivēndravarman the assembly of Kuṟaṭṭūr alias Parāntaka-chaturvēdimaṅgalam sold 1,350 kuḻi of mañjikkam land to the temple of Tiruvalidāyil and made it tax-free.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0181.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: This inscription records a gift of land by Śandraṉ Eḻunūṟṟuvaṉ alias Nuḷamba Māyilaṭṭi, a resident of the hamlet of Raṇavīrappāḍi in Kāñchīpuram, to the temple of Tiruvuṉṉaūr (i.e., Tiruvuṉṉiyūr of No. 179 above) at Uttaramēru-chaturvēdimangalam, in the 6th year of Pārthivēndrādhipativarman, who took the head of the Pāṇḍya (king).
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0182.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: In the 7th year of (the reign of) king Pārthivē[ndrādhipativarman] who took the head of the Pāṇḍya (king), the assembly of [Uttaramēru-cha]turvēdimaṅgalam declared some lands of the temple of Kurukshētra at that village tax-free, on receiving pūrvāchāram from a certain Ammāṭṭi Śiṟṟambalavaṉ of Perumpaṭṭaṉam in Paṭṭaṉa-nāḍu. The temple of Kurukshētra has been already referred to in No. 160 above.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0183.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: This record registers a gift of sheep for a lamp to the temple of Tiruvūṟal-Āḻvār by a certain Kumaraḍi-naṅgai in the 7th year of king Pārthivēndrādhipativarman.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0184.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: This inscription registers a gift of 93 sheep for burning a perpetual lamp in the temple of Varāhadēva at Tiruviḍavandai by a native of Talaiśayaṉapuram alias Taiyyūr, in the 8th year of king Pārthivēndrādivarman.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0185.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Two residents of Talaiśayaṉapuram alias Taiyūr made a present of fifteen kaḻañju of gold to the image of Maṇavāḷapperumāḷ which they had caused to be cast, for the temple of Varāhasvāmin at Tiruviḍavandai (the modern Tiruvaḍandai). The assembly of the village received the money in the 8th year of king Rājamārāyar and agreed to pay an annual interest of 56 kāḍi of paddy on that amount.
Rājamārāyar who took the head of Vīra-Pāṇḍya could be no other than Pārthivēndravarman. No. 152 above, from Uttaramallūr, calls the same king Partma-Mahārāja who took the head of Vīra-Pāṇḍya.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0186.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: In the 9th year of king Pārthivēndravarman, the residents (ūrōm) of Aṇai-Akkaraippūdūr made tax-free certain lands which had been already dedicated to the śrīkōyil of Ādityadēva in that village, which was owned by Vaikhānasaṉ Kalinīkki-bhaṭṭa.
We have here the residents (ūrōm) taking the place of sabhaiyōm of other inscriptions. A technical distinction was perhaps made between these two bodies.1
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0187.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: This inscription is dated in the 9th year of Pārthivēndrādhipativarman and records a gift of land as taṇṇippaṭṭi1 by the residents of Kāṭṭūr to the ambalam constructed by Paṭṭaiyaṉār, the chief superintendent of the order of perundaram.2
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0188.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: It is recorded in this inscription that in the 9th year of king Pārthivendrādhipativarman, a certain Lōkamahārāya1 gave 90 sheep for a perpetual lamp to the temple of Lōkamahārāya-Tiruchchiṟṟambalattāḷvār at Maḻalaimaṅgalam in Maṇaiyir-kōṭṭam.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0189.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: This inscription is dated in the 9th year of the reign of Parakēsarivarman, alias Rājēndra-Chōḷadēva. It records that certain shepherds of Mēṟpāḍi pledged themselves to supply ghee for a lamp in the Aṟiñjīśvara temple. This declaration was made before Lakuḷīśvara-Paṇḍita, the head of a Maṭha connected with the temple. The name Lakuḷīśvara is interesting, because it suggests that the Maṭha at Mēṟpāḍi was a branch establishment of the Lakulīśa-Pāśupatas of Kārōhaṇa in Gujarāt, who are referred to in the Cintra praśasti.1 The inscription ends with the signature of a local merchant, who may have been the donor of the lamp.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0018.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: This record belongs to the 10th year of Pārthivēndrādhi[pati]varman and registers a gift of 92 kaḻañju of gold for providing paddy for sacred offerings to the image of Kaligai-viṭaṅka in the temple of Tiruvūṟaldēva, by the donor mentioned in No. 184 above. The gold was received by the assembly of Rājamārttāṇḍachaturvēdimaṅgalam, a hamlet of Tiruvūṟalpuram (i.e., Takkōlam) in Maṇaiyir-kōṭṭam and fetched an interest of 92 kāḍi of paddy per year.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0190.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: This document records that the assembly of Veḷichchēri exempted taxes on a land granted for the sacred daily offering to the Saptamātṛis1 of this village, by a native of [Ma]ḻa-nāḍu in Śōḻa-nāḍu. The worship of the Seven Mothers and the designation of the priests who called themselves Mātṛiśivas deserve special attention.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0191.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: This inscription records a gift of 96 sheep for a lamp to the temple of the prosperous Gōvindapāḍi, made in the 10th year of Pārthivēndrādivarman, who took the head of Vīra-Pāṇḍya.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0192.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: This document records that the village assembly of Uttaramēru-chaturvēdimaṅgalam or Uttaramallūr-chaturvēdimaṅgalam freed from taxes certain lands given to an image, which Villavaṉ-Mahādēviyār,1 queen of Pārthivēndrādhipativarman, had set up in the temple of the god of Tiruvayōdhyai in this village. The members of the assembly received pūrvāchāram2 from the queen before they made the lands tax-free.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0193.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: In this record we are informed that in the 12th year and the 326th day of the reign of Pārthivēndrādhipativarman certain lands were given by queen Tribhuvaṉa-Mahādēviyār for sounding drums at the Śrībali ceremony and at the waking up of the images from bed (paḷḷi-eḷuchchi) in the temple of Śrīveli-Vishṇugṛiha which had been constructed by Koṅgaraiyar at Uttaramēru-chaturvēdimaṅgalam.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0194.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: This inscription records that in the 13th year of king Pārthivēndrādhipativarman, his queen Tribhuvana-Mahādēviyār gave 192 sheep for two perpetual lamps to be burnt in the shrine of Veḷḷaimūrtti-Perumānaḍigaḷ in the temple of Koṅgaraiyar at Uttaramēru-chaturvēdimaṅgalam. We know from the previous inscription that this Koṅgaraiyar built at Uttaramēru-chaturvēdimaṅgalam the Vishṇu temple named Śrīveli-Vishṇugṛiha.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0195.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: The inscription states that in the 13th year of king Pārthivēndrādivarman, Śiṅgaḷa Vīranāraṇaṉ, a native of the Chōḷa country, made a gift of 90 sheep for burning a perpetual lamp in the temple of Mahādēva (Śiva) at Tirumullaivāyil, a dēvadāna village in Puḻaṟ-kōṭṭam.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0196.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: This record, which is dated in the 13th year of Pārthivēndrādivarman who took the head of Vīra-Pāṇḍya, registers a gift of twenty-five kaḻañju of gold marked and weighed by the standard weight (dharmakaṭṭaḷai-tuḷai-niṟai) for burning two lamps in the temple of Śiva at Tirumālpēṟu. The assembly of Paṭṭālam alias Eḻunūṟṟuva-chaturvēdimaṅgalam in Dāmar-nāḍu accepted the gold and agreed to maintain the two lamps from the interest thereon. It is interesting to note that the lamps were the gift of Vijjavai-Mahādēviyār or Vajjavaiyār who was related to Nandivarman Kāḍupaṭṭigaḷ, perhaps, as his queen. Nandivarman Kāḍupaṭṭigaḷ is clearly a Pallava name; but we cannot definitely identify the king nor fix his relationship to the ruling sovereign Pārthivēndrādivarman.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0197.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Maṉṉaṉ Kaṇṇaṉ alias Kāmāmōga-Vāraṇappēraraiyaṉ, an elephant mahout of king Pārthivēndrādivarman, purchased in the 13th year of the king some land at Śiṟṟiyāṟṟūr from the temple of Gōvindapāḍi and assigned it for feeding a Brāhmaṇa in the maṭha which was evidently attached to that temple.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0198.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: This record of the 2nd year of king Parakēsarivarman who took the head of Vīra-Pāṇḍya, has to be attributed to Āditya (II.)—Karikāla, whose defeat of the Pāṇḍya king while he was yet a boy is mentioned in the Tiruvālaṅgāḍu plates printed in the sequel. His father Sundarachōḷa-Parāntaka II. is already described as having driven a Pāṇḍya king into the forest. This must be the early Vīra-Pāṇḍya whose Vatteḻuttu inscriptions are found in the Tinnevelly district and in which he claims in his turn to have taken the head of the Chōḷa. Nandivarma-maṅgalam was evidently an earlier name of the modern Uyyakkoṇḍāṉ Tirumalai and must have been so called after the Pallava king Nandivarman. The temple of Kaṟkuḍi is mentioned in the hymns of the Dēvāram.1
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0199.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: This inscription is dated in the 14th year of the reign of the Chōḷa king Rājarāja I. and mentions the conquest of Kuḍamalai-nāḍu and of the Śeḻiyas (i.e. Pāṇḍyas) in addition to those recorded in No. 3 of this volume. Instead of Taḍigai-pāḍi, Taḍīga-pāḍi or Taḍiya-vaḻi1 it reads Taḍiya-pāḍi. The king is designated by two different names, viz. Rājarāja-Rājakēsarivarman and Mummuḍi-Chōḷadēva. The second name means ‘the Chōḷa king (who wears) three crowns,’ viz. those of the Chōḷa, Pāṇḍya and Chēra kingdoms.2
The inscription records that Īrāyiravaṉ Pallavayaṉ, a well-known officer of Rājarāja I. and Rājēndra-Chōḷa I.,3 made over 15 kaḻañju of gold to the assembly of Tiruvallam,4 who, in return, assigned 1,000 kuḻi of land in the hamlet of Vāṇasamudram near Tiruvallam to the Chōḷēndrasiṁhēśvara (now Sōmanāthēśvara) temple at Rājāśrayapuram (i.e. Mēlpāḍi). This land was made over to an inhabitant of Rājāśrayapuram, who had to supply ghee for a lamp in the temple.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0019.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: This inscription is dated in the 23rd year of the reign of the ancient Chōḷa king Rāja-kēsarivarman.1 It records that a certain Brahmādhirāja (ll. 4 and 11) deposited 200 kaḻañju of gold with the villagers, and that the latter pledged themselves to apply the interest of this sum to the feeding of twelve learned Brāhmaṇas.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0001.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: This record, which belongs to the 3rd year of the reign of king Parakēsarivarman who took the head of the Pāṇḍya, registers a grant of land by purchase by the chief Śiṟṟiṅgaṇuḍaiyāṉ Kōyilmayilai alias Parāntaka Mūvēndavēḷāṉ for expounding the system of Prabhākara. This teacher was the founder of a new school of Mīmāmsā philosophy which was greatly popular for some time in the south. The record under review is itself strong evidence of the popularity of the creed. A Telugu book called Sakalārthasāgara makes Prabhākara, one of the pupils of Kumārila-Bhaṭṭa. He was also widely known as Prabhākara-guru and was the teacher of Śālikanātha. Consequently Prabhākara’s period must have been about the beginning of the 8th century A.D. See also Madras Epigraphical Report for 1912, page 65.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0200.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: This record is dated in the 4th year of Parakēsarivarman who took the head of the Pāṇḍya king. The donor was a woman-servant who was living in a quarter of Tañjāvūr and was connected with queen Uḍaiyapirāṭṭiyār Kiḻāṉaḍigaḷ, mother of Āṉaimēṟṟuñjiṉār. This name Āṉaimēṟṟuñjiṉār has been identified with prince Rājāditya, one of the brothers of Āditya-Karikāla’s grandfather Ariñjaya (Madras Epigraphical Report for 1912, page 62).
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0201.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: The record is dated in the 4th year of the reign of Parakēsarivarman who took the head of the Pāṇḍya king and provides for the dance called Āriyakkūttu by Kīrttimaṟaikkāḍaṉ alias Tiruvēḷai-aṟaichchākkai, in the temple of Tiruviḍaimarudil. The theatrical hall where the temple servants, the merchants and the king’s officer Kōyilmayilai alias Parāntaka Mūvēndavēḷāṉ met together to decide this question appears to suggest that the Āriyakkūttu dance must have been a regular dramatic performance in which dancing and singing were evidently given a prominent place. Śākkaikūttu which is referred to in some other inscriptions of the time of Rājēndra-Chōḷa was evidently another variety of a dramatic dance (see Madras Epigraphical Report for 1915, page 98, paragraph 27).
Āriyam and Tamiḻ are mentioned as the two recognised varieties of dance, in the commentary of Aḍiyārkkunallār on text lines 12-25 of Chapter III of Śilappadigāram (see Mahā. V. Swaminatha Ayyar’s edition, page 63). That these must have been also accompanied by music is inferred from a reference made to these very two terms in a Tanjore inscription of Rājarāja I. (South-Indian Inscriptions, Vol. II, page 299, sections 428-492).
The king Parakēsarivarman who took the head of the Pāṇḍya king must evidently be Āditya (II.)—Karikāla, the son of Sundara-Chōḷa Parāntaka II. The name Śiṟṟiṅgaṇ-Uḍaiyāṉ Kōyilmayilai alias Parāntaka Mūvēndavēḷāṉ appears in No. 200 above. His name also occurs frequently in the records of Uttama-Chōḷa Madhurāntaka as Madhurāntaka-Mūvēndavēḷāṉ.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
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