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SII 12.39: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar – DANTIVARMAN. 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.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: 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.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

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SII 12.42: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar – DANTIVARMAN. No. 42. (A.R. No. 283 of 1916). TOṆḌŪR, GINGEE TALUK, SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT. ON A BOULDER IN A FIELD NEAR THE ‘VIṆṆAMPĀṞAI-ROCK’.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: This inscription1 is 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.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0042.

SII 12.43: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar – DANTIVARMAN. 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.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: 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.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0043.

SII 12.44: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar – DANTIVARMAN. 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.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: 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.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0044.

SII 12.45: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar – Nandivarman III. 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.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: 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 Vichchūr1 in 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.2 Since 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.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0045.

SII 12.46: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar – Nandivarman III. No. 46. (A.R. No. 347 of 1914). KUNNĀṆḌĀRKŌYIL, PUDUKKOTTAI STATE. AT THE SOUTH END OF THE ROCK-CUT SHRINE IN THE PARVATAGIRĪŚVARA TEMPLE.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: 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.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0046.

SII 12.47: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar – Nandivarman III. 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.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: 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).

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0047.

SII 12.48: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar – Nandivarman III. 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.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: 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.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0048.

SII 12.50: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar – Nandivarman III. No. 50. (A.R. No. 406 of 1905). KĀVĒRIPPĀKKAM, ARKONAM TALUK, NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT. AT THE ENTRANCE INTO THE GŌPURA OF THE MUKTĪŚVARA TEMPLE.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: 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.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0050.

SII 12.51: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar – Nandivarman III. 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.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: 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.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0051.

SII 12.52: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar – Nandivarman III. 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.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: 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.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0052.

SII 12.53: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar – Nandivarman III. 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.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: 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.1 Chūtavana mentioned in the Udayēndiram plates of Nandivarman is probably identical with Māṅgāḍu.2

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0053.

SII 12.54: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar – Nandivarman III. No. 54. (A.R. No. 8 of 1934-35). PAḌŪR, CHINGLEPUT TALUK AND DISTRICT. ON A SLAB SET UP IN THE STREET CALLED ‘MĒṬṬUTTERUVU’.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: 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.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0054.

SII 12.55: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar – Nandivarman III. 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.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: 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.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0055.

SII 12.56: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar – Nandivarman III. 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.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: 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.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0056.

SII 12.57: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar – Nandivarman III. 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.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: 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.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0057.

SII 12.58: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar – Nandivarman III. 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.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: 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.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

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SII 12.61: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar – NRIPATUNGAVARMAN. No. 61. (A.R. No. 122 of 1928-29). ON THE SAME WALL.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: 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,1 though 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,2 dated in the 23rd year of Nṛipatuṅga.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0061.

SII 12.62: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar – NRIPATUNGAVARMAN. 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.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: 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.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0062.

SII 12.63: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar – NRIPATUNGAVARMAN. 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.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: 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.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0063.

SII 12.64: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar – NRIPATUNGAVARMAN. 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.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: 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. 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).

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0064.

SII 12.65: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar – NRIPATUNGAVARMAN. No. 65. (A.R. No. 417 of 1912). MARUDĀḌU, WANDIWASH TALUK, NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT. ON A SLAB LYING NEAR THE BIG IRRIGATION TANK.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: 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.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0065.

SII 12.66: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar – NRIPATUNGAVARMAN. 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.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: 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.1 It may be mentioned that Kāḍupaṭṭi-Muttaraiyar figures in a record from Piḷḷaipāḷaiyam2 near Conjeeveram in the reign of Dantivarman. Nṛipatuṅga’s queen, according to No. 64 above from the same place, was Kāḍavaṉ-Mādēviyār, also known as Pṛithivīmāṇikkam,3 and 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.4

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0066.

SII 12.67: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar – NRIPATUNGAVARMAN. 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.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: 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’1 borne 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.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0067.

SII 12.68: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar – NRIPATUNGAVARMAN. No. 68. (A.R. No. 258 of 1912). PARAMĒŚVARAMAṄGALAM, MADURANTAKAM TALUK, CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT. ON A SLAB NEAR THE GAṆĒŚA IMAGE OUTSIDE THE KAILĀSANĀTHA TEMPLE.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: 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. 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 year1 which closely resembles the present inscription in its writing, this epigraph also may be assigned to the reign of the same king.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0068.

SII 12.69: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar – NRIPATUNGAVARMAN. No. 69. (A.R. No. 257 of 1912). ON THE BACK SIDE OF THE SAME WALL.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: 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 Maṇṇaikkuḍi1 and 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.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0069.

SII 12.70: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar – NRIPATUNGAVARMAN. 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.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: 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).

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0070.

SII 12.71: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar – NRIPATUNGAVARMAN. 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.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: 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.1

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0071.

SII 12.72: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar – NRIPATUNGAVARMAN. No. 72. (A.R. No. 175 of 1930). PIḶḶAIPĀKKAM, SRIPERUMBUDUR TALUK, CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT. ON A SLAB BUILT INTO THE STEPS OF THE KĀḶĪ TEMPLE.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: 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.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0072.

SII 12.73: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar – NRIPATUNGAVARMAN. 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.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: 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.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0073.

SII 12.74: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar – NRIPATUNGAVARMAN. 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.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: 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.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0074.

SII 12.75: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar – NRIPATUNGAVARMAN. 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.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: 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,1 son 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.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0075.

SII 12.76: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar – NRIPATUNGAVARMAN. 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.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: 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.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0076.

SII 12.77: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar – NRIPATUNGAVARMAN. No. 77. (A.R. No. 414 of 1923). PĒRAṆAKKĀVŪR, CONJEEVERAM TALUK, CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT.

Emmanuel Francis.

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

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0077.

SII 12.78: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar – NRIPATUNGAVARMAN. 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.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: 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.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0078.

SII 12.79: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar – NRIPATUNGAVARMAN. 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.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: 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.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0079.

SII 12.80: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar – NRIPATUNGAVARMAN. 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.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: 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.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0080.

SII 12.81: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar – NRIPATUNGAVARMAN. No. 81. (A.R. No. 172-A of 1929-30). ON THE SAME BASE.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: 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.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0081.

SII 12.82: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar – NRIPATUNGAVARMAN. 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.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: 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.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0082.

SII 12.83: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar – NRIPATUNGAVARMAN. No. 83. (A.R. No. 108 of 1933-34). ACHCHARAVĀKKAM, CHINGLEPUT TALUK AND DISTRICT. ON A SLAB LYING NEAR THE AGASTĪŚVARA TEMPLE.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: 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.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0083.

SII 12.84: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar – 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.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: 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.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0084.

SII 12.85: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar – APARAJITAVARMAN. 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.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: 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.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0085.

SII 12.86: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar – APARAJITAVARMAN. No. 86. (A.R. No. 31 of 1912). SATYAVĒḌU, PONNERI TALUK, CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT. ON A STONE LYING IN THE COURTYARD OF THE MĀTAṄGĒŚVARA TEMPLE.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: 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 Tirumataṅgaṉpaḷḷi1 in Tekkūr-nāḍu, a subdivision of Paiyyūr-Iḷaṅkōṭṭam, by Kumārandai Kuṟumbarādittan2 alias Kāḍupaṭṭippēraraiyaṉ who is stated to have belonged to Śēra-nāḍu. The term puravu3 may 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.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0086.

SII 12.87: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar – APARAJITAVARMAN. 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.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: 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.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0087.

SII 12.88: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar – APARAJITAVARMAN. No. 88. (A.R. No. 161 of 1912). ON ANOTHER SLAB IN THE SAME PLACE.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: 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).

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0088.

SII 12.89: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar – APARAJITAVARMAN. No. 89. (A.R. No. 32 of 1912). SATYAVĒḌU, PONNERI TALUK, CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT. ON A STONE IN THE ARDHA-MAṆḌAPA OF THE MĀTAṄGĒŚVARA TEMPLE.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: 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.1

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

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SII 12.8: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar – MAHENDRAVARMAN I. 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.’

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: 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.

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu, Undetermined.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

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SII 12.90: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar – APARAJITAVARMAN. 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.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: 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 Kampavarman1 while 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.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

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SII 12.91: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar – APARAJITAVARMAN. No. 91. (A.R. No. 163 of 1912). ON ANOTHER SLAB IN THE SAME PLACE.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: 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 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.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

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SII 12.92: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar – APARAJITAVARMAN. No. 92. (A.R. No. 159 of 1912). ON ANOTHER SLAB IN THE SAME PLACE.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: 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.

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

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