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CHOLAS
No. 139 secured from Tirukkoḷḷikkāḍu in the Tanjore district gives us
some interesting information regarding land dispute. Unfortunately it is not
complete, portions of it having been lost. We learn from the record that the
sabhā of Mā[rā]yamaṅgalam had been in the enjoyment of two pieces of land
belonging to the temple for a period of 35 years in the interval between the 3rd
year of Uttama-Chōladēva and the 29th year of Rājēndra-Chōḷa I, and that on
the petition of one Annadānayōgi of Tiruvaṇḍurai made to the king, the officer
Rājēndrachōḷa-Mūvēndavēlar was deputed to enquire into the matter and to
resume the land for the temple of Tirukkoḷḷikkāḍuḍaiya-Mahādēva. The
officer accordingly summoned the assembly, and having found after enquiry
that they had actually been in the enjoyment of the lands (evidently without
any authority), imposed upon them a penalty by which they were required to
pay 400 kāśu instead of 200 kāśu received by them previously, evidently as tax-money. As the assembly could not pay this amount to the temple, they
returned these two pieces of land to it for a value of 100 kāśu and for the
balance of 300 kāsu agreed to pay (to the State) in perpetuity all the taxes due
on the lands.
Rajamahendra.
38. Rājamahēndra, the son of Rājēndradēva and the nephew of Vīra-Rājēndra is represented in the collected by a single inscription (No. 80) dated
in his 4th year. Details of date are given which correspond to A.D. 1062,
July 22, Monday. This is the latest date known so far him from his
inscriptions. It states that the assembly of Nelvāyppākkam alias Rājēndraśiṅga-chaturvēdimaṅgalam, a bramadēya in Kūḍal-Ilāraippāḍi, a subdivision of
Rājēndraśōla-vaḷanāḍu, which was evidently adjacent to Māraṅgiyūr where the
inscription was found, endowed some land as dēvadāna to the god for the sacred
bath, for the maintenance of a light and for offerings during one service in the
day, in expiation of the obstruction and harm done to the image of the deity
while on a procession within their boundary.
Kulōttuṅga-Chōḷa I.
39. There are six inscriptions of Kulōttuṅga I ranging between the 30th
and 47th years of his reign. Three of these (Nos. 140, 135 and 130) from
Tirukkoḷḷikkāḍu in the Tanjore district start with rather a curious beginning by
stating that for want of space (on the walls) the king’s panegyrical introduction
has been omitted. A few other inscriptions from the same place belonging to
his successors also begin with the same
remark (e.g. No. 131 belonging to
Kulōttuṅga II and No. 134 of Rājādhirāja II). This is analogous to the phrase Śrīmeykkīrttikkumēl occurring in other inscriptions, where the historical introduction has been omitted on account of its being too well-known at the time to
need a recapitulation in the each and every inscription of a particular king.
Vikrama-Chōḷa.
40. An inscription form Māraṅgiyūr (South Arcot) (No. 90) dated in the
15th year of Vikrama-Chōḷa records a sale of land by the Ūrār of the place to
a certain Kūḍal Kamban Vikramaśōla-Vāṇakularāyan who endowed it to the
temple. Māriṅgūr alias Kūḍal-Ilāḍaippāḍi is said to be situated in Rājarājavaḷanāḍu. In the Ep. Rep. for 1934-35, it was surmised that as the name of
the vaḷanādu in which Arakaṇḍanallūr
was situated is given as Rājarājavaḷanāḍu in an inscription of Kulōttuṅga II, whereas in the records of Vikrama-Chōḷa it was known as Rājēndra-vaḷanāḍu, the change should have been made
after Rājarāja II who possibly came to be associated with the administration
of the kingdom from the 9th year of his father’s reign. But the mention of
Rājarāja-vaḷanāḍu even in the reign of Vikrama-Chōḷa, as stated above, stands
in the way of that supposition, but it does not help us to explain how or when
the name was changed. The surname of the donor of the present record
suggests that he was a person of some importance and possibly a feudatory
chief under the king-belonging to the Bāṇa family.
Kulōttuṅga-Chōḷa II.
41. An inscription of Kulōttuṅga-Chōḷadēva (No. 79) dated in his 2nd
regnal year gives him the title Sarvabhuvanāsraya. This cannot refer to
Kulōttuṅga I who was known as Rājēndra-Chōḷa during the early years of his
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