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South Indian Inscriptions


 

PART-III

NOTES AND FRAGMENTS

IV. IN THE GOPURA AT TIRUMALAI NEAR POLUR

No.141. INSIDE THE GOPURA AT TIRUMALAI NEAR POLUR, ON THE BASE[1]

The inscription is a fragment, dated in some year of Rajaraja-deva[2].  In the second line the word Sora-kon.  “the Chola king,” occurs.

No.142. ON THE BASE OF THE SOUTH WALL OF THE AMMAIAPPESVARA TEMPLE AT PADAVEDU

The beginning of both lines of this inscription is buried underground.  From that part, which I have copied, it appears that the inscription refers to some gift (manya, i.e., sarvamanya).  At the beginning of the second line, the word padaividu occurs in the plural and seems to be used in the sense of “encampments.”  The inscription ends with “the signature of Jayankonda-Sora-Brahma-rayan”; the same name is borne by a village-accountant in a Tirumalai inscription.

No.143. ON THE NORTH WALL OF THE SOMANATHESVARA TEMPLE  AT PADAVEDU

This inscription is an incorrect duplicate of the first four lines of No.81, above.


[1] There is a fragment of another archaic inscription in two lines on the base to the right of the gopura.

[2] See the introduction of the Poygai inscriptions, p.86, above

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