INSCRIPTIONS
COLLECTED DURING THE YEAR 1906
JATAVARMAN
PARAKRAMA PANDYA
No.
395
(A.
R. No. 395 of 1906)
Tiruchirapalli
District, Pudukkottai State, Tirumayyam.
Satyagirinatha-Perumal
Temple â On The Same Wall
Jat.
Tribh. Parakrama-Pandyadeva 5+7th Year.
The
details of date given as [Kunbha], ba. 12, Sunday, Uttiradam correspond
to A.D. 1369, February 4, according to Kiel horn (Ep.Ind Vol IX p.225).
This records the sale of the (tenancy) rights over some pieces of land
by Siraladevar Munaiyadaraiyar Makkanayinan of Melur in Kana-nadu alias
Virudaraja-bhayankara-valanadu to one Tiruvudaiyar Piravikkunallar
of Kulamangalam in Melai Iraniyamutta-nadu said to be a tiruvudaiyattam
of Nayanar Alagar, for 200 panam, which was the amount he had to
pay to the latter as âmarriage moneyâ for marrying his sister
Kanaviniyar. He is stated to have also sold his rights over some other
lands for 540 panam presumably for meeting the other expense of
his marriage like the presentation of angabhu shaman to
the bride and similar items. These kaniyatchi lands comprised a tiruvidaiyattam
land of Nayanar Tirumeyya-Malaiyalan, one of Emberumal, and a devadana
land of god Pilliyar of local shrine. The others belonged to private
individuals.
No.
396
(A
.R. No. 396 of 1906)
Tiruchirapalli
District, Pudukkottai State, Tirumayyam.
Satyagirinatha-Perumal
Temple â On The Same Wall.
Jat.
Tribh. Parakrama-Pandyadeva 5+7th Year.
This
registers the alienation in favour of his son Siraladevan of the kaniyatchi
rights with all their appurtenances on a certain specified tiruvidaiyattam
(and other?) lands at Melsarkulam, Devimangalam and Melur, and two
houses in the latter two places, together with a number of slaves, by
Siraladevan Munaiyadaraiyan Makkanayan of Melur in Kana-nadu. As this
person who now makes a gift to his son, of some of his possessions, has
figured in No. 395 above, which is of the same date as the present
inscription, it is to be understood that his contemplated marriage to in
that record was a later and second one.
No.
397
(A.
R. No. 397 of 1906)
Tiruchirapalli
District, Pudukkottai State, Tirumayyam.
Satyagirinatha-Perumal
Temple â On The Same Wall.
This
is dated merely in the cyclic year Raudri without giving its Saka
equivalent. It records a decision of Dalavay Vaiyappa-Nayakkar, the
agent of Timmappa-Nayakkar, and the managers of the temple of Tirumeyyam
Malaiyalan that the income from Irunjiraiyur which was a tiruvikaiyattam
village of the god was to be utilized (in future solely) for the
repairs of the temple.
No.
398
(A.
R. No. 398 of 1906)
Tiruchirapalli
District, Pudukkottai State, Tirumayyam.
Sathyagirinatha-Perumal
Temple â On The Same Wall
The
inscription is damaged. It records the endowment of the village
Kottaiyur renamed Raghunathapuram for the conduct of the early morning
service in the temple of Alagiyameyyar at Tirumeyyam by
Solaiyappa-Pillai [Gan*] gaivadiya-Pillai of Vanaraviran-Madurai, for
the merit of Tirumalai Setupatikatta
Dalavay Raghunatha-Narendra. This is dated in the same year as
No. 394 above, and is additional to the gift mentioned therein. The
donor is said to have purchased the lands at Kottaiyur from the mahajanas
of the place and having reclaimed them from their wild and fallow
condition, settled several Vellalas in the place for their cultivation,
before making this grant to the temple.
No.
399
(A.
R. No. 399 of 1906)
Tiruchirapalli
District, Pudukkottai State, Tirumayyam
Satyagirinatha-Perumal
Temple â On The South Wall Of The Mandapa.
Krishnadeva-Maharaya
â Saka 1444. The details of the date are given as Chitrabhanu,
Uttarayana, Makara â Sankramana. (= AD. 1522, December 28).
The
inscription registers a sarvamanya grant made to the two temples
of Alagiyameyyar (Vishnu) and Tirumeyyadevar (Siva) at Tirumeyyam in
Kana-nadu, by Chellappa Vira Narasingaraya â Nayakkar (The kings
viceroy in the south), of all the lands in the village which had been
lying as Pandaravadai (except those which had been already
endowed as tiruvidaiyattam or devadana). As was the case
with regard to all lands possessed by these two temples in common, the
income derived from the present lands was also to be shared by them in
the proportion of three and two respectively.
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