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INSCRIPTIONS
COLLECTED DURING THE YEAR 1906
VIRA
PANDYA
No.
352
(A.
R. No. 352 of 1906)
Tiruchirapalli
District, Pudukottai State, Kudumiyamalai.
Sikhanathasvami
Temple --- On The North Wall Of The Akhilandesvari Shrine.
Tribh.
Virapandyadeva --- 13th Year.
This
is damaged. The details of the date are given as Mesha, su. Sunday,
Hasta probably corresponding to A.D. 1266, April 18. The tithi should
be su.13. The epigraph states that as the temple at Tirunalakkunram (Kudumiyamalai)
in Ko-nadu had gone out of repairs and there was no money for its
renovation, the Nattar of Kana – nadu and those connected with the
temple administration sold a land called the Iluppaikkudi-vayal
at Ammangainallur, which was a tirunamattukkani of the temple, to
a certain devaradiyal of the temple by name Nachchiyar daughter
of Durggaiyandal for 73300 kasu. Kana-nadu is said to be situated
in Kunrusal-nadu a division of Ko-nadu also called
Kadaladaiyadilangalkondasola-valanadu.
No.
353
(A
.R. No. 353 of 1906)
Tiruchirapalli
District, Pudukkottai State, Kudimiyamalai.
Sikhanathasvami
Temple --- On The Same Wall.
Tribh.
Virapandyadeva --- 13th Year.
This
is connected with No. 352 above, and registers the endorsement (kilpunaititu)
of the sale of the land and
acknowledgement of the receipt of the amount from the purchaser
Nachchiyar by the nattar of Konadu and the temple authorities of
Tirunalakkunram.
No.
365
(A.
R. No. 365 of 1906)
Tiruchirapalli
District, Pudukkottai State, Kudumiyamalai.
Sikhanathasvami
Temple --- On The Same Wall.
Tribh.Vira
Pandyadeva --- 7th
Year.
This
is an unfinished epigraph, evidently intended to register a sale of land
fed by three wells at Karandur (village) belonging to Arasugandadevan
Arasagalanjappirandan alias Ayilaiyarayan of Pulvayal (?) in
Vayalaga-nadu a division of Konadu also called
Kadaladaiyadilangaikonda-sola-valanadu, to the temple at Tirunalakkunram
in Kunrusul-nadu.
No.
372
(A.
R. No. 372 of 1906)
Tiruchirapalli
District, Pudukkottai State, Kudumiyamalai
Melaikkoyil
Rock-Cut Temple --- On The Second Gopura.
Right
At Entrance.
Tribh.
Virapandyadeva --- 2nd Year.
This
is an interesting document. It states that the temple treasury of
Tirunalakkunram Udaiya-nayanar had been burgled by priests who stole
away the jewels and cash therefrom. The theft was found out and a
meeting was called of all the (representative) inhabitants of the nadu,
nagaram and gramam of the region, who held an enquiry into
the offair. One of the priests by name Kunran Serundivanapperuman
confessed to have taken 60 pon and shared it with a stonemason.
He also implicated the others in the theft but they denied all knowledge
of the matter. They were thereupon taken to a court at Mattukurichchi
(?) preside
over by a samanta and
ordered to prove their innocence
before the assembled people by holding a red-hot iron in their hands.
The ordeal went against them as their hands were burnt and they had to
confess their guilt. The culprits were all pronounced as Siva drohis
and they were deprived of their holdings at I luppaikkudi, which were
now transferred to the temple as Tirunamattukkani
with the cultivating right thereon (koyil ulavu murruttu).
Such lands as had been sold by them to others were got back on payment
of their cost by the temple and those held on mortgage were recovered
without any compensation. Other private lands in the village were to
continue their payment of the achchuvari and other taxes into the
temple as usual.
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