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INSCRIPTIONS
COLLECTED DURING THE YEAR 1906-07
KODUMBALUR
Virasola-Irukkuvel
No.
129
(Page No 101)
(A.
R. No. 129 o f1907)
Kodumbalur,
Kulattur Taluk, Tiruchirappalli District
Muvarkovil-on
the south wall of the central shrine
This
is a Sanskrit inscription in early Grantha characters.
It gives the genealogy of the family of Kodumbalur Chiefs.
The first line is mutilated and hence the name of the original
ancestor is not known. He is said
to have captured an elephant battalion evidently from some enemy.
In his family was born Paravirajit Viratunga; his son was Ativira,
the unrivalled (anupama); his son was Sanghakrit to whom was born
Nripakesari; his son was Paradurgamarddana, the glorious conqueror of
Vatapi. To him was born
Samarabhirama who killed Chalukki in a battle at Adhirajamangala.
He married a princess was Bhuti who by his prowess in battle
obtained the title Vikramakesari. He
is stated to have made the waters of the Kaveri red
with the blood of the Pallava army slain by him.. He also
conquered Vira-pandya in battle and destroyed one Vanchi-Vel. It is stated that he was living at Kodumbalur with his two wives
Karrali and Varaguna, by the former of whom he had two sons
Parantakavarman and Adityavarman. This
Bhuti Vikramakesari built three shrines in the name of himself and his
two consorts for god Mahesvara at Kodumbalur, and presented a matha
to Mallikarjuna of Madura, a teacher of the Kalamukha sect of Saivas and
eleven villages for feeding 50 ascetics of that sect (every day).
Since
this chief Bhuti Vikramakesari is known from other stone records to be
identical with Tennavan Ilangovel a feudatory of Chola Aditya I, it is
possible that the destruction of the Pallava army claimed by him was in
connection with his liege-lord Aditya’s overthrow of Pallava Aparajita
in battle and his annexation of the latter’s territory sometime before
A.D. 890. In this case
Vira-Pandya over whom also, Buti claims a victory cannot be equated with
his namesake who was killed in fight by Aditya II Karikala (vide An. Rept. For 1908, Part II, para 88), because that event took
place more than 70 years later. He
should have been a contemporary of Parantaka Vira-Narayana and probably
belonging to a collateral Pandya line as surmised by Mr. K.V.S. Aiyar (Q.J.M.S. Vol. XLIII, No.s
3 and 4.
No.
134
(Page No 108)
(A.
R. No. 134 of 1907)
Kodumbalur,
Kulattur Taluk, Tiruchirappalli District
Muchukundesvara
temple—on the same wall
This
seems to be an unusual record-in faulty style-purporting to be an
inscription dated in the 7th year of a Kodumbalur chief
Virasola-Irukkuvel with the Chola title Parakesarivarman prefixed to his
name. It states that on the
representation (made) to the chief) by Alagan Virasola-Anukkamal of the udankuttam
(?), the kanmalur and some
others (not clear) an image of the deity called Akkasalisvaram-Udai[yar]
was consecrated in the temple of Tirumudugaram at Kodumbalur, and
provision was made for its daily whorship and offerings by means of a
gift of a land known as Seral-endal as devadana.
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