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INSCRIPTIONS
COLLECTED DURING THE YEAR 1906-07]
POTTAPI-CHODAS
(TELUGU CHODA)
Betarasa
No.
583
(Page No 406)
(A.
R. No. 583 of 1907)
Nandaluru,
Rajampet Taluk, Cuddapah District
Saumyanatha
temple – on the 2nd tier of the same base
[Vikrama-Chola].
Year 3 : 1120-21 A.D.
The
inscription is built in at the beginning and is also incomplete.
The introduction is that beginning with words Pumadu
Punara. It is dated in Saka
104[2], Sarvari, Chittirai-Vishu, when Mahamandalesvara Bettarasa was
ruling Pottappi-nadu. The purport
of the record is not clear except that the chief founded an agrahara
for the success of the king's arms. Some
reference is made to a parigraha (seizure ?) in which two or three minor
chieftains seem to have been involved.
Vimaladitya
No.
579
(Page No 397)
(A.
R. No. 579 of 1907)
Nandaluru,
Rajampet Taluk, Cuddapah District
Saumyanatha
temple – on the 2nd and 3rd tiers of the north
base and
on
the three tiers of the west base of the same mandapa
Vikrama-Chola.
Year 8, Saka 1047 Visvavasu : A.D. 1125-26
The
inscription begins with the introduction Pumadu
Punara etc.
This registers the gift of the village Mannur alias
Vikramasola-chaturvedimangalam in Merpakkai-nadu, a division of
Adhirajendramandalm, as an agrahara
of 70 shares to several leanred Brahmanas, for securing success to the
king’s arms, by the chief Mahamnadalesvara Vimaladityadeva who is
stated to have been ruling Pottappi-nadu.
He was the son of Siddharasa and was called Madhurantaka
Pottappichchola.
A list of all the donees is given with the number of shares each
got, being specified.
No. 584
(Page No 407)
(A.
R. No. 584 of 1907)
Nandaluru,
Rajampet Taluk, Cuddapah District
Saumyanatha
temple – on the 3rd and 4th tiers of the same
base
This
is also in at the beginning. This seems to record the confirmation of a
grant of lands made probably by Erasiddharasar some time previously to
twenty Brahmanas, ten from the south and ten from the north – settled
in the
agrahara, by the chief’s son Madhurantaka Pottappi Chola
Vimaladitya on the day of Chittirai-Vishu.
Siddharasa
No.
585
(Page No 408)
(A.
R. No. 585 of 1907)
Nandaluru,
Rajampet Taluk, Cuddapah District
Saumyanatha
temple – on the 2nd and 3rd tiers of the same
base; left of entrance
This
is built in at the end.
The date portion is lost.
It seems to record the grant of a village by name Tottimettai
alias Sokkadevavilagam by the chief
Mahamandalesvara Siddharasa ‘ruling Pottappi-nadu,’ for the
expenses of a festival in the temple of Sokkapperumal.
The same donor probably made another gift in the next year (for
the formation of a road for the god’s procession ?)
Era Siddharasa
No.
572
(Page No 391)
(A.
R. No. 572 of 1907)
Nandaluru,
Rajampet Taluk, Cuddapah District
Saumyanatha
temple – on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th
tiers of the south base
Kulottunga
II year 8 : 1193-40 A.D.
The
inscription begins with the introduction
Pumevu Tirumagal etc. Portions
are built in. This is stated to
be the charter of the devadana
lands of god Kulottungasola-Vinnagar-Alvar and of the demarcation of the
four boundaries of the village Kulottungasola-chaturvedimnagalam granted
to the Sabha by the chief
Madhurantaka Pottappichchola Siddharasa.
A list of the former is given in which are included wet and dry
lands coconut and areca garden, flower and deserted land (nattappal) and
residential areas. (Of the
latter?) the charter confirms 52 share-holders in their possession as sarvanamasya
recorded as granted in No. 573 below.
Somesvara
No.
611
(Page No 426)
(A.
R. No. 611 of 1907)
Nandaluru,
Rajampet Taluk, Cuddapah District
Saumyanatha
temple – on the same gopura, left of entrance
This
comprises two verses in Sanskrit one recording the construction of this
gopura by Somesvara son of Vimaladitya, and the other eulogizing him
as an ornament of the family of Pottapichola who “had subdued the
whole earth by the strength of his arms.” Vimaladitya who figures in
Nos. 579 and 584 above as the feudatory of Vikramachola was the son of
Siddharasa who has been surmised to be the possible elder brother of
Beta I (A. R. for 1908, Part
II, para 78).
Nalla Siddharasa
No.
570
(Page No 390)
(A.
R. No. 570 of 1907)
Nandaluru,
Rajampet Taluk, Cuddapah District
Saumyanatha
temple – on the south base of the mandapa
in
front of the central shrine
This
begins with the Sanskrit introduction Charanasaroruha etc.
It records an order of (the Telugu Chola chief) Madhurantaka
Pottappichchola Nallam Siddharasa to the Mahajanas
of Nirandanur which he calls his brahmapuri, restoring to them the
village within the four boundaries, which had been originally granted to
them by Vatsaraja and Siddharasa’s ancestors and declaring that the
Vellalas (probably then in illegal occupation) had no title to the
village. The charter of
possession is said to have been made by the chief in the presence of god
Sokkapperumal. There seems to be
some gap in the body of the record.
No.
578
(Page No 397)
(A.
R. No. 578 of 1907)
Nandaluru,
Rajampet Taluk, Cuddapah District
Saumyanatha
temple – on the north base of the same mandapa,
1st tier
Kulottunga
III year 26 :
1202-03 A.D.
The
king is given the appellation “who took Madurai and the crowned head
of the Pandya”. The inscription give the cyclic year Raktashi and mon
h Ani and registers the gift of three villages as agrahara exempting
them from taxes like silvari and peruvari, by Nallan Siddharasa, son of
Madhurantaka Pottappichchola alias Erama-Siddharasa. These villages were
Nirandanur alias Kulottungasola-chaturvedimangalam, Andappur alias
Tyagasamudra-chaturvedimangalam and Mantram alias
Bhujabalasiddhi-chaturvedimangalam.
No.
601
(Page No 421)
(A.
R. No. 601 of 1907)
Nandaluru,
Rajampet Taluk, Cuddapah District
Saumyanatha
temple – On the base of the inner
eastern
gopura, south side
Kulottunga
III. Year 24 :
1202 A.D.
The
cyclic year Dundubhi corresponding with the 24th regnal year makes this
a record of Kulottunga III. The other details of date are Rishobha,
su. 3, Friday, Mrigasirsha (A.D. 1202, April 26).
This
records a gift of ten Bhujabala-madai for two perpetual lamps in the
temple of Sokkapperumal by Nukkamadevi the wife of the chief
Madhuranataka Pottappichchola Nallasiddharasar.
Tikka
No.
582
(Page No 228)
(A.
R. No. 582 of 1907)
Nandaluru,
Rajampet Taluk, Cuddapah District
Saumyanatha
temple – on the 1st tier of the east base of the
same
mandapa; right of entrance
Kulottunga
III. Year 31 : 1208-09 A.D.
The
king is given the appellation ‘who took Madurai and the crowned head
of the Pandya’. The details of
the date are given as Sukla, ba. 1, Tuesday, Svati.
Chittirai-Vishu corresponding to A.D. 1209, March 24, the vishu
however being next day. This
records a gift of money (due to him as tax from the village on oil and
ghee) by Madhurantaka-Pottappi-Chola Tirukkalattideva for perpetual
lamps in the temple of Sokkapperumal at Nirandanur-agaram
Kulottungasola-chaturvedi-mangalam, for the merit of his father (ayyajiyar)
Manumasiddarasa and (uncle) Nallasiddarasa who, according to No. 578
above was the son of Eramasiddarasa as also was Manumasiddarasa (No.
580).
Manmasiddha Gandagopala
No.
580
(Page No 400)
(A.
R. No. 580 of 1907)
Nandaluru,
Rajampet Taluk, Cuddapah District
Saumyanatha
temple – on the 5th tier of the north base, the north and
West
walls of the same mandapa and
the north wall of the central shrine
Rajendra-Chola
III year 13 : 1257-58 A.D.
The
inscription is also dated in Saka 1179, Pingala, Mesha-Sankranti.
It is written in three languages, the gift part being in Sanskrit
; the next comprising mostly of the names of the donees with the number
of their shares of land, is in Telugu but in Grantha alphabet like the
first part ; and the last portion of about 20 lines, giving the main
gist of the record is in Tamil. The epigraph begins with a eulogy of a king by name Trinetra (Trilochana-Pallava
?) who founded many agraharas to
the east of the Tripurantaka hill. A
successor of his of the same name – Mukkanti-Kaduvetti established and
gave the village Perungandur in Paschima-Paka-nadu a division of
Adhirajendra-Chola-mandalam to 52 Brahmanas in Saka 723 (mistake for
Saka 730 ?), Sarvadhari, Mesha-Sankramana, ba. 6, Wednesda, Mula (A.D.
808, March 21 , Tuesday ?). The
donees were in enjoyment of their shares for a long time, when some
Velumas from Inumbrolu escaping from the mari-jvaram
of their place, settled in fields near them, agreeing to pay rents for
their lands, along-side the residents of Sakali-Kodura who had also
emigrated from their place on account of some riots.
During a famine that followed the Brahmanas left their places and
when they returned found themselves supplanted in their possessions by
the new comers who had in the meantime named their new settlement as
Koduru, and refused to give the rent due to the Brahmana landlords.
The latter then made a representation to the chief Manumasiddhi,
whose genealogy is here introduced viz Dayabhima, Betabhupa, Erasiddhi,
Manmasiddha, and Tikkanripa the father of the ruling chief.
This Manumasiddhi is said to have conquered a chief named Vijaya
and tried to secure the friendship of Kakatiya-Ganapati by fighting a
battle for him on the banks of the Godavari.
He was a feudatory under the Chola king Rajendra-Chola III whose
regnal year is quoted.
Manumasiddhi
sent for the cultivators against whom the complaint was made and after
due enquiry with witnesses, decided the case in favour of the
dispossessed Brahmanas, to whom he renewed the grant of the village
Koduru for the merit of his father. Then
follows a detailed list of all the share-holders, in Telugu.
The concluding portion of the inscription which is in Tamil
registers an order of Madurantaka-Pottappi-Chola Manumasiddhi, granting
the village Koduru a hamlet of Perungandur to the Brahmanas, thus
restoring their ancient possessions, when the inhabitants from Inumbudol
(Inumbrolu) could not prove their case.
No.
598
(Page No 418)
(A.
R. No. 598 of 1907)
Nandaluru,
Rajampet Taluk, Cuddapah District
Saumyanatha
temple – on the same place, left side
This
is dated in Saka 1172, Saumya, Rishabha, ba. 15, Friday, Rohini
corresponding to A.D. 1249, May 14, Saka year being current on which day
there is stated to have been a solar eclipse. It records a gift of all
the tolls including the ‘maganmai’ dues leviable at Nirandanur, for
the expenses of the several festivals in the temple of Sokkapperumal, by
one Perumal-Pillai the headman of Kaliyur and a toll officer, to secure
the well-being of Madurantaka Pottappichchola Gandagopalar alias
Manma-siddharasa. The record is incomplete.
Tikka (son of
Kamarasa)
No.
597
(Page No 418)
(A.
R. No. 597 of 1907)
Nandaluru,
Rajampet Taluk, Cuddapah District
Saumyanatha
temple – In the same place
This
is dated in Saka 1193, Prajapati (1271-72 A.D.) and records a gift of 32
cows for burning a perpetual lamp in the temple by Perumanadi Devarasa
younger brother of Prasadi
Tikkarasa a son of Jagadobbaganda Kamarasa.
It is not clear whether this Kamarasa was the same as the chief
jag. Kamayadeva mentioned in No.
206 of 1894 from Kavali in the Nellore district.
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