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(INSCRIPTION COLLECTED
DURING THE YEAR 1908-09)
RULERS OF KONGU
vikramacholadeva
No. 116 (Page No
72)
(A. R. No. 112 of 1909)
Komaralingam, Udumalaipet Taluk, Coimbatore
District
On the north wall of the Venkatesa-perumal temple.
Vikramacholadeva : Year 2=1256 A.D.
This fragmentary record mentions Eripadainallur in
Pandi-mandalam.
No. 139 (Page No 85)
(A. R. No 131 of 1909.)
Komaralingam, Udumalaipet Taluk, Coimbatore
District
On the south wall of the Karivaradaraja-perumal
temple.
Vikramacholadeva: Year 22+1=1277-78 A. D.
This inscription records the gift of 10 achchu for food offerings to the god kariyapiran at Sri Kumarangabhima
chchaturvedimangalm, a brahmadeya, in Karaivali-nadu, by Devan,
Silamban alias Tribhuvanagangadeva a feudatory (Samanta) of the
king.
No. 142 (Page No 89)
(A. R. No. 134 of 1909.)
Komaralingam, Udumalaipet Taluk, Coimbatore Distrit
On the north wall of the Karivaradaraja-perumal
temple.
Vikrama-choladeva:Year 27=e. 1281 A. D.
This inscription records a gift of paddy for food
offerings to the kariyapiran of Kumarangaviyamach-charuppedimangalam in
Karivali-nadu by Virandaliyan alias Udaiyadichchadevan who is
also stated to have purchased from Alagapperuman of Solamadevi of
Karavali-nadu some land described as Kariyapiran
kudininigat-tiruvidaiyattam.
No. 153 (Page No 99)
(A. R. No. 145 of 1909.)
Sangramallur, Udumalaipet Taluk, Coimbatore
District
North wall of the same sheine.
Tribh Konerinmaikondan (Vikramachola): No date: e.
13th century
This inscription is much damaged and its lower part
is not available. It appears to records a gift made by the king of land
in Kallapuram alias Vikra[ma*]-cholanallur in Karaivali-nadu, to
a certain Kandan Kavan alias Sivapattan (Sivabhaktan).
No. 154 (Page No 99)
(A. R. No. 146 of 1909.)
Sangramanallur, Udumalaipet Taluk, Coimbatore
District Same wall.
Vikrama-choladeva : Year 3=1257-58 A. D.
This is built in at the beginning and seems to be
incomplete. It appears to record a gift of land made by a certain Alvi alias Vikkiramachola-bhuvanachchak[kiravartti] in favour of the trumadaivilagam of the temple of Viracholisuramudaiyar in Kolumam
in Karavali-nadu. Also mentions the village of Odatturai.
No. 155 (Page No 100)
(A. R. No. 147 of 1909.)
Sangramanallur, Udumalaipet Taluk, Coimbatore
District
In the same place as above.
Tribh Vikramacholadeva : Year 22 + 1st
= 1277-78 A.D.
This inscription records a gift of land made by a
certain Iyalvallan Pandiyan alias Vikkiramachola Irungolan, a
mudali of the king. The lands gifted are stated to be situated in
Kiranur in Pongalurkka-nadu. The gift was made to the god of the temple
of Viracholisvaramudaiyar in Kolumam, and it was to the merit of the
donor and for celebrating the Karttigai festival for food
offerings to the god and for the taking out in Procession of the deity.
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No. 225
(Page No 147)
(A. R. No. 213 of 1909.)
Kannadiputtur, Udumalaipet Taluk, Coimbatore
District Same wall.
Vikrama-[cho] ladeva: Date lost. E. 13th
century.
This inscription is damaged and the date portion is
lost. It seems to record a gift of 7 achchu of [Sri]yakki-palanjalagai
with which to feed some people (details lost), by a certain person. It
also mentions a Sivabrahmanawho had the right of worship in the
temple of the god Tiruv-Anantisvaram-udaiyar.
No. 231 (Page No 150)
(A. R. No. 219 of 1909.)
Kannadiputtur, Udumalaipet Taluk, Coimbatore
District
Door-post of the entrance into the Tirumandikesvara
temple in the village
Vikramacholadeva: Year 20=1274-75 A. D.
This inscription records a gift of 3 achchu
of money for hot food-offerings to the god Tiru-Anantisuramudaiyar in
Kannadipputtur in Karaivali-nadu, by a certain Muttaval Kaikkila
Kalkovan-Viran. The money is stated to have been entrusted to
Karikalasola-bhattan, a Sivabrahmana having right in the temple.
It is stated that the investment of the money would yield two kalam
of paddy at every crop-season.
No. 236
(Page No 153)
(A. R. No. 224 of 1909.)
Solamadevi, Udumalaipet Taluk, Coimbatore District
Same wall.
Vikramacholadeva: Year 8=1262-63 A. D. (?)
This inscription records the gift of the eastern
portion of the patti (enclosure?) of the temple by Periyadevan,
an ascetic of the Melaimatham (waetern matha), of
Solamadevinallur.
No. 247 (Page No 159)
(A. R. No. 235 of
1909.)
Salamadevi, Udumalaipet Taluk, Coimbatore District
Same wall.
Tribh
Vikrama-choadeva : Year 20+1st +1st[1]
=1276-77 A. D.
This inscription is incomplete. It states
that a certain Vellatti named Urankovi alias Kalabhamanachchay donated 5
Palanjalagai achchu to provide for the services on Sivarattiri days to
the god Kulaisekhara-Isvaramudaiyar of Solamadevinallur. This money was
utilised for doing repairs to the mandapa, in the temple. In lieu
thereof the king made a gift of paddy at rate of 6 kalam per year.
No. 249 (Page No 160)
(A. R. No. 237 of 1909.)
Salamadevi, Udumalaipet Taluk, Coimbatore District
A pillar within the same temple.
Vikrama-choladeva: Year 22=1276-77 A. D. (?)
This inscription records that the pillar, on which
the epigraph is inscribed, was the gift of a certain Modan
Tirunattapperumal, a Saliya of the village of Solamadevi.
No. 250 (Page No 160)
(A. R. No. 238 of 1909.)
Solamadevi, Udumalaipet Taluk, Coimbatore District
Another pillar in the same place.
Tribh Vikrama-choladeva: Year 21=1275-76 A. D.
This inscription records that the pillar was the
gift by a Vellatti (name not clear) of Solamadevinallur, to the temple
of Alu[daiya]-nayanar.
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No. 251
(Page No 161)
(A. R. No. 239 of 1909.)
Solamadevi, Udumalaipet Taluk, Coimbatore District
Third pillar in the same place.
Vikrama-choladeva: Year 20=1274-75 A. D.
This inscription records that this pillar was the
gift of a certain Sivirikuttan, a Kaikkolar of Solamadevinallur.
No. 254 (Page No 162)
(A. R. No. 242 of 1909.)
Solamadevi. Idimalaipet Taluk, Coimbatore District
Door-post of the entrance into the Tambirattiyamman
temple in the village.
Parakesarivarman alias Vikrama-choladeva :
Year 22+1+1st =1278-79 A. D.
This inscription records a gift of two
Sriyakki-Palanjalakai-achchu, for conducting the Sivarattiri
festival to the god Irajaraja-Isvaramudaiyar of Kadappadi alias
Virasolapuram, by a certain Kurunjeriyandar, alias Siruttondan,
an ascetic (tapasvin) of the same place. The money was entrusted
to the Sivabrahmana Devan Sivadavanapperumal alias
Narpattennayirabhattan who had the right (of worship) in the temple and
who had agreed to see the festival conducted perpetually in the temple.
No. 255 (Page No 163)
(A. R. No. 243 of 1909.)
Solamadevi, Udumalaipet Taluk, Coimbatore District
Stone built into the wall of the same temple.
Vikramacholadeva: Year 3=1257-58 A. D.
The beginning of this inscription is built in. It
records a gift of two Iyakki-Palanjalagai for burning a
sandhya lamp in the temple of the god . . . . . . .tavanamudaiyar of
Kannadipudur in Karaivali-nadu, by a certain [ . . . . ] alias
Konganadu-kilavan of the same place. The money is stated to have been
entrusted to the Sivabrahmana Karikalasola-bhattan who had right
(of worship) in the temple.
Raja
Virapandyadeva
No. 148 (Page No 94)
(A. R. No. 140 of 1909.)
Sangramanallur, Udumalaipet Taluk, Coimvatore
District
West wall of the same shrine.
Rajakesarivarman alias Tribh Virapandyadeva;
Year 15=1280 A. D.
This inscription is incomplete. It records some
grant to the servants of the temple of Viracholisvaram-udaiyar in
Kolumam, by the citizens (Nagarattar) of Eripadanallur in
Tuvarapati-nadu of Orrimmal in Uraiyurkkurram in Irasagambhira-valanadu
in Chola-mandalam.
No. 195 (Page No 127)
(A. R. No. 183 of 1909.)
Avanashi, Avanashi Taluk, Coimbatore District
North wall of the same shrine.
Vira-pandyadeva : Year 7=1272 A. D.
This inscription is very much damaged and is
incomplete. It appears to records a gift of land as Kudiniga-devadana and a gift of paddy to provide for food offerings and to do some
services probably to the deity Avinasiyaludaiya-nayanar. Mention is made
of the premises of the temple of this deity and of a street called
Vikkiramacholan-tiruvidi.
No. 196
(Page No 127)
(A. R. No. 184 of 1909.)
Avanashi, Avanashi Taluk, Coimvatore District
South wall of the mandapa in front of the
same shrine.
Rajakesarivarman alias Tribh Vira-pandyadeva
: Year 8+1st, Masi=1274 A. D.
Rajakesarivarman alias Tribh
Vira-pandyadeva : Year 8+1st, Masi=1274 A. D.
This inscription records a settlement
concluded by the members of the Vellala community and the members of the
Puluva community belonging to Vadaparisanakanadut, with the members of
the two communites belonging to Sevur alias Sembiyan-kilanadillur in the
same Vadaparisanaka-nadu[2],
a devadana of the god Avinasiyaludaiyar but with the proprietory right
over it resting with these people. The settlement related to the removal
of two Vellala and two Puluva families from this village, without,
however, stating the reason of this action. Several signatories, each
hailing from a different village, figure in this record.
No. 197
(Page No 129)
(A. R. No. 185 of 1909.)
Avanashi, Avanashi Taluk, Coimbatore District Same wall.
Vira-pandyadeva : Year 8, Panguni=1273 A. D.
This inscription records an order of the deity
Adi-Chandesure. It pertains to the matter of colonising from the 8th
year in the reign of the king of the village of Sevur alias
Sembiyan-kilanadinallur in Vadaparisara-nadu, a devadana of the
deity Avinasiyaludaiyar, but owned by the ur and the uralis of the village. It also records that in the next year (i.e., the 9th
year in the reign of the king) the village people themselves would enjoy
the lands; but from the year after that (i. e., from the 10th
year), the villagers should pay paddy and several other taxes
(specified), besides 10 achchu of money annually.
No. 199
(Page No 130)
(A. R. No. 187 of 1909.)
Avanashi, Avanashi Taluk, Coimbatore District Same
wall.
Vira-pandyadeva : Year 14=June 19, (Monday), 1279
A. D.
This inscription is slightly damaged and is
incomplete at the end. It records a gift of 12 kalam of paddy
from the14th day of the month of Ani in the year quoted above, to
provide for food offerings to the deity Sundaranayanar at Tenpalli, by
the ur and the uralis of the village of Papparapundi
alias Virarajendranallur a devadana of the deity
Avinasiyaludaiyar. It is stated that these people would deliver the
paddy to the sri-bhandara of the temple of
Avinasiyaludaiya-nayanar, annually.
No. 214
(Page No 141)
(A. R. No. 202 of 1909)
Nambiyur, Gobichettipalayam Taluk, Coimbatore
District
South wall of the Tantonrisvara temple.
Vira-Pandyadeva : Year 11=1276 A.D.
This incomplete inscription records a gift of a
sandhya lamp to the god Tantonrisvaramudaiyar by a certain person
(name lost), a Vellalan Menmani of Nambiperur in [......].nadu.
No. 216
(Page No 142)
(A. R. No. 204 of 1909)
Nambiyur, Gobichettipalayam Taluk, Coimbatore
District
In the same place as above
Vira-Pandyadeva : Year 11=1276 A.D.
This incomplete inscription records a gift of two sandhya lamps and probably money to provide oil for them, to the
god Tantonrisvaramudaiyar by a certain Mukkan Andan, a Vellala of
Nambiperur in Vedaparisara-nadu. A Sivabrahmana and another
(name lost) who had rights (of worship) in the temple seem to have
accepted the gift.
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No. 217
(Page No 142)
(A. R. No. 205 of 1909)
Nambiyur, Gobichettipalayam Taluk, Coimbatore
Distirct
East wall of the same temple, left of entrance.
Vira-Pandyadeva: Year 11, Aippasi=1276 A.D.
This inscription is damaged and incomplete. It
records a gift of a sandhya lamp to the god Tantonrisvaramudiayar
by a certain Devan Irajarajan a Vellan Sola of Nambiperur in
Vedaparisara-nadu. The Sivabrahmanas figuring in No. 216 above,
figure here also.
No. 218
(Page No 143)
(A. R. No. 206 of 1909.)
Nambiyur, Gobichettipalayam Taluk, Coimbatore
District
North wall of the same temple.
Vira-Pandyadeva : Year 14=1279 A. D.
This inscription records a gift of a sandhya
lamp and a sum of 10 panam to provide oil for it, to the deity
Tantonrisvaramudaiyar of Nambiperur by the wife of the Brahmana Puman
Soman of Kasuva (Kasyapa)-gotra belonging to Pattali in Kangaiya-nadu.
The temple-right-owning Brahmanas Andan Sella-bhattan alias
Tiruchchirrambala-nambi of Bharadvaja-gotra and Alvan Vanjagarkayan
alias Vanjanayaka-bhattan received the gift and agreed to do the
service.
No. 219
(Page No 143)
(A. R. No. 207 of 1909.)
Nambiyur, Gobichettipalayam Taluk, Coimbatore
District Same wall.
. . . . . . [Pa]ndyadeva : Year 11=1276 A. D. (Virapandya)
This inscription is damaged in some places. It
records a gift of a sandhya lamp and a sum of 10 panam for
(providing oil for) it, to the same deity by a certain Singakaramindan
Devan ) second name lost), a Vellalan Kalanjaya of Nambiperur in
Vadaparisara-nadu. The gift was received by the same Sivabrahmanas
who figure in No. 218 above, etc.
Vikramachola
No. 232
(Page No 151)
(A. R. No. 220 of
1909.)
Kannadiputtur,
Udumalaipet Taluk, Coimbatore District
West wall of the
Kaliyaga-Varadaraja-Perumal temple in the village.
Tribh
Konerinmaikondan : Vikramacholadeva (?) Year 3, 257th day=1276 A. D.
This inscription records an order of the
king confirming as iraiyili, a piece of land which was situated at
Solamadevinallur in Karaivali-nadu and was originally granted as
iraiyiliby Sundarapandya to the temple of the god Sokkanarayanapperumal
at Kannadipputtur alias Virapandyachchuturvedimangalam in Karaivali-nadu.
The order is addressed to the Nambiyar and the Sri-Vaittinavar of the
temple.
No. 234
(Page No 152 )
(A. R. No. 222 of
1909.)
Solamadevi,
Udumalaipet Taluk, Coimbatore District
South wall of the
Kulasekharasvamin temple.
Vikramacholadeva
: Year 27=1299-1300 A. D.
This inscription records a gift of land by
a certain Kali Araiyan Irunedik. Kilavan, a manradi of Solanmadevinallur
in Karaivali-nadu, for offerings to the god Kulaisekhara-Isvaramudaiyar
of the same village, at the service of tiruttanakkutti. Mention is made
of a piece of land among those forming the boundaries of the gift-land
stated to be the sridhana land of the donorâs elder sister (tamakkai).
No. 248
(Page No 159)
(A. R. No. 236 of
1909.)
Solamadevi,
Udumalaipet Taluk, Coimbatore District
East wall of the
same temple, right of entrance.
Parakesarivarman
alias Tribh Vikrama-choladeva : Year 12-1284-85 A. D.
This inscription records a gift of a
garden as madappuram made by the residents of Solamadevinallur in
Karaivali-nadu, to the Kilaimatham (the monastery on the eastern side)
for burning lamps in the matham.
No. 252
(Page No 161)
(A. R. No. 240 of
1909.)
Solamadevi,
Udumalaipet Taluk, Coimbatore District
Dorr-post of the
eastern entrance into the same temple.
Tribh
Vikrama-choladeva : Year 20=1292-93 A. D
This inscription records the gift of two
door-posts and a couple of steps to the mandapa (of the temple) by a
certain women (Vellatti) named Adiyasolan Araisan alias Manikaiyarayan,
a Tulaiyar, of Solamadevinallur, for her own merit.
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No. 253
(Page No 161)
(A. R. No. 241 of
1909.)
Solamadevi,
Udumalaipet Taluk, Coimbatore Districy
Door-post of the
southern entrance into the same temple.
Tribh
Vikrama-choladeva: Year 20=1292-93 A. D.
This inscription records a gift of two
door-posts and two steps to the mandapa (of the temple) caused to be
made and erected, by two women of Solamadevinallur, one named Paraiyan
Aludainachchi, a Pusakar and her younger mother.
Sundarapandya
No. 172
(Page No 113)
(A. R. No. 161 of 1909.)
Sangramanallur, Udumalaipet Taluk, Coimbatore
District
Second slab in the same place.
Sundara-pandyadeva (Ruler of Kongu?) year 37=e.
1302 A. D.
(contemporary of Vira-pandya and Vikrama-chola)
This is also a fragmentary record. It appears to
record a gift of paddy and mentions Karaivali-nadu.
No. 192 (Page No 124)
(A. R. No.180 of 1909.)
Avanashi, Avanashi Taluk, Coimbatore District
South wall of the
Brihatkarunambika shrine in the same temple.
[Sundara-pandyadeva]
: Year 32,
[3] Chittiarl=1297-98 A. D.
This inscription is damaged. It records an
endowment of 45 panam, of which 35 panam was for providing food
offerings and 10 panam was for the procession of the image of the deity
(name lost), probably of the temple of Avinasi Aludaiyar. The name of
the donor is lost but it seems that he hailed from Madakkulakkil-Madurai
(i. e., Madurai) in [Pandi]-mandalam.
No. 193
(Page No 125)
(A. R. No. 181 of 1909.)
Avanashi, Avanashi Taluk, Coimbatore District
West wall of the same shrine.
Sundara-pandyadeva : Year 3[1], Panguni=1296 A. D.
This inscription is also damaged. It records a gift
of money made by Perumal Alagiyanayan alias Alagiya Pandiyadevar,
a merchant of Aranaiyua alias Sivallapuram in Karaivali-nadu in [
. . . . . . . .] mandalam, to provide for food offerings to the deity
Sundaranayanar to whom a temple was caused to be constructed on the bank
of the tank at Pikkoliyur, by the same merchant. It is stated that the
gift was found necessary because the sabhaiyar and the urar
of kanjappalli alias Kulottungacholach-chaturvedimangalam in Vi .
. . . . . . chola-valanadu, were not able to pay something the details
of which are lost. It is further stated that the above-mentioned
sabhaiyar and urar had undertaken to carry out the object of
the endowment.
Rajaraja Karikalacholadeva
No. 112
(Page No 70)
(A. R. No. 109 of 1909)
Komaralingam,
Udumalaipet Taluk, Coimbatore District
On the north wall
of the Venkatesa-perumal temple.
Rajaraja-Karikalacholadeva : Year 12 (Ruler of Kongu)
This fragmentary inscription mentions
Kulumam in Karaivali-nadu.
No. 113
(Page No 70)
(A. R. No. 110 of 1909)
Komaralingam,
Udumalaipet Taluk, Coimbatore District
On the north wall
of the Venkatesa-perumal temple.
Rajaraja-Krikalacholadeva : (Ruler of Kongu)
This fragmentary inscription of which the
date portion is lost, records the gift of 15 kalanju of gold by a person
(name lost) for a perpetual lamp evidently for a temple (name lost) and
the undertaking given by three Sivabrahmanas named Chamundan
Chndrasekhara of Kasyapa-gotra, Dakshinamurtti-bhattan and a third whose
name is lost, who received the gold, for burning the lamp.
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Parakesarivarman Tribh
No. 131
(Page No 80)
(A. R. No.124-A of
1909)
Komaralingam,
Udumalaipet Taluk, Coimbatore District
On the north base
of the karivaradaraja-perumal temple.
This badly damaged inscription describes
the king (name lost) as parakesarivarman Tribhu . . . . . . and seems
to record a gift for offerings. The other details are lost.
No. 132
(Page No 80)
(A. R. No. 124-B of
1909.)
Komaralingam,
Udumalaipet Taluk, Coimbatore District
On the north base
of the Karivaradaraja-perumal temple.
This very much damaged inscription
describes the king (name lost) as named after the king, for the temple
of Emberuman Kariyapiran at [Kumaranga] bhimach-chaturvedimangalam.
Rajakesarivarman
Tribh
No. 111
(Page No 69)
(A. R. No. 108 of
1909)
Komaralingam,
Udumalaipet Taluk, Coimbatore District
On the north wall
of the Venkatesa-perumal temple.
Rajakesarivarman:
Year 37
This fragmentary inscription in characters
of about the 12th century, seems to have recorded a grant of gold and
lands to god Aludaiyarâ¦.at Kolumam inKaraivali-nadu by the Sabha of a
chaturvedimangalam (name lost), and mentions Adhiradaraja-vaykkal.
S.I.I., Vol. XXVI-18
Tribh Konerimaikondan
No. 174
(Page No 114)
(A. R. No. 163 of
1909.)
Sangramanallur,
Udumalaipet Taluk, Coimbatore District
South wall of the
Agnisvara shrine in the same temple.
Tribh
Konerinmaikondan : Year 29, 98th day.
This inscription records a gift of land as
iraiyili, made by the king, in Tiruvalanadurai alias
Vikramacholach-chaturvvedimangalam to those who recited the Mahabharata
in the village. A certain villavadaraivan figures as signatory.
[1] The second 1st year has
not been given in the A. R. S.I. E., 1909.
[2] Read Vadaparisaraka-nadu.
[3] The year has been read as
22 in A. R. S. I. E., 1909.
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