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THE LATER PALLAVAS
identified with this Maṇavāḷapperumāḷ who, later under the name Kōpperuñjiṅga
(I), seceded from the Chōḷa suzerainty and set up an independent principality with
Śēndamaṅgalam as his seat of government (Ep. Ind., Vol. XXIV, p. 22 ff). Since
Maṇavāḷapperumāḷ figures in the regin of Kulōttuṅga-Chōḷa III, the present
inscription has to be attributed to the regin of this king. The title Munaiyadaraiyan applied in this record to this chieftain in addition to Achalakulōttuṅgan appears to have been assumed by him by virtue of his authority over the
Malaiyamān country. In the Epigraphical Report for 1936-37 (Part II, paragraph
35), it has been stated, on the strength of an epigraph from Villiyanūr in French
India that there should have been two chiefs bearing the name Peruñjiṅga. Since
Maṇavāḷapperumāḷ figures as early as the 17th years of Kulōttuṅga-Chōḷa III
(i.e., A. D. 1195─No. 313 of 1902), the interval between this date and A. D. 1279
corresponding to the 36th year of a Kōpperuñjiṅga of accession A. D. 1243, i.e. 85
years, is ordinarily impossible for the active rule of a single chief. This, therefore,
furnishes an additional argument for postulating the existence of two chief of the
name Peruñjiṅga. To Peruñjiṅga II has probably to be assigned No. 379 from
Aṅganūr. This inscription refers to Śēnai Narasioṅgapanman, a Sāmanta-Mudali of this chief, who constructed a tank for the merit of his grandmother Mōgiyar.
Rājanārāvaṇa-Kāḍavarāya.
27. A much later member of this Pallava family comes to notice in an in-
scription from Elavānāśūr (No. 508), which from its palæography may be assigned
to about the 14th century A.D. It mentions that Pānnaraṅganār, a wife of
Pallavan alias Rājanārā[ya*]ṇa-Kāḍa-
Varāya dug the channel called the Puttūrkāl. As the donatrix referred to as a Nambirāṭṭi of Pallavan it is possible that
the latter was a local chieftain of some status. His prenomen ‘Rājanārāyaṇa’
suggests that he was a subordinate of Rājanārāyaṇa-Śambuvarāya who was ruling
over Tirukkōyilūr and the surrounding country in the second quarter probably
of the 14th century A. D.
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