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THE PANDYAS
Saḍaiya-Māran Śrīvallabha, and his officer Iruppaikkuḍi-Kilavan.
36. The earliest Pāṇḍya inscription in the collection is a Vaṭṭeluttu record
of Śaḍaiya-Māran dated in his [1]8th year coming from Nenmēni in the Sattur
taluk of the Ramnad district (No. 169).
It records that Eṭṭi-Śāttan, the chief (kilavan) of Iruppaikkuḍi constructed an ambalam at Nenmali in Iruñjōla-nāḍu and
renovated a certain portion of the bund of the big tank situated to the south of
the Śiva temple of Nenmali-Nakkan, and provided a stone sluice for it. This tank
was renamed Kilavanēri after him. From the Erukkaṅguḍi inscription (No.
334 of 1929-30) we know that a chief named Eṭṭi-Śāttan flourished in the time of
the Pāṇḍya sovereign Neḍumāran Śrīvallabha, and that he was called the chief
of the people of the prosperous Kūḍarkuḍi, Kuḷattūr, Tulāyūr, Iruppaikkuḍi,
Veliyaṅguḍi and Ālaṅguḍi, which were villages included in the greater territorial
division Iruñjōla-nāḍu, and that he was given the title of Iruppaikuḍi-kilavan by the Pāṇḍya king. Since these chiefs are identical, Śaḍaiya-Māran of the present
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