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THE PANDYAS
chaturvēdimaṅgalam are all engraved, one in continuation of another, it is possible
that all these documents relating to this agrahāra were engraved in the 2+1st year
of Māravarman Kulasekhara.
Parākrama-Pāṇḍya (A.D. 1334); his uncle Kulaśēkhara Mahābali-Vāṇarayar.
45. Two inscriptions of Parākrama-Pāṇḍya without any distinguishing epithet
come from Villiyanūr near Pondicherry (Nos. 187 and 189). No. 189 dated in the
6th year, refers to the institution of a
service in the temple of Tirukkāmīśuram-
Uḍaiyār at Villiyanallūr, a hamlet of
Olugarai alias Kulōttuṅgaśōlanallūr in Māttūr-nāḍu, a subdivision of Jayaṅgoṇḍa-śōla-maṇḍalam, by the king’s ammān (maternal uncle) Kulaśēkhara Mahā-
bali-Vāṇarāyar in his own name. The Parākrama-Pāṇḍya of our record is probably
to be identified with Māravarman Parākrama-Pāṇḍya, whose initial date, according
to No. 113 of 1900, was A.D. 1333-34, since inscriptions of an earlier Jaṭāvarman
Parākrama-Pāṇḍya are not found in the South Arcot district. The donor Kulaśē-khara Mahābali-Vāṇarāyan is styled ‘ Piḷḷai ‘ in a record of the 26th year (c. 1322
A.D. ) of Jaṭāvarman Vīra-Pāṇḍya (No. 430 of 1907).
Vira-Pāṇḍya, A.D. 1334.
46. A damaged record of Kōnērinmaikoṇḍān from Śrīraṅgam (No. 51) refers
to the foundation of a colony called Sundarapāṇḍya-chaturvēdimaṅgalam after
the name of the king’s elder brother (aṇṇālvi). This record and the subsequent
two inscriptions (Nos.52 and 53) which are connected with the present inscrip-
tion are signed by Periyān Śōlaimalaichchokkan Toṇḍaimāṇ of Tūñjalūr in Milalai-
kūrram, a subdivision of Pāṇḍi-maṇḍalam. The first inscription (No. 51) records
a tax-free gift of land by the king to the temple of Vēdanārāyaṇa-Perumāḷ at Tiru-
nārāyaṇapuram in Allakarai-nāḍu which is evidently the village of the same name
in the Musiri taluk of the Trichinopoly district. A certain Śōlaimalaichchokkan
Toṇḍaimān of Aṇikkuḍi in Milalai-kūrram figures as donor in a record of Māra-varman Vīra-Pāṇḍya (No. 27 A of 1903 ; S. I. I., Vol. VIII, No. 300) of the initial
year A.D. 1334. If he is the same as the donor in our records we may assign these
(Nos. 51, 52 and 53) also to the same Vīra-Pāṇḍya, who, as stated above (No. 51), had an elder brother named Sundara-Pāṇḍya.
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