Annual Reports on Indian Epigraphy

Annual Reports

	TIRUVALLUB TALUK.
168	Tinnanūr.─Lamp pillar near the western entrance into the Śiva temple.	Pallava	Dantivarman	9th year (in words)	Tamil	Highly damaged. Mentions the sabha of Ninravur.
169	East wall of the maṇḍapa in front of the central shrine in the Bhakta vastala-Perumāḷ temple.			Śaka 1[55]4, Āṅgirasa, Vaiśākha, śu.	Telugu	Incomplete. Registers gift of land by China-Ōbaḷarāja, son of Ōbarāja and grandson of Ōbuḷarāja of the Kāśyapa gōtra, for worship and offerings to the god Bhaktavastala Perumāḷ at Tiruninravūr. Another damaged inscription near this record, dated in the cyclic year Pramōdūta (Śaka 1552), refers to another endowment by the same person.
170	Pillar in the same maṇḍapa	Chōḷa			Tamil	Incomplete. Begins with the introduction Tiruvaḷar, etc., of king Vīrarājendra.
171	Broken slab built into the floor ing in front of the dhvajastambha in the same temple.	Do.	Tribhuvanachakravartin Rājarājadēva	6th year (in words)	Do.	Incomplete. Mentions a raid on the village Ninravūr alias Virudarājabhayaṅkara-chaturvēdimaṅgalam in Ambar-nāḍu, a subdivision of Pular-kōṭṭams in the 5th year of the king, and the protection rendered to it by a certain Ella
172	Slab built into the floor in front of the Kalyāṇa-maṇḍapa in the same temple.	Pallava .	Nṛipatuṅgavikramavarman	21st year (in words)	Do.	Highly damaged and incomplete. Records the formation of a colony called Vaḍugavāṇiyachchēri in the name of VāhūrTiruvaḍi at Ninravūr in Pular-kōṭṭam and the rates of taxes leviable thereon.
173	Another slab built in the same temple	Do.	Do.	Do.	Do.	Highly damaged. Seems to be connected with the previous inscription. The record is signed by the son of Manukulōttaman of Vāhūr, the Madhyastha (of the village).
174	Two pillar in front of the Āḷvār shrine in the same temple.			Śaka 1630, Vikāri, Paṅguni 15.	Do.	Registers a samaya-patrikā relating to rights of tīrtha-prasāda, etc. in the temple, according to which the usurpation of these rights by Addaṅki Śiṅgarāchārya was set aside, the claims of Toṇḍaraḍippoḍi Rāmānuja-Jīya to the same being recognised.
175	Third pillar in the same place			….	Do.	In characters of the 18th century A. D. Gives a list of all the lands intended for the several services in the temple.
176	Two door-jambs of the Tāyār shrine in the same temple.	Chōḷa	Parakēsarivarman Rājēndradēva .	[Lost]	Do.	Highly damaged. Registers a gift of land for conducting the Śrībali service in the temple and for feeding students study ing the Vēdas.
177	Slab set up on the bund of the Varuṇapushkaraṇī tank near the Rāma temple.	Gōlkoṇḍa	Kutub Sā[ya*]bu Suratānu Ārdul Pādusāyabugāru (Abdul Hasan Qutb Shah ?)	Śaka 1597, Rākshasa, Āḍi 5.	Do.	Records the order given by the Sultan to Pemmasāni Kumāra Timmā-Nāyaka to levy an assessment on the lands irrigated by the tank at Tiruninrayūr and utilise it for its repairs.
	NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT. WANDIWASH TALUK.
178	Maḍam.─Pillar in the Piḷḷaiyār-maṇdapa outside the temple of KuḷandaiĀṇḍār.				Do.	In characters of the 16th century A. D. States that this pillar was the gift of Sāḷuva Naṭṭukkaṭṭuvār-Piḷḷaiyār of Maḍam.
179	Another pillar in the same place.				Do.	Do. States that this pillar was the gift of Sāḷuva Naṭṭukkaṭṭuvār-Mudali, evidently the same as the above donor.