The Indian Analyst
 

Annual Reports

 

No. Place of inscription. Dynasty. King. Date. Language and alphabet. Remarks.
171 Śeñjai.—South wall of the ruined Śiva temple. . . . . . . Śaka 1428, Kshaya, Makara 9, saptamī,  Tuesday, Chittirai. Tamil Records gift of land by purchase at Śeñjai by Kalanivāṥaluḍaiyān Nittalāḍuvār Periyanayina[ n *] in Iḷayāttakkuḍi alias Kulaṥekharapuram of Kalvāṥal-nāḍu and by Kaṇṇūruḍaiyān Alagapperumāḷ Tīrāvinaitīttār of Iluppaikkuḍi alias Pugaliḍaṅkoḍutta-paṭṭiṇam, for worship and offerings and for a festival in Tiruvādirai to the images of the goddesses set up by them respectively in the temples of Kēralaṥiṅgēvaramuḍaiya-Nāyanār and Bhuvalōkasundaramuḍaiya-Nāyanār at Pūvattūr in Tennārruppōkku, a   subdivision of Kēraḷaṥiṅga-vaḷanāḍu.
172 Stone built into the ceiling of the same temple. . . . . . . . . Do. States that Ponnambalakkūttan  Pugalābharanan alias Kumaṇarāyan of Nīrmaḍaiyūr in Purapparaḷai-nāḍu constructed the entrance (tiruvāṥal) (to this temple).
173 Door-posts of the entrance into the shrine of the goddess in the same temple. . . . . . . Śaka 1423, Dunmati, Chittirai 12. Do. Damaged.  States that Kaṇṇūruḍaiyān Alagapperumāl, mentioned in No. 171 above, constructed the portion above the paṭṭigai of the temple of Bhuvalōkasundarīchand the shrine of the goddess in the same temple and made provision for worship therein on occasions of festivals.
174 Kunnakkuḍi.—Pillar in the rock-cut cave at the foot of the hill. Pāṇḍya Māravarman alias Tribhuvanachakra vartin Sundara-Pāṇḍya ‘ who was pleased to present the Chōḷa country. 8th  year (in words), Māṥi 2. Do. Records an order of Kaṇḍan Āḷuḍaiyān alias Kalvāyil-Nādālvān to the Nāṭṭār of Adaḷaiyūr-nāḍu revising the rates of taxes to be paid by them in certain specified places, consequent on the change of the standard land-measure from 18 to one of 24 spans.
  SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT. VILUPPURAM TALUK.          
175 Kōṭṭaikuppam.—Stone lying near the Anantēṥvara temple. . . . . . .kravartin . . Do. Fragmentary.  Registers a grant of land by Śivadavanapperumāḷ of Kulōttuṅgaṥōlanallūr for offerings to the image of Kshētrapālap-Piḷḷaiyār set up by him in the temple of [Anan]tēṥvaram-Uḍaiyār.
176 Irumbai.—South wall of the central shrine in the Mahākāḷēṥvara temple. Pāṇḍya Sundara-Pāṇḍyadēva . . Do. In characters of the 14th  century A.D.  Built in at the beginning. States that  Paḷḷikoṇḍān  Alagiyamaṇavāḷapperumāḷ of Iruñchirai constructed the temple. Below this is written the label ‘[Vikki]ramapāṇḍyan-tirukkaṭṭaḷai.’
177 Same wall Do. Jaṭāvaraman  alias Tribhuvanachakravartin Sundara-Pāṇḍyadēva. Lost Do. Built in in the middle.  Seems to record an endowment after reclamation  of some tax-free lands other than those which had been already under cultivation from the 12th  to the 15th  years of the king. for  worship  and  offerings to the god Tirumākāḷam-Uḍaiyār at Tiruvirumbai (a hamlet of)  Olugarai alias Kulōttuṅgaṥōlssanallūr.

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