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South and east walls of the maṇḍapa in front of the same shrine. |
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Māṛavarman Tribhuvanachakravartin |
6th year (in words) |
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Built in in the middle. Seems to record the gift of a salt-pan (aḷam) situated in the tirunāmattukkāṇi of the Tirumākāḷam-Uḍaiyār temple (at Tiruvirumbai) by the ūrār of Villippākkam alias Gaṅgaikoṇḍaśōlanallūr in Ōymā-nāḍu, a subdivision of Jayaṅgoṇḍaśōla-maṇḍalam. Below this is a fragmentary inscription dated in the 6the year of Māṛavarman Tribhuvanachakravartin . . . . . .probably the same king. which records a gift5 of ½ salt-pan at Kandāḍu to the same god. Olugaṛai is here stated to be in Māttūr-nāḍu. |
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Pondicherry.—Stone fixed into the fountain near the Dupleix statue. |
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In characters of the 19th century A.D. Records the circumstances of the construction of the tank Āyikuḷam at Muttiriyarpāḷaiyam by the dancing girl Āyi with the permission of Kṛishṇadēvarāja of Rāyavēlūr, when he visited the southern country with the minister Appāji. The third Nappōlayōm (Napoleon III) is stated to have given this site for the construction of a fountain in her memory. A Latin version of this record is given on another slab set up in the same place. |
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Three stones built in to different portions to the Cathedral in the same village. |
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Fragmentary. One of them in characters of the 10th century A.D. id dated in the 26the year of a Chōḷa king and seems to record a gift of land (śeṛuvu) to the temple Kilai-śrīkōyil at Kottānppākkam. Another (12th century A.D.) fixed into a step records some provision made by Kaṇṇuḍaiyān alias Uyyavandān Śāttan of Māṅgāḍu to god Tiruvagattīśvaram-uḍaiya-Nāyanār at [Olu]garai alias Kulōttuṅgaśōlanallūr. A third near the well (13th century A.D.) mentions a certain accountant of the nāḍu named Olugarai-Uḍaiyān. |
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Villiyanūr.—South wall of the maṇḍapa in front of the central shrine in the Tirukkāmīśvara temple. |
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Śaka 1459, Durmīkhi, Rishabha, śu., Hasta, Sunday. |
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Registers grant of lands called Vaṇṇattānpaṭṭu and Seṅgalunīrpaḷḷam as sarvamānya to the god Tirukkāmīśuramuḍaiya-Nayinār at Villiyanūr in Olugarai-paṛṛu in Māttūrnāḍu, a subdivision of Toṇḍai-maṇḍalam in Pudūr Iḷaṅgōṭṭa, situated in Jayaṅgoṇḍāśōla-maṇḍalam, by the accountant Ach[chu]ta-Nayinār, for the merit of Achyutaya-Mahārāja and of Karaṇikkam PilaiporuttārPiḷḷai. |
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Same wall |
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Śaka 1454, Nandana, Kārttigai 28, śu., Tiruvōṇam, Monday. |
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Registers remission of the tax-jōḍi of 20 pon hitherto due to the palace on three tirunāmattukkāṇi villages including Vaṇṇārakkollai belonging to Villiyanallūr by Śaruvappayan, for the meirt of the king and of Rāmābhaṭṭarayyan. |
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Ariyaṇa-Uḍaiyar (Harihara) |
Śaka 1301 (in words), Siddhārthi. |
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Registers gift of 10 mā of land at Villiyanallūr, free of taxes, made evidently by the nāṭṭār, with the permission of the king, for the expenses of taking the god in procession for bath to the sea in the month of Paṅguni. The document is signed by Olugarai-Uḍaiyar, the accountant of the village. |
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Śaka 1301, Siddhārthi, Kārttigai 23. |
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Engraved below No. 183. Incomplete. Registers a gift of 533 kuli of land , after purchase, by Araiyan Malaippiḷḷai alias Tennāṭṭaraiyan, a vāṇiyan of Ulundai, for a perpectual lamp in the temple. |
