Annual Reports on Indian Epigraphy

Annual Reports

	*NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT contd.* POLUR TALUK.
239	Kāṅganūr─Slab set up in the village.	Sāḷuva	Narasiṅgadēva-Mahārāya	Śaka 1413, Virōdhikṛit, Vaigāśi 26, Ṛishabha, śu. 15, Kēṭṭai, Monday.	Do.	States that, on the representation of Periya Timmarāja the endowment for offerings and worship during the festival’ conducted in the Sāḷuvarāyan-maṇḍapa at Tiruvaṇṇāmalai was found insufficient, the king made an additional grant of the village Gāṅgēyanallūr in Paṅgaḷa-nāḍu on the north bank of the Cheyyāru in Palkunra-kōṭṭam.
240	Puduppāḷaiyam─Slab set up in the village.	Do.	Immaḍi Timmayadēva-Mahārāya, son of Bhujabalarāya Sāḷuva Narasiṅgarāya.	`Śaka 1415, Pramādīcha, Kumbha, śu. 10, Saturday, Punarpūśma.	Do.	Registers a gift by the king, of the village Śirupākkam alias Timmarāyapuram in Murugamaṅgala-parru in Tachchūrnāḍu on the northern bank of the river cheyyār, for offerings and worship to the god during the service instituted by him in the temple at Tiruvaṇṇāmalai.
241	Two other slabs set up in the same village	….	….	….	Do.	Fragmentary. In characters of the 12th century A. D. Seems to record details of provision made for lamps, offerings, etc., to the deities in a temple (name lost).
242	Pillar set up in front of the Gaṇapati temple in the same village.	Rāshṭrakūṭa	Kannaradēva ‘who took Kachchi and Tañjai’.	26th year	Do.	States that Paramaiyan who is called Vīraśola adhikāri made a gift of gold for a perpetual lamp before the image of Gaṇapati enshrined in the gōpura constructed by him in the temple of Ūruḍai-Perumāḷ alias Tiruvachchirupattudēva at Vaśugūr in Vaśugūr-nāḍu, subdivision of Palkunra-kōṭṭam.
243	Stone set up in a field to the north of the same village.	Sāḷuva	Immaḍi Timmayyadēva-Mahārāja, son of Bhujabalarāya Sāḷuva Narasiṁharāya.	Śaka 1416, Ānanda, Mīna, śu. 10, Friday, Pūśam.	Do.	Records the grant by Tirumalai-Nāyaka, of the taxes due from the Kaikkōḷas, Śeṭṭis, Vāṇiyar, etc., of Kēśavapperumāḷ-ēndal alias Adiruṅkalar-perumāḷnallūr in Murugamaṅgalap-parru in Tachchūr-nāḍu for providing plantain fruits to the god at Tiruvaṇṇāmalai for the merit of Narasā-Nāyaka.
244	Rāppalūr.─North wall of the central shrine in the Tirukkāmēśvara temple.	….	….	Vīkrama, Tai 5	Do.	In characters of the 16th century A. D. Incomplete. Seems to register a gift of land by the ūravar of Kāmappullūr for the Mahānavami festival in the temple of Tirukkāmēśvara Nāyanār in the village for the merit of Timmappa-Nāyaka.
245	North and west walls of the same shrine	Vijayanagara	Achyutadēvarāya-Mahārāya	Śaka 14[6]2, Vikāri, Siṁha, ba. 13, Monday.	Do.	Registers the appointment of some priests for worship in the temple and an endowment of land as archchanā-vṛitti to them as the gift of Ayyan Varadappayyan. The endowed land is said to have been released from mortgage held by Villavarāyar Bagavān (See No. 250 below).
246	Same wall	Do.	Do.	Śaka 1454, Nandana, Chittirai 12.	Do.	Registers gift of land for the expenses of worship, etc., to the goddess whose image was set up by the nagaraṭṭār of Seṅgapputtēri and Kāmapullūr in the temple of Tirukkāmēśuram-uḍaiya-Tambirānār.
247	Pillar on the maṇḍapa in front of the central shrine.	Chōḷa	Parakēsarivarman ‘who took the head of Vīra-Pāṇḍya.’	5th year (in words)	Do.	Register a gift of land for a lamp in the temple of Śrīkāmai-Nakkar by the Aiyāran alias Nūrreṇmak-Kavaraśeṭṭi,. son of Māyilaṭṭi, a merchant of Periya-angāḍi at Tañjāvūr.
248	Another pillar in the same place	Do.	Do.	Do.	Do.	Registers a similar gift of land for a lamp in the temple by Tiruvaḍigaḷ alias Piritirāma-Śeṭṭi, son of Pārthivaśēkharanof Kōliyakkuḍi, a merchant of Kōmal in Sōṇāḍa.