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THE CHOLAS
Kulōttuṅga-Chōḷa II.
38. From Peruveḷūr in the South Arcot district comes an inscription (No. 512)
dated in the 13th year of Kulōttunga-Chōḷa II which records the founding of
the temple of Tirukkōṭīśvaram-Uḍaiyār at
the village and an endowment of 12 vēli of
land for worship and offerings and for festivals therein and of another 12 vēli for
the maintenance of ten Bhaṭṭas versed in the Vēdas and the Śāstras, one Śaivāchārya and one Vaidya who were all provided with house-sites on the north and west
sides of the temple, by the chief Śeṅgēṇi-Nālāyiravan Ammaiyappan Rājēndra-śōla-Śambuvarāyan, a paḷḷi of Muññūr alias Rājanārāyaṇa-chaturvēdimaṅgalam
in Ōymā-nāḍu. He also provided kinds for the Veḷḷāḷa tenants of these Bhaṭṭas
and remitted the pāḍikāval taxes on the dēvadāna and the agaram lands. The donor
is already known to us from other inscriptions as a subordinate of this king
(No. 298 of 1929) as well as of his predecessor Vikrama-Chōḷa (No. 422 of 1922).
Rajaraja II.
39. Next in point of time is a record of Rājarāja II dated in his 8th year
(No. 474) from Elavānāśūr in the South Arcot district, which states that the tirukkalśārttu and the maṇḍapa in front called
the Ēliśaimōgan-tirumaṇḍapam in the tem-
ple was the work of Kūḍalūr Āḷappirandān Ēliśaimōgan alias Kulōttuṅgaśōla-
Kāḍavarāyan who is said to have had the proprietary right over Urumūr alias Śōlapāṇḍya-chaturvēdimaṅgalam, a brahmadēya in Mērkā-nāḍu, a subdivision
of Virudarājabhayaṅkara-vaḷanāḍu. He is evidently the same as the donor
of a maṇḍapa in the Vṛiddhāchalam temple, figuring in a record of the 15th year
of Kulōttuṅga II (No. 137 if 1900). A chief of the name Kūḍalūr Āḷappairandān
Mōgan alias Rājarāja-Kāḍavarāyan figures in an inscription of the 6th year of
this king from the same place (No. 166 of 1906), and in another inscription
(No. 170 of 1906) he bears the additional title Nāludikkumvenrān. All these
names seem to refer to one and the same individual. Urumūr was the name
by which Erumbūr in the Chidambaram taluk was known in ancient
times and it was situated in Mērkā-nāḍu, a subdivision of Virudarājabhayaṅka ra-vaḷanāḍu (No. 387 of 1913). No. 146 from Tiruchchendrai in the
Trichinopoly district is dated in the 14th year of Tribhuvanachakravartin
Rājarājadēva and records both the royal order and the uḷvari granting 20 vēli of land tax-free at Īśānamaṅgalam alias Virudarājabhayaṅkara-chaturvēdimaṅgalam to the temple, under the name Rājagambhīra[nallūr]. Rājagambhīra as a
probable surname of Rājarāja II is already known (Ep. Rep. for 1915, para. 26)
and hence this inscription may have to be assigned to that king.
Rajadhiraja II.
40. There are four inscriptions of Rājādhirāja II ranging from the 5th year
of his reign to the 13th. In one of these
(No. 475) dated in his 13th year he is
given the epithet Īlamum Maduraiyum koṇḍa (see No. 36 of 1906). In No. 364,
dated in his 7th year the Malayamān chief of Kiḷiyūr viz., Periya-uḍaiyān
Nīrērrān alias Rājarāja-Malaiyakularāyan is said to have made a gift of the
pāḍikāval and other taxes due from the dēvadāna village Parudal alias Malaiya-
vichchādiranallūr to the temple of Ūrbāgaṅkoṇḍār at Elavānāśūr. This chief
figures in No. 163 of 1906, dated in the 13th year of his predecessor Rājarāja II
as making a representation to the king for the gift of a land to the same temple.
Kulōṭṭuṅga-Chōḷa III.
41. Of the records attributable to Kulōttuṅga III, No. 20 from Jambukē-
śvaram is dated in the 7th year of Vīrarājēndradēva and records an oath of
allegiance taken by two persons, probably brothers, named Arayadēvan
Mūvāyirattoruvan alias Vīrarājēndra-Brahmādarāya-Muttaraiyan and Arayadēvan
Tiruveṇkāḍuḍaiyān alias Vikramaśōla-Brahmādarāya-Muttaraiyan to the chief
Vīrrirundān Śēman Akaḷaṅka-Nāḍālvān, undertaking that they would strictly
follow the latter’s orders in his rājakāryam (administration) as well as in vaniyam
(war ?) without ever betraying him, that they would not collude with other parties
mādarāyan borne by these chiefs they appear
to have been Brahmans, wielding power in
the region containing the temples of Tiruchchirāppaḷḷi-Uḍaiyār, TiruchchōrrutturaiUḍaiyār, Tirunāgēśvaram-Uḍaiyār, Tirukkāmakkōṭṭam--Uḍaiyār, and Tiruchchōrrutturaimurram-Uḍaiyār, by the gods of which the compact is sworn. Vīrrirundān Śēman
of this record has figured in a record of the time of Rājādhirāja II at Vaḷappūr-nāḍu
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