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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
PART-II TAMIL AND GRANTHA INSCRIPTIONS V. - INSCRIPTIONS AT PADAVEDU NO.78. ON THE EAST AND NORTH BASES OF THE AMMALAPPESVARA TEMPLE This inscription is dated in the year, which was current after the expiration of the Saka year 1180, and records a grant, which Rajagambhira-Sambuvarayan made to the temple of Ammaiappesvara. The name of the object of the grant must be contained in the final portion of the first line, which is buried underground. The donor is evidently identical with that Rajagambhira-Sambuvarayan, who is mentioned in a Tirumalai inscription (No.74), which seems to be dated in Saka 1157-58. It may be further conjectured, that the Ammaiappesvara Temple at Padavedu had received its name from Ammaiappan or Ammaiyappan, one of the birudas of another Sambuvarayan, who was a contemporary and probably a relation of Rajagambhira-Sambuvarayan. TRANSLATION Hail!
Prosperity! To-day, which is (the day of the nakshatra)
Revati and Monday, the seventh lunar day of the former half
of the month of Karkataka, which was current after the
Saka year one thousand one hundred and eighty (had passed),-I,
Rajagambhira-sambuvaraya[n] gave to the god, who is the lord of
the Ammaiappesvara (temple), as a divine gift . . . . .
excluding the divine gifts to the various temples (at) Elur,
including . . . the tax for the village-accountant, the tax on
Uvachchas, the tax on Ajivakas, the tax on looms, the tax on
goldsmiths, . . . . . the tax on oil-mills, . . . . . (and) the
paddy for the Vetti. No.79. ON THE SOUTH WALL OF THE AMMAIAPPESVARA TEMPLE This inscription is dated during the reign of Vira-Devaraya-maharayar (of Vijayanagara) and in the Pramadin year (i.e., Saka 1356). It records a grant to the Ammaiappa Temple. The name of the donor is obliterated. TRANSLATION Hail! On the tenth day of the month of Masi of the Pramadicha[1] year, which was current (during the reign) of the illustrious rajadhiraja rajaparamesvara, the illustrious Vira-Devaraya-maharayar, . . . . . I valavu was given by a dharmasasana to the lord Ammaiappa-nayanar. This meritorious gift shall last as long as the moon and the sun. He who shall injure this meritorious gift, [shall incur the sin of one has killed] a black cow on the bank of the Ganga.
No.80. ON THE SOUTH WALL OF THE AMMAIPPESVARA TEMPLE This inscription is dated during the reign of Vira-Devaraya-maharayar (of Vijayanagara) and in the Ananda year. (i.e.,Saka 1357). It records the gift of a village to the Ammaiappa Temple. The middle portion is defaced by three cracks. TRANSLATION Hail! On the 2nd day of the month of Adi on the Ananda year, which was current (during the reign) of the illustrious maharajadhiraja rajaparamesvara, the illustrious Vira-Devaraya-maharayar, I, Ulagananda-Vel Suryadeva, gave (the village of ) [Sa]lavaipparru by a dharmasasana to the lord Ammaiappa-nayanar. Accordingly (there follows) the signature (?) of Mullaya-rayan Vengada. NO.81. ON THE EAST WALL OF THE SOMANATHESVARA TEMPLE This inscription is dated in the Suka year, which was current after the expiration of the Saka year 1371, and during the reign of Virapratapa Praudha-Immadi-Devaraya-maharayar. This is the latest hitherto-known date of Devaraja II. In the preservedportion, mention is made of the kingdom of Padaividu (Padaivitttu rajyam),which belonged to Tondai-mandalam, of the right and left had castes[2] and of the Somanathesvara Temple at Padaividu. TRANSLATION Let there be prosperity! Hail! On the day of (the nakshatra) Uttiradam,[3] which corresponds to the Yoga Ayushmat and to Saturday, the thirteenth lunar day of the former half of the month of Simha of the Sukla year, which was current after the Saka year 1371 (had passed), while theillustrious mahamandalesvara, the conqueror of hostile kings, the destroyer of those kings who break their word, the destroyer of the three kings (of the South), who takens every country which he sees, but who never gives back a country which he has taken, the lord of the eastern, southern, western and northern oceans, the illustrious rajadhiraja rajaparamesvara, the illustrious Virapratapa, who has been pleased to the hunting of elephants, Praudha-Immadi-Devaraya-maharayar, was pleased to rule the earth,-the inhabitants of the kingdom (rajyam) of Padaividu, (which belongs) to Tondai-mandalam, the great men of the right hand and of the left hand,-at the temple of Somanathesvara-nayanar, the lord (of) Padaividu in the north-west (of) Muruga-mangala-parru, which borders on the Rajagambhira Hill (Rajagambhiran-malai)[4] . . . . . . [1] As Dr.Oppert has shown in
the Madras Journal of Literature and Science
for the year 1881.
p.276, the erroneous forms Pramoduta for the
two cyclic years Promoda and Pramaddin owe
their origin to some old versus memoriales, in two of
which we find Promodo âtha and Pramadi cha; in
course of time the two particles atha and cha were
mistaken for portions of the names themselves.
In Tamil the two wrong forms have entirely [2] Much interesting
information on the right and left hand castes in found in
Dr.Oppertâs âOn the Original Inhabitants of
Bharatavarsha or India,â [3] Sanskrit Uttarashadha. [4] This hill was probably called after Rajgambhira-Sambuvarayan; see the introduction of Nos.74 and 78.
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