PALLAVA
INSCRIPTIONS
APPENDIX
A
Inscriptions of Miscellaneous
Kadava chiefs
No. 261.
(A. R. No. 355 of 1923).
Perunagar (Pennagaram),
Conjeeveram Taluk, Chingleput District.
On the south wall of the central
shrine in the Brahmapurisvara temple.
[1] in the
Chingleput district.
No. 262.
(A. R. No. 115 of 1904).
Tirttanagari, Cuddalore Taluk,
South Arcot District.
On the South wall of the central
shrine in the Sivankuresvara temple.
This is a verse inscription of Atkoli
Kadavarkon, the chief of Kudal, remitting the taxes perum-padikaval
and vetti for providing offerings to, and maintaining a perpetual lamp
in the temple of, and god Polittinaimanagar (i.e.,) Tirttanagari. The donor was an ancestor of
Kopperunjingadeva (see No. 263 below) and flourished during the reign of the
Chola king Rajaraja II (A.R. No.
486 of 1921).
No. 263.
(A. R. No. 74 of 1918).
Vriddhachalam, Vriddhachalam
Taluk, South Arcot District.
On the second gopura (right of
entrance) of the Vriddhagirisvara temple.
This inscription consisting of 11
verses in Tamil and praising the family of Kadava chiefs, was engraved under
orders of Arasanarayanan Alappirandan Virasekharan alias Kadavarayan on the
âGandaradittan-vasalâ in the Vriddhagirisvara temple at Vriddhachalam. The verses themselves do not give any historical
information, but the prose passages prefixed to some of them give the following
genealogy for the Kadava chiefs.
Valandanar
alias Kadavarayar

Atkolliyar
alias Kadavarayar

Elisaimogan Kadavarayar, Arasanarayanan Kachchiyarayarâ
who conquered the four quartersâ alias Kadavarayar

Alappirandan Virasekharan alias
Kadavarayan,
âwho destroyed kudal
in S 1108 (= A.D. 1186).â
The last-mentioned chief viz.,
Alappirandan Virasekharan alias Kadavarayan is also stated to have
proceeded due west of the âGandaradittan-vasalâ in the Saka 1106 (A.D. 1184), destroyed
Kudal belonging to Karkataka-Marayan and the country of Adiyaman and planted
there his flag with the figure of Hanuman on it. From the context we have to take âGandaradittan-vasalâ as the gopura
where this inscription is found.
The Kudal mentioned above may be identified with the village Tirttamalai
in the Salem District (A.R. No. 660 of 1905).
A copy of the present inscription
is also found in the gopura of the Kripapurisvara temple at
Tiruvennainallur (No. 264 below).
No. 264.
(A. R. No. 463 of 1921).
Tiruvennainallur, Tirukkoyilur
Taluk, South Arcot District.
On the inner wall of the gopura,
left of entrance, in the Kripapurisvara temple.
This damaged inscription is
identical with the previous record found at Vriddhachalam.
No. 265.
(A. R. No. 49 of 1909).
Tirukkadaiyur, Mayavaram taluk,
Tanjore District.
On the third gopura of the
Amritaghatesvara temple, right of entrance.
This inscription consists of three verses in Tamil in praise
of the Kadava chief who made the ruler of the land bordering the river
Kaveri his subordinate, by taking from him the tiger banner.
[1] S.I.I. Vol. IV, No. 634.
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