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PANDYA INSCRIPTIONS
CHOLA-PANDYA VICEROYS
No. 151.
(A. R. No.
618-B of 1916.)
Sermadevi, Ambasamudram Taluk, Tirunelveli
District.
On the north wall of the central shrine, Ammainatha
Temple.
This inscription is
fragmentary and contains a portion of the Chola viceroy’s name. It is dated in the 14th year.
No. 152.
(A. R. No. 712 of 1916.)
Sermadevi, Ambasamudram Taluk, Tirunelvei District.
On the south wall of the mandapa in front of
a shrine, Ramasvamin temple.
This inscription, which
is damaged at several places, is dated in the 14th year of Sundara-Cholapandya
and registers a gift of land made by the sabha of
Nigarilisola-chaturvedimangalam for providing certain offerings to the image of
god Uyyakkondalvar in the temple of Nigarilisola-vinnagar.
No. 153.
(A. R. No. 700 of 1916.)
Sermadevi, Ambasamudram Taluk, Tirunelveli
District.
On the east wall of the central shrine, Ramasvamin
temple.
This epigraph dated in
the 15th year of Jatavarman Sundara-Cholapandya
registers a gift of pieces of land by a certain Parantakan-Nirainjan alias
Disai-Ayirattainnurruva Dasamadi…………viran for the maintenance of a watchman (tirumeykappu)
for the temple of Nigarilisola-vinnagar-Alvar. The donor appears to have belonged to a trading guild as indicated by
the name Disai-Ayirattainnurruvan borne by him.
No. 154.
(A. R. No. 111 of 1905.)
Mannarkoyil, Ambasamudram Taluk, Tirunelveli
District.
On the north wall of the Gopalasvamin temple.
This inscription is
dated in the 16th year of Jatavarman Sundara-Cholapandya
and states that the Chera king (Seramanar) Rajarajadevar
was present at the
western gopura of the temple of
Rajendrasola-vinnagar-Paramasvamigal while issuing the order making the ten veli
of land in Manabharana-chaturvedimangalam, a tax-free village belonging to the
temple, as kudininga-devadana to six persons, who in return had to
measure as vadakkadan 2600 kalam of paddy per year. The measure called anavaratadanan is
mentioned.
No. 155.
(A. R. No. 77 of 1907.)
Ambasamudram, Ambasamudram Taluk, Tirunelveli
District.
On the north wall of the Tirumulanathasvamin
temple.
This record dated kin
the 16th year of Jatavarman Sundara-Cholapandya
registers a gift of sheep and 6 palankasu by a vellalaof Vidivittankanallur, a hamlet of Rajaraja-chaturvedimangalam,
for maintaining a lamp in the temple of Tiruchchalaitturaiudaiya-Mahadeva.
No. 156.
(A. R. No. 72 of 1907.)
Ambasamudram, Ambasamudram Taluk, Tirunelveli
District.
On the north wall of the Tirumulanathasvamin
temple.
This is a damaged record
belonging to the 17th year of a certain …… Solapandya who
was evidently Jatavarman Sundara-Cholapandya. The name of God Tiruchchalaitturai-Isvarar in ……………………chaturvedimangalam
is mentioned as also some provision made for burning a lamp in this temple, the
details of which are lost.
No. 157.
(A. R. No. 619 of 1916.)
Sermadevi, Ambasamudram Taluk, Tirunelveli
District.
On the north and west walls of the central shrine,
Ammainathasvamin temple.
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This inscription is
issued on the 7th day of the 17th year of Sundara-Cholapandya is of interest in that its wording follows the conventional form adopted in
the Chola period for documents conveying lands. Two veli of land lying within the four boundaries
specified with meticulous detail, in the village called Kallur in Melvemba-nadu
in Mudigondasola-valanadu were given to the temple of
Srikayilasamudaiya-Mahadeva, at the request of Amman, after having
separated this land from the original division and constituting it into a new
unit called Sivapadasekharanallur from the 16th year of
Sundara-Chola’s viceroyalty. ‘Sivapadasekhara’ was a title of Rajaraja the Great and hence this
endowment was made in this honour. Certain taxes such as alagerudu-katchikkasu and
katchi-erudu-kasu were remitted on these lands, which were now made tax-free devadana. Sundara-Cholapandya is
described as having been seated in the western hall of the place at
Rajendra-solapuram at the time of issuing this order.
No. 158.
(A. R. No. 622 of 1916.)
Sermadevi, Ambasamudram Taluk, Tirunelveli
District.
On the south wall of the central shrine in the
Ammainathasvamin temple.
This inscription is
dated in the 17th year of Jatavarman Sundara-Cholapandya
registers a gift of 25 sheep by Ve[mba]n-Puvan, a merchant of
Vanavanmadevipuram in Irunjonadu, a subdivision of Rajaraja-Pandinadu, to the
temple of Kudarkudi-Mahadeva. Kudarkudi
was the original name of the present Kundalakkuttu, and is mentioned in the
Erukkangudi inscription of Srivallabha, the Early Pandya king among the places
wherein Iruppaikkudi-Kilavan had made some benefactions.
No. 160.
(A. R. No. 327 of 1916.)
Tiruvalisvaram, Ambasamudram Taluk, Tirunelveli
District.
On the north wall of the Valisvara temple.
This record is connected
with No. 161 below to which it is complementary, and was issued while Sundara-Cholapandyua
was seated in the western pavilion in the attattuveli in the palace
precincts at rajaendrasolapuram. It
relates to a gift of 5 veli of land by purchase from the mahasabha
of Rajaraja-chaturvedimangalam for the expenses of conducting festivals in the
temple of Tiruvalisvaram-udaiyar and for feeding 25 brahmanas and for
the reading of the Sivadharma. The income from his land was ordered to be utilized for the
above-mentioned items of charity by the king’s uncle (amman), as already
stated in the other record, from the 16th year of
Sundara-Solapandya’s reign.
No. 161.
(A. R. No. 332 of 1916.)
Tiruvalisvaram, Ambasamudram Taluk, Tirunelveli
District.
On the north wall of the valisvara temple.
This record is dated on
the 65th day of the 17th year of Jatavarman
Sundaracholapandya and is connected with No. 160 above. It was issued when the viceroy was seated in
the dinner hall on the seat called Rajendrasola-Atimurkhachchengirai in the
pavilion (chittirakudam) in the garden called Puttan to the north of
Madurai in Madakkulakkil, a subdivision of Madhurantaka-valanadu, on the 53rd
day of the 17th regnal year and was entered in the variyilidu
(tax register) on the 65th day of the same year. Under instructions from the Amman or
uncle of the viceroy, land in Kakkalur, a suburb of Rajaraja-chaturvedimangalam
was purchased and endowed to the temple of Tiruvalisvaram-udaiyar for
conducting festivals and for feeding brahmanas. Provision was also made for reading the Sivadharmam
in the temple referred to in the other record
from the same temple.
It may be noted that the
name of the seat on which the viceroy was seated was apparently derived from
the name of one of his officers Tirumandira olainayakam
Rajendrasola-Atimurkhachchengirai.
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No. 162.
(A. R. No. 102 of 1905.)
Ambasamudram, Abasamudram Taluk, Tirunelveli
District.
On the south wall of the Erichchavudaiyar temple.
This Vatteluttu record
dated in the 18th year of Jatavarman Sundara-Cholapandya
is engraved in the Erichchavudaiyar shrine, and the stones are somewhat
disarranged. The object of the record
seems to be the provision made for burning lamps in the shrines of
Tiruppottudaiyar and Mulasthanam-udaiyar at Tiruchchalaitturai in Rajarajachaturvedimangalam,
a brahmadeya in Mulli-nadu, a subdivision of
Mudigondasola-valanadu. Two other
disconnected fragments are found on some slabs embedded in the walls of the
same shrine.
No. 163.
(A. R. No. 83 of 1907.)
Ambasamudram, Ambasamudram Taluk, Tirunelveli
District.
On the west wall of the Perumal shrine in the
Tirumulanatha temple.
This record which is
dated in the 19th year of Jatavarman Sundara-Cholapandya
is very much damaged, but from the existing traces it is evident that it
registers a gift of twenty-five sheep by a person, whose name is obliterated,
for the maintenance of a lamp in the temple of Tiruchchalaitturai-Mahadeva at Rajaraja-chaturvedimangalam, a brahmadeya in Mulli-nadu, a subdivision of Mudigondasola-valanadu, a division of
Rajaraja-Pandinadu.
No. 164.
(A. R. No. 630 of 1916.)
Sermadevi, Ambasamudram Taluk, Tirunelveli
District.
On the south wall of the central shrine in the
Ammainathasvamin Temple.
This record is dated in 19th
year of Jatavarman Sundara-Cholapandya. It states that 2 veli of land which had been granted as devadana
to the temple of Kayilasamudaiyar at Nigarilisola-chaturvedimangalam by the
Cholapandya viceroy and which had been constituted into a separate revenue unit
under the name of Sivapadasekharanallur had originally been taken over for cultivation
by the urar who had the kani right over Kallur in Melvemba-nadu,
a subdivision of Mudigondasola-valanadu. But as they were unable to pay the taxes thereon, they relinquished
their cultivation rights in favour of the devakanmis of the temple, who
now took over the lands, and gave an undertaking to the Puravari-tina-kkalattar and the Varippottagamudaiyar,
the revenue officials, not to interfere in any matter whatsoever with the lands
in future.
The record is connected
with No. 157 above in its subject matter.
No. 165.
(A. R. No. 81 of 1907.)
Ambasamudram, Ambasamudram Taluk, Tirunelveli
District.
On the north wall of the mandapa in the
Tirumulanatha temple.
This is dated I the 20th
year of Jatavarman Sundara-Cholapandya and registers a gift of buffaloes
by a private person for maintaining a lamp in the temple of Mulastha-an
mudaiyar at Tiruchchalaitturai in Rajaraja-chaturvedimangalam, a brahmadeya
in Mulli-nadu.
No. 166.
(A. R. No. 625 of 1916.)
Sermadevi, Ambasaudram Taluk, Tirunelveli District.
On the north wall of the central shrine,
Ammainathasvamin temple.
This belongs to Jatavarman Sundara-Cholapandya, as his
title Jatavarman is given, and it registers the usual gift of fifty sheep by
Araiyan Ambalanathan for burning a lamp in the temple of
Srikayilayam-udaiya-Mahadeva. The
regnal year is [20].
No. 167.
(A. R. No. 395 of 1929-30.)
Attur, Tiruchchendur taluk, Tirunelveli District.
On the north wall of the central shrine in the
Somanathesvara temple.
This record registers a
gift of fifty sheep made by a soldier belonging to the battalion called sundara-solapondyatterina-palaiyaral
for burning a lamp in the temple of Somanathadeva at Arrur. There are several instances in which
battalions were named after the name or surname of the reigning king, and the
soldier of this record belonged to one such regiment named after
Sundara-Cholapandya. From later Pandya
records, it is learnt that a Pandya army was stationed at Perungulam, a village
situated near Arrur, land this Chola regiment may also have been in occupation
of that village at this period.
As records of this
viceroy later than the 23rd year are not known the date read
doubtfully as [30] may probably be 20.
No. 168.
(A. R. No. 64 of 1905.)
Anaimalai, Madurai Taluk, Madurai District.
On the rock in the rock-cut tempfle of
Narasimha.
This inscription of the
21st year of the viceroy registers a gift of sheep by a private
person for a lamp in the temple of god Narasingadeva at Anaimalai.
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No. 169.
(A. R. No. 65 of 1905.)
Anaimalai, Madurai Taluk, Madurai District.
On the rock in the rock-cut temple of
Narasimha.
This inscription of Jatavarman
Sundara-Cholapandya is dated in the 21st year of his rule. It is incomplete, but from the available portion it appears to refer to
some gift made for the maintenace of a perpetual lamp in the temple of
lNarasimha, by the wife of sendan-Bhattan of Iraiyanaraisur, which is a place
in the Tirukkoyilur taluk of the South Arcot District. Anaimalai is said to be situated in Kiliraiyanmuttam
in Rajendrasola-valanaldu, a district of Rajaraja-Pandinadu.
No. 170.
(A. R. No. 330 of 1916.)
Tiruvalisvaram, Ambasamudram Taluk, Tirunelveli
District.
On the north wall of the central shrine in the
Valisvaram Temple.
This inscription belongs
to the 21st year of Jatavarman Sundara-Cholapandya
and registers a gift of 35 cows by a maid-servant of queen
Ulagudaiya-pirattiyar named Bhaktargal-pandaram, for burning a perpetual lamp
to god Tiruvalisvaram-udaiya, Emberuman at Rajaraja-chaturvedimangalam, a brahmadeya
in Mulli-nadu.
No. 171.
(A. R. No. 99 of 1924.)
Perichchikoyil, Tiruppattur Taluk, Ramanathapuram
District.
On the south wall of the Bhairava shrine in the
Sugandhavanesvara temple.
This record is dated in
the 21st year of the viceroy who is referred to as Jatavarman
alias Udaiyar [Vi]rasola pandyadeva and registers a gift
of land by a certain Kulasani Maluvamanikkam alias
Ahirajaraja-Pungnra-nadalvan for providing offerings to the image of god
Kshetrapala at Menmarudur alias Jayangonda-solanallur in
Gangaikondasola-valanadu, a division of Rajaraja-Pandinadu.
This record appears to
belong to the first viceroy of the name of Sundara-Chola-pandya, as a different
viceroy with the high regnal year of 21 cannot be otherwise accounted for.
No. 172.
(A. R. No. 473 of 1929-30.)
Attur, Tiruchchendur Taluk, Tirunelveli District.
On a stone in the pavement of the amma shrine in
the Somanathesvara temple.
This inscription dated
in the 21st year of Jatavarman Sundara-Cholapandya is
damaged at the end. It registers some
gift made by Lokaditta-kkuttan of the Bharadvaja-gotra, a resident of
Arrur-Sendamangalam for burning a lamp in the temple of Somanathesvara alias
Ten-Tiruppuvanamudaiyar at Arrur-Sendamangalam, a brahmadeya in
Kuda-nadu, a subdivision of Uttamasola-valanadu. Ten-Tiruppuvanam must have been so
named after the god of the
same name in the Ramanathapuram district.
No. 173.
(A. R. No. 4 of 1931-32.)
Alagarkoyil, Melur Taluk, Madurai District.
On a pillar in the Sundara-Pandyan-mandapa in the temple.
This record is dated in
the [22]nd year of a
certain Jatavarman Sri-Cholapandya and registers some gift, the details
of which are lost, by a certain brahmana lady of
Solapandya-chaturvedimangalam, a brahmadeya in Karunilakkudi-nadu, for
maintaining a nilai-vilakku in the temple of god
Tirumalirunjolai-ninraruliya-Paramasvamin in Kiliraniyamattam in
Rajendrasola-valanadu, a division of Rajaraja-Pandinadu. He may perhaps be identified with Jatavarman
Sundara-Cholapandya for whom records of the 22nd year are known.
No. 174.
(A. R. No. 438 of 1909.)
Adanur, Kovilpatti Taluk, Tirunelveli District.
On the north and west walls of the Adilingesvara
temple..
This record consists of
several disjointed pieces of which one mentions the 23rd year
of Jatavarman Sundara-Cholapandya and to Adanur in Surangudi-nadu. The name of the god Nattisvarattu-Alvar is
mentioned in another piece.
No. 175.
(A. R. No. 617 of 1916.)
Sermadevi, Ambasaudram Taluk, Tirunelveli District.
On the north wall of the central shrine in the
Ammainathasvain temple.
This inscription dated
in the 23rd year of Jatavarman Sundara-Cholapandya relates to
the sale of some land by the mahasabha of
Rajaraja-chaturvedimangalam. The record
being damaged after this portion further details as to the object of the
transfer of land, etc., are not known.
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