South Indian Inscriptions

INSCRIPTIONS COLLECTED DURING THE YEAR 1905-1906

MARAVARMAN KUKASEKHARA I

No. 28 (Page No. 22)

(A. R. No. 28 of 1906)

Tanjavur District, Mayuram Taluk, Tirukkadaiyur

Amritaghatesvara Temple –On The North Wall

Of The MandapaIn Front Of The Central Shrine 

Maravarma. Kilasekhara I – Date Lost. 

The king is given the attribute “who was pleased to take every country”.  The inscription is mutilated and incomplete.  The date portion preserved is 2 *year …su 7, Friday, Asvati (probably January 16, A.D. 1293).  The object of the record is to register a gift on nine ma and odd of land, to the temple of Kalakaladeva by one Saduran Kesavappaerimal of the village Seluvattur in Pandimandalam after purchasing the same and getting it made tax-free by the sabha of Tirukkadavur.  The land appears to have been previously endowed for a flower garden to a Pidari temple by the same donor, and passed on to private ownership subsequent to the 13^th year of perumal Sundara-Pandya.  The details however are not clear.

No. 46 (Page No. 43)

(A. R. No. 46 of 1906)

Tanjavur, Mayuram Taluk, Tirukkadaiyur

Amritaghatesvara Temple –On The Same Base

Mar. Kulasekhara-34th Year (A.D. 1301).

The details of the date are given as Kanya su. 7, Sunday, Mula and yield the equivalent A.D. 1301. September 10.The object of record is to register a joint resolution of the three assemblies kilkurru-Brahmadesangalilar, Agara-Brahmadesangalilar and Vellala-Urgalilar of jayangondasola-valanadu to set apart 10 out of the 35 veli of land belonging to them by purchase in the tirunamattukkani village Ponparri, for burning 40 perpetual lamps in the temple of Kalakaladevar for the welfare of the king (Ulagudaiya-Perumal).  The occasion for this gift is stated to be that their prayer to the god was answered by way of the king having resumed for himself the administration of their nadu from his younger brother, and thus having enabled them to return to their own homes from other regions to which they had fled owing to the disturbed state of the country for a long time, and where they had to suffer great privations and miseries. 

No. 59 (Page No. 56)

(A. R. No. 59 of 1906)

Tanjavur District, Mayuram Taluk, Tirumayanam.

Brahmapurisvara Temple-On The Same Wall

Mar. Kulasekhara I – 35th Year (A.D. 1302-3) 

The king is given the attribute “who was pleased to take all countries" the details of date are given as Rishable, su. 14, Monday, Mula, which probably correspond to A.D. 1302, May 14.  But the tithi was ba. 2 on this date.  This stated to be copy of an order of the king (Konerinmaikondan) to the effect that the capital amount out of which taxes were being paid up to the 34th year of his reign on the village Tirumaiyanavilagam alias Taniyanaiyittaperumal-nallur which was the tirunamattukkani and tiruvilakkuppuram of the temple, were now to be remitted in favour of the temple and the village, entered as tax-free in the registers so as to provide for offering and worship to the god during the service in the name of the king, and for repairs to the temple.  The signatories to the order were the officers (?) Tunjalurudaiyan and Pallavarayan. 

No. 98 (Page No. 89)

(A. R. No. 98 of 1906)

South Arcot District, Tirukkoyilur Taluk, Jambai

Jambunatha Temple-On The North Wall Of The Same Prakara

Tribh. Kullasekhara (Mar. Kulasekhara I)-33rd Year (A.D.1300-1) 

This registers the alienation of 900 kuli of dry land at Mananduyyaperumal-nallur, which was a tax-free devadana of the temple of Tantonri-Aludaiya-Nayanar at Sanbai alias Virarajendrasolapuram in Vanagoppadi-nadu on the northern bank of the Pennai in favour of a Brahmana of Manalur by name Tirukkotti-Alvan periyan Isurabattan for his services on the days of festival in the temple.  It is stated that the sthanikas received from him 31 panam in lump sum for the payment of kadamai on the land levied by the nadu. 

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