South Indian Inscriptions

INSCRIPTIONS COLLECTED DURING THE YEAR 1906

KULOTTUNGACHOLA

No. 357

(A. R. No. 357 of 1906)

Tiruchirapalli District, Pudukkottai State, Kudumiyamalai.

Sikhanathasvami Temple --- On The North Wall Of The Second Prakara.

Trib. Kulottunga Choladeva --- 18^th Year. 

This registers a gift of puravu land, two ma in extent, at Alagiyamanavala chaturvedimangalam by Kannan Edirillipperumal alias Kulottungasola Kadambarayan of Uratturkurram in Kunrusul nadu stated to be a division of Irattapadi konda valanadu, to one Balasrayan Singan alias Narpattennayira nambi of Adanur, who was to provide offerings to the goddess Periya – Nachchiyar during the early morning service in the temple at Tirunalakkunram in the same nadu. 

No. 359

(A. R. No. 359 of 1906)

Tiruchirapalli District, Pudukkottai State, Kudumiyamalai.

Sikhanathasvami Temple --- On The Same Wall.

Tribh. Kulottunga-Choladeva --- 15^th Year 

This records a gift of 10 ma of land as kudininga-devadanam at Visalur in Annavayil – kurram, after purchasing the same from the Urar of the place, by Nachchi Malaiyalvi daughter (?) of Periyanattachariyan of Tirukkodungunram to provide for the supply of 60 kalam of paddy every year at 6 kalam per ma of land, to the temple at Tirunalakkunram. 

No. 364

(A. R. No. 364 of 1906)

Tiruchirapalli District, Pudukkottai State, Kudumiyamalai.

Sikhanathasvami Temple --- On The Same Wall.

Tribh. Kulottunga Choladeva--- 35^th Year.

The inscription is said to have been copied over in the 3^rd year of Sundara pandyadeva from its original position on the wall and tiers on the north side of the davana-mandapa, as in its place a new mandapa had to be erected to enshrine the god Tirunattapperuman. The order for this recopy is said to have been issued by the officer (?) Ponnan Gangeyan of Arrur the (the same who figures in No 362 above), on Margali, ba. 5, Saturday, Makha (=A.D. 1218, December 9. The day happens to be Sunday.)

This records an undertaking given by the porkoyil-kaikkola soldiers of the three regiments of Konadu alias Irattapadikondasola – valanadu, to the temple at Tirunalakkunram in Kunrisul-nadu to collect among themselves every year a specified quantity of paddy required for the several items of daily worship and offerings to God Kadkkola Nayakar and his consort consecrated by them in the temple, and an amount of 25 kasu for the expenses of the tiruppavadai-amudu offering to the deities on the three occasions of festival in the temple in the months of Margali, Masi and Panguni.

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