Kailasanatha temple – on the rock to the west 

This is damaged and is engraved partly in Grantha and partly in Tamil. It seems to record the gift of a land to provide for worship in the temple for the merit of king Sundara-raja by (his minister ?) Dvaravatipati, called in the Tamil portion, by the name Alagapperumal Sokkanar Anmaiyalagiyan alias Duvarapativelan.  

No. 418 (Page No 318)

(A. R. No. 418 of 1907)  

Periyakulam, Periyakulam Taluk, Madurai District

Kailasanatha temple – on the same rock 

This is also damaged like the above and seems to record the same gift.

No. 419 (Page No 318)

(A. R. No. 419 of 1907)  

Periyakulam, Periyakulam Taluk, Madurai District

On a slab set up in a field near the village. 

This is dated in Sarvari year, Adi 19, and is written in modern characters. It records a sarvamanva gift of land by Balaya-Nayakkar to help in the maintenance of a chattram established by Sasimuka-Minakshi-Nayakkar in front of the temple of Minakshi-Sundaresvarasvami at Tiruvalavay (Madurai).

No. 438 (Page No 333)

(A. R. No. 438 of 1907)  

Sinnamanaur, Periyakulam Taluk, Madurai District

Lakshminarayana temple – on the same wall 

Published in S.I.I. Vol. XIV, No. 54, foot note. 

No. 444 (Page No 335)

(A. R. No. 444 of 1907)  

Sinnamanaur, Periyakulam Taluk, Madurai District

Lakshminarayana temple – on the same wall 

This is a fragment of an inscription dated in the 2nd year of a king whose name is lost. It seems to record a gift of land as tiruvidaiyattam. Mention is made of Irandagattar. (?)

No. 453 (Page No 340)

(A. R. No. 453 of 1907)  

Sinnamanaur, Periyakulam Taluk, Madurai District

Lakshminarayana temple – on a stone lying in front 

This is a Vattelutu fragment mentioning Tirunadu[vil]-Bhattan and Pallava-[rai]yan. 

No. 454 (Page No 341)

(A. R. No. 457 of 1907)

Sinnamanaur, Periyakulam Taluk, Madurai District

Lakshminarayana temple – on a pillar lying

in the same place 

This is also in Vatteluttu and states that this pillar was set up by Arugan Baradvaji Narayana-Nakkan of Tirupputtur.

No. 458 (Page No 342)

(A. R. No. 458 of 1907)  

Periyakottai, Palani Taluk, Madurai District

Cholesvara temple – on the south wall of the central shrine 

This is a fragment of a Kongu inscription with another of a pandya king and a third dated in the 11th year of a king (name lost), The first records the gift of a lamp by one Puman Araiyan to the temple of Nachchinarkiniyar. The second seems to provide for offerings and a lamp in the shrine of Tirukkamakkotta-nachchiyar in the same temple.

No. 470 (Page No 349)

(A. R. No. 470 of 1907)  

Periyakottai, Palani Taluk, Madurai District

Kadali-Narasimha-Perumal temple – on the north, west and south walls 

This is dated in the cyclic year Jaya and Chittirai 5, and introduces some chief by name Virappa-Nayakkarayyan with the grandiloquent Vijayanagara titles Mahamandalesvara etc., and caliming to have extracted tribune from every country. His agent, Nayinatta-Nayakkar, son of Dasiri-Nayakkar and grandson of Chinnappa-Nayakkar of Virupatshi in Anda-nadu is said to have constructed the temple of Kadirinatha-Perumal, dug a tank and given 4 ma of land irrigated by this tank for the upkeep of the temple, He also endowed lands for the maintenance of twelve Brahmanas (doing worship therein) and 3 other persons for other services.

No. 472 (Page No 350)

(A. R. No. 472 of 1907)  

Periyakottai, Palani Taluk, Madurai District

On a rock in a field  to the west of the village. 

This is incised in modern characters, and is damaged, it is dated in Jaya, Vaigasi 17, and seems to register a gift of land to a certain Sivala Peddina[ya*]kkan, son of Bomminayakkan who was a servant of Tirumalai Chinna Pappanayakkar. 

No. 477 (Page No 354)

(A. R. No. 477 of 1907)  

Kuttalam, Mayuram Taluk, Tanjavur District

Cholesvara temple – on the south wall of the central shrine 

This is dated in the 4th regnal year of an unnamed king. This record an order of Kurralamudaiyan Ishabadevan Vikkavinayakar alias Jayadarappallavaraiyar to a certain Kavanurudaiyan asking him to re-enter into the tax-remission register 4 veli of land which had been included in the brahmadeya granted by him and to reallot the land at 2 veli to the temple of Vikrama-Cholisvaramudaiyar and two to the Brahmanas. Of the land found in excess in the survey, one veli was to be allotted as tirunamattukkani to the same temple.  Kurralam is said to be situated in Jayangondasola valanadu. The chief figures again below in No. 479 (of Kulottunga III). 

No. 486 (Page No 364)

(A. R. No. 486 of 1907)  

Kuttalam, Mayuram Taluk, Tanjavur District

Uttaravedisvara temple – on the same wall

Par. Rajendradeva year 5: 1055-56 A.D.

The inscription begins with the short introduction mentioning the king’s conquest of Irattapadi, planting of his pillar of victory at Kollapuram and his anointment of victors having captured the elephants, horses, harem and treasury of the terrified Ahavamalla at Koppam. Portion at the end of the inscription is lost. It registers an endowment of 25 kasu by a merchant of Gangaikondasolapuram by name Venkadan Adavallan, for feeding with the interest thereon some itinerant Sivayogins after the daily midday service in the temple of Sonnavararivar at Vingunir-Tirutturutti in Tiruvalandur-nadu, a division of Jayagondasola-valanadu. The amount was deposited with the sivabramanas of the temple. The gift is said to have been made to bring strength of arms to the king.

No. 487 (Page No 365)

(A. R. No. 487 of 1907)  

Kuttalam, Mayuram Taluk, Tanjavur District

Uttaravedisvara temple – on the east wall of the central shrine

Rajendra-Chola I : Year 8 : 1020-21 A.D. 

The inscription begins with introduction Tirumanni valara etc. This registers a sale of half veli land (made tax-free) by the sabha of villavan-mahadevi-chaturvedimangalam a brahmadeya in Tiruvalundur-nadu to the temple of Tirukkarrali-Mahadeva at Vingunir-Tirutturutti for 45 kasu. 

No. 488 (Page No 366)

(A. R. No. 488 of 1907)  

Kuttalam, Mayuram Taluk, Tanjavur District

Uttaravedisvara temple – on the south wall of the central shrine 

This is a single verse in Sanskrit in Grantha characters stating that this is an edict of Sambhu having his residence at Kalyanalaya.

No. 494 (Page No 375)

(A. R. No. 494 of 1907)  

Kuttalam, Mayuram Taluk, Tanjavur District

Uttaravedisvara temple – on the south wall of the same mandapa 

This  is dated Saka 1303, Durmati, Rishabha, ba. 6, Wednesday, Avittam (A.D. 1381, May 15) and mentions Kampana-Udaiyar at about the end. This is much damaged and seems to record a remission of some taxes consequent on a draught and famine (?) in the country during the (previous) year Raudri.

No. 502 (Page No 381)

(A. R. No. 502 of 1907)  

Madurai, Madurai Taluk, Madurai District

Madanagopala temple – on a detached stone lying in the premises

Name of King lost.  Year 38 

This is a fragment of a bigger inscription in Vatteluttu alphabet, recording the gift of a ma and half of land 100 sheep to provide for the aradhayama (midnight) service and for burning a perpetual lamp in the temple of Tirutturutti-Mahadeva. The donor’s name is not known. Perumur in Anda-nadu and another Village Pandiyur are mentioned.

No. 503 (Page No 381)

(A. R. No. 503 of 1907)  

Madurai, Madurai Taluk, Madurai District

Madanagopala temple – on another stone

Sadaiya-Maran.  Year 2+1 

This is a damaged Vatteluttu fragment of an inscription of Sadaiya-Maran (Rajasimha) recording a gift of land to the deity Tirutturutti-bhatara in Perumur in Anda-nadu) 

Published in S.I.I., Vol. XIV, No. 48. 

No. 504 (Page No 382)

(A. R. No. 504 of 1907)  

Madurai, Madurai Taluk, Madurai District

Madanagopala temple – on a third stone 

This is also a Vettelutu inscription dated in the * +1+1st year of a king whose name is lost. It records a gift of 100 sheep for a perpetual lamp in the temple at Tirutturutti a devadana in Anda-nadu, by a lady named Kunranjundari of Korravayil-seri in Mada-Madirai. 

No. 505 (Page No 382)

(A. R. No. 505 of 1907)  

Madurai, Madurai Taluk, Madurai District

Madanagopala temple – on a fourth stone 

This is a fragment in Vetteluttu recording a gift of cows by a Military officer (padaittalaivan).

No. 508 (Page No 384)

(A. R. No. 508 of 1907)  

Madurai, Madurai Taluk, Madurai District

Madanagopala temple – on the 14th stone in the same place 

This states that this (i.e. the place where the stone should have originally stood) is the flower-garden of (endowed by) Elulagumuludumudaiyal. The stone bears at the top the Pandya crest viz., two fish with a trisula between them and above them all the figures of the crescent and Sun. 

No. 509 (Page No 385)

(A. R. No. 509 of 1907)  

Madurai, Madurai Taluk, Madurai District

Madanagopala temple – on the 15th and 16th stones in the same place 

These are two more fragments, the first of which seems to mention a devadana with kadamai and kudimai and the second, a temple at  . . . . . . dainallur. 

No. 510 (Page No 385)

(A. R. No. 510 of 1907)  

Madurai, Madurai Taluk, Madurai District

Madanagopala temple – on 13 other stones in the same place 

There are actually 15 stones (not 13) on which these inscribed portions are engraved. Their sequence with each other is not very clear partly because the stones are all dis-arranged and some of them are mutilated and damaged. They have been, however, so grouped into four sections, each with a few pieces, that the contents of each line of a piece may be read in continuity with the corresponding line of other pieces. The inscription is dated in Kaliyuga 4[6]47, corresponding to Saka 1468 and cyclic year parabhava and purports to give the genealogy of Mahamandalesvara Ramaraja-Tirumalaya-Maharaja i.e., Tirumala I, the Karnataka king beginning from Vishnu and coming down through a long line of chiefs. The object of the inscription seems to be the establishment of a hundred villages for Brahmanas– both Vaishnava and others – and apportionment of shares of land for their living ; by Tirumala who is stated also to have provided for worship in Siva and Vishnu temples and for their repairs. The temples and the lands are not specifically known.  

No. 511 (Page No 388)

(A. R. No. 511 of 1907)  

Madurai, Madurai Taluk, Madurai District

Madanagopala temple – on the west wall 

This is dated in Saka 1520.  Hevilambi, Vrischika 22, Saptami, Saturday, Pushya corresponding to A.D. 1597, November 21 (?). It was a Monday and the Nakshtra was Magha. It is an unfinished inscription purporting to register an order issued to the king (?) as the Son (Nankumaran), by saint-goddess Goda while she was seated with her lord of Srirangam (Vadaperunkoyil) on the Pallikkattil throne called “Alagiya-Manavalan” in her home at Villipputtur. The object of the record is not known as it stops abruptly. In the Sanskrit verse with which the inscription opens, she is called the daughter of Vishnuchitta (Periyalvar).

No. 573 (Page No 385)

(A. R. No. 573 of 1907)  

Nandaluru, Rajampet Taluk, Cuddapah District

Saumyanatha temple – on the 4th tier of the south base 

This is built in at the beginning and is also incomplete. In the body of the inscription is mentioned the 8th year of Kulottunga-Chola with details of date Kumbha, ba. 14, Friday, Sravana, Sivaratri corresponding to A.D. 1141, February 7. The nakshatra was of the previous day when it ended at 88 of that day. 

On this date Madhurantaka Pottappichchola Siddharasan is stated to have granted house-sites and lands to 52 Brahmanas and a flower garden (for the temple). With this is found a two line piece of a different inscription dated in Virodhikrit year, recording some gift (of money) to the temple at Kulottungasola-chaturvedimangalam by a certain Malaikiniyaninran Adinadan of Oyma-nadu to secure for himself ‘long life, health and prosperity’.

No. 575 (Page No 394)

(A. R. No. 575 of 1907)  

Nandaluru, Rajampet Taluk, Cuddapah District

Saumyanatha temple – on the lower most portion of the south wall

Of the same mandapa 

This gives a list of the tiruvidaiyattam lands at Pottappi belonging to god Sokkapperumal of Nirandanur. These comprised seven plots measuring in all 7050 kulli in extent.

No. 577 (Page No 396)

(A. R. No. 577 of 1907)  

Nandaluru, Rajampet Taluk, Cuddapah District

Saumyanatha temple – on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th tiers of the

West base of the same mandapa

The inscription comprises three disjointed pieces. This is much damaged. It purports to record a charter given by Bhujabala Viranarayana Ahavamalladeva-Maharaja to all the mahajanas of Pottapi-nadu, the nature of which is not clear. Mention is made of two families of Solappadi supplying oil to the temple for lamps, who seem to have been deprived of some privileges enjoyed since the time of their forebears and hence threatened to commit suicide (?) and were dissuaded from such a step by Ahavamalla himself by resorting them now. We are not vouch-safed the details of this incident by the mutilated state of the record. The record is signed at the end by three officers of the king, two of whom are given as Divyadhikari Bhaskara-Bhattopadhyaya of the [Va] sishtha-gotra, son of Narayanarya and Vasudeva-Bhatta, son of Appana-Bhattopadhyaya. The third whose name is lost is called the dharmadhikari of Ahavamalladeva.

No. 589 (Page No 410)

(A. R. No. 589 of 1907)  

Nandaluru, Rajampet Taluk, Cuddapah District

Saumyanatha temple – on the north and west bases of the central shrine

This is a Telugu inscription dated Saka 1[5]41, Siddharthi, Sravana, su. 12, Wednesday corresponding to A.D. 1619, August 11. It was Nija-Sravana month. The record states that a certain Chennammagaru a lady of the royal household of Tiruvengalanatharaja, with a view to secure sasvata-parama-pada without any more birth in the mundane world, offered endless worship to god Saumyanathasvami at Nelandaluru otherwise known as Nirantarapura, and made a number of gifts to the deity such as a golden crown, conch and discus, golden plates for the hands and feet, a golden kalasa over the vimana and made provision for feeding the Srivaishnavas and the Smarts in their respective feeding houses and also the Paramahamsas and Jogi-jangas.     

No. 595 (Page No 416)

(A. R. No. 595 of 1907)  

Nandaluru, Rajampet Taluk, Cuddapah District

Saumyanatha temple – on the inner

Eastern gopura, right side 

This is an incomplete inscription beginning with a Sanskrit verse which states that this is an edict of Ganga-bhupa. In the Tamil portion that follows mention is made of this chief under the name Gandapendara Gangayya-Sahini and of another person Saranga-Nayaka. Gangaya Sahini was a subordinate under Kakatiya king Ganapati and was ‘ruling the whole country from Panungallu to Marjavada’ (No. 306 of 1931). The inscription is dated in Sadharana, Karkataka, su. 12, Monday, Jyeshtha which should correspond to A.D. 1250.

No. 596 (Page No 417)

(A. R. No. 596 of 1907)  

Nandaluru, Rajampet Taluk, Cuddapah District

Saumyanatha temple – In the same place

Rajaraja III.  Year 23 and 24 

This records a gift of 6 madai and a lampstand each for two perpetual lamps in the temple of Sokkapperumal by a merchant named Semmasetti of Muranotta-mangalam in Valluva-nadu a division of Malai-mandalam, and his wife Unnipillai Akkan, one made in Hevilambi, Kumbha, ba. 6, Saturday, Svati, and the other a year later in Vikari, Tula ba. 3, Monday, Mrigasirsha corresponding respectively to A.D. 1238, February 6, f.d.t. 05, and to A.D. 1239, October 17, f.d.n. 11.

No. 599 (Page No 419)

(A. R. No. 599 of 1907)  

Nandaluru, Rajampet Taluk, Cuddapah District

Saumyanatha temple -- In the same place 

This is a badly damaged inscription. It is dated in Saka 1194, Angirasa, Margali (1272-73 A.D.) and seems to record a grant of 15 kuli of land to god Sokkapperumal for some offerings. Mention is made of an illegal occupation of a land after removing the boundary stone and of one Tiruvanantalvan-Bhattan who was apparently the aggrieved person but was able to produce document proving his ownership rights. The details are not clear.

No. 603 (Page No 422)

(A. R. No. 603 of 1907)  

Nandaluru, Rajampet Taluk, Cuddapah District

Saumyanatha temple- on the east wall

Of the second prakara. 

This is dated in Saka 124[5], Rudhirodgari Tai 15 (A.D.1323-24). It is damaged. It seems to record the title deed granted to one Perumal-Bhattar in place of the one that had been lost reinstating him as the upatti (Priest ?) of the Sokkapperumal temple after recovering from him some amount as damages caused by his leaving his post. The matha-sabha of the place, the Vaishnava-variyam of the temple and one Ulagamundan-Dasan are said to have set up the enquiry into this transaction and decided the case. 

No. 604 (Page No 423)

(A. R. No. 604 of 1907)  

Nandaluru, Rajampet Taluk, Cuddapah District

Saumyanatha temple – on the same wall 

The Saka year is lost, the other details of date being given as Vibhava, Makara, ba. 3, Tuesday, Uttiram.  It records a gift of gold for waving camphor light before the god daily during worship and 45 cows for burning perpetual lamps by one Injulan Malli Puvarkan Siyapperaiyan, a merchant of Vallur.

No. 612 (Page No 426)

(A. R. No. 612 of 1907)  

Nandaluru, Rajampet Taluk, Cuddapah District

Saumyanatha temple – In the same place 

This is a short inscription in Telugu dated in the cyclic year Vilambi, Asvija, su. 5, Thursday. It mentions Ramabhatta Ayyavaru and one Maddala Basavayya. The former is evidently the same as the minister of Achyuta who figures in No. 607, dated in Saka 1456. The cyclic year Vilambi would then correspond to Saka 1460 (A.D. 1538-39).

No. 619 (Page No 431)

(A. R. No. 619 of 1907)  

Gundluru, Rajampet Taluk, Cuddapah District

Agastyesvara temple – on a slab set up in the premises 

Published in S.I.I., Vol.   No.

(Miscellaneous Inscriptions-Telugu)

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