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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
XV.- Inscriptions of Parthivendravarman or Parthivendradhipativarman, who took the head of Vira-Pandya No. 156 to 157 Kharapurisvara, Vaikuntha-Perumal temples No. 152 to 155 Vaikuntha-Perumal, Madariamman temples No. 158 to 161 On the east and north wall of the Vaikuntha-Perumal temple No. 162 to 165 Vaikuntha-Perumal, Vishnu temples at Tirumalpuram No. 166 to 170 Jalanathesvara temple at Takkolam No. 171 to 176 Subrahmanya, Vaikuntha-Perumal, Masilamanisvara temples No. 177 to 180 Siva, Varaha-Perumal temples No. 181 to 184 Tiruvalisvara, Vaikuntha-Perumal, Jalanathesvara temples No. 185 to 189 Varaha-Perumal, Tiruvalisvara, Ullagaikulunda temples No. 190 to 194 Jalanathesvara, Selliyamman, Vishnu temples No. 195 to 198 Masilamanisvara, Manikanthesvara, Vishnu temples No.
156.â ON THE NORTH WALL OF THE CENTRAL SHRINE IN THE
KHARAPURISVARA TEMPLE AT TIRUPPARKADAL[1] This
record refers to a number of committees which comprised the great
assembly of Kaviripakkam alias
Amaninarayana-chaturvedimangalam.
These were samvatsara-variyam, totta-variyam, eri-variyam,
kalani-variyam, panchavara-variyam, kanakku-variyam, kalingu-variyam
and tadivali-variyam. Besides
these, the assembly included a general body of bhattas
(learned Brahmanas) of the village, the ârulerâ
(i.e., the headman) of the village and the overseer.
Perhaps the two last-mentioned personages were the
representatives of Government in the village assembly.
An elaborate description of the formation of the village
assemblies during the time of Parantaka I.
is given in the two Uttaramallur inscriptions published by
Rai Bhadur V. Venkayya in the Archaeological Survey Report for
1904-05.
In
the 3rd year of king Parthivendradivarman, the village
assembly received a petition from one of the trustees of the temple
stating that a garden and a field which were the archanabhoga
of the god of Tirukkarapuram had been lying waste, being silted up
by sand by the breaches in the river.
The assembly directed the kalni-variyam committee to
grant 1,400 kuli of land from the village manjikkam
which was lying untaxed. The term manjikkam perhaps corresponds to the present poramboke
and the right vested in the village assemblies to dispose of such
land deserves to be specially noted. (Line
1.) Hail ! Prosperity! In the 3rd year and the 39th
day (of the reign) of king Parthivendradivarman, the great
assembly of Kaviripakkam alias
Amaninarayana-chaturvedimangalam, (a village) in
Paduvur-kottam, consisting of the great men of the
annual-supervision committee (samvatsarvariyam) for this
year, the great men of the garden-supervision committee (totta-variyam),
the great men to the tank-supervision committee (eri-variyam),
the great men of the wet fields-supervision committee (kalani-variyam),
the great men of (the suburb ?) Vada âViranarayana ; the
great men of the pancha-vara committee (panchavara-variyam),
the great men of the accounts-supervision committee (kanakku-variyam),
the great men of the sluice-supervision committee (kalingu-variyam),
the great men of the fields-supervision committee (tadivali-variyam),
the bhattas, visishtas and others of the big assembly together with
Pallavan Brahmadarayan, the ruler of the villager and the overseer
Arumbakilan, having met together in the abhisheka-mandapa of
the big temple of this village. (L.
4.) Mangandanan, a Siva-Brahmana of this temple (sthana),
petitioned that the garden and the field which were the archchanabhoga
of the god, the lord of Tirukkarapura, were lying waste, being
silted up with sand by breaches in the river.
The members of the assembly directed that thegreat men of the
wet field-supervision committee (holding office) this year
shall themselves (grant) this one thousand four hundred kuli
(of land) (measured) by the wet field-measure (kalani-kol)
out of the manjikkam land of the village, (in lieu of)
the land which is the archchanabhoga of the lord of this
Tirukarapura and is lying waste being silted up, shall set up stones
(for boundaries) and have (the order) engraved on
stone. In pursuance of
the order (tirumugam) which the assembly was (thus)
pleased to make, we the great men of the wet field-supervision
committee gave the (following) land as archchanabhoga
to the lord of Tirukkarapura : - (L.
7.) Four hundred kuli
of land, (measured) by the wet field-measuring rod, comprised
within the (following) four boundaries : â the eastern
boundary of (this) land, which not being taxed, lies as the manjikkam
of the village to the south of the (channel)
Mahadavaykal in the northern fields of Ochcheri, a hamlet of this
village, (is) to the west of the land of Somasi of Mangadu ;
the southern boundary (is) to the north of the high ground
which has been lying as village manjikkam ; the western
boundary (is) to the east of (the land called) Udamadampatti
of the lord of Trumulattanam in (the temple of)
Tirupanrisvaram and the northern boundary (is) to the south
of the (channel called) Mahada-vaykal. (L.
9.) Four hundred kuli south of this, (measured) by the
wet field-measuring rod, â a village manjikkam land not
taxed and (situated) on the north side of (the channel
called) Tirunarana-vaykal in the wet-field of the high ground (called)
Sirukarugesuva which was also a village manjikkam â and
comprised within the (following) four boundaries: â (viz.)
the eastern boundary (which is) to the west of (the
channel) Nadaikal which runs closely to the west of the land
belonging to Angarai Madeva-bhatta; the southern boundary (which
is) to the north of the Tirunarana-vaykal; the western boundary
(which is) to the east of the land of Aiyan Peruman and the
northern boundary (which is) to the south (?)[2]
of the land of Mudumbai-Porkuli. (L.
11.) Again, six hundred kuli on the south side of this (Tirunaranavaykal)
channel (measured) by the wet field-measuring rod, of (one)
ma of land which was also lying as village manjikkam
not paying any tax, (included within) the (following)
four boundaries (viz.,) : â the eastern boundary (which
is) to the west of the land which paid no taxes; the southern
boundary (which is) to the north of (the field called)
Somasibbumi which belonged to Avattaikilavan and to the kundil
to the east of it ; the western boundary (which is) to the
east of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (the field called)
Kalayasomasi-bhumi and to the south of the channel (i.e.,
Tirunarana-vaykal). (L.
12.) Altogether these one thousand four hundred kuli (of
land) we, the great men of the wet-field-supervision committee (doing
duty) for this year . . . . . . . . . . . . . members of the
assembly, gave as tax-free archchanabhoga as long as the moon
and the sun (last) engraving it on stone and fixing (boundary)
stones, to the god (perumanadigal) of this Tirukarapura for (providing)
daily one sacred meal of two nali of rice, for performing
worship at the three periods (of the day) and (for)
lighting a lamp. (L.
13.) This is the signature of me Manimangalam-udaiyan Gangadhara
Mayilatti, the accountant of the wet field-supervision committee for
this year, who wrote this stone inscription under orders, being (myself)
one of the assembly (kuri).
I, the accountant . . . . . . . .and madhyasthan Vamana . . . . . . . . . . Elayiravan wrote this under orders
being (myself) one of the assembly (kuri).[3]
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