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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
Two Pandya copper-plate grants from Sinnamanur No. 206 Two Pandya copper-plate grants from Sinnamanur No. 207 Tirukkalar Plate of Rajendra Chola I No. 209 Tirukkalar Plate of Kulottungs-Chola I No. 211 Tirukkalar Plate of Kulottunga-Chola III & Rajakesarivarman Tamil portion ...(Line
76.) Hail ! Prosperity ! May the prosperous family of the Pandyas
live long â (the
family) which came forth commencing with the white Moon
enthroned on the brilliant plaited hair of Hara (i.e., Siva),
and born (from the milk ocean) along with (the goddess of)
prosperity, the pure ambrosia, the kaustaubha (gem) of
luster, like that of the Sunâs and that single elephant (the
Airavata) of flowing rut ; âa fit object of prise for the people
of the four quarters which possesses the four (divisions) of
the earth ; which was justly extolled by Bharadvaja and other (sages)
; which was beyond the reach the enemies ; whose commands bore (the
seal of) the double[1]
fish ; which had for its family priest (the sage) Agastya of
unequalled glory ; which has been in existence through aeons and
which counts (among its members) the one ever-lasting Being.[2] (L.
84.) After many great kings and emperors born in this (family)
who ruled right up to the boundaries of the heavens, (such as)
he who churned the billowy ocean and obtained nectar ; he who bathed
in a single day[3]
in the four oceans, causing admiration to the people of the four
(divisions of) the earth, who with a crown (bedecked) with gems of
faultless luster, wore (also) an anklet of white conch ; he
who went round the globe of the earth ; he who sent ambassadors on
several occasions to the gods of matchless victory ; he who carried away the garland of
Pakasasana (i.e., Indra) ; he who, appearing with ornaments
of valuable gems, mastered the Tamil (language) of the south
; he who by throwing a sharp-edged javelin caused the quick return
of the sea; acquired the name Puliyan ; who gave away thousand (of
gifts) of the golden hill (Meru) ; he who stood firmly in
the field (of battle) at Pali and obtained the name Panchavan
; he who founded the prosperous city of Madura and built (a
surrounding) wall for it; he who with the supreme intelligence
of his mind, was profoundly versed in the beautiful Tamil and
Sanskrit and became the foremost among scholars ; he who led the
elephants in the Bharata (war) so as to destroy the great
charioteers in a hill-battle[4]
; he who relieved Vijaya (Arjuna) from the curse of vasu ; he who
drove (his enemies) to the forest so that they might be
scorched up and destroyed (there) and had the blameless (royal
emblems) of the big fish, the tiger and the bow engraved on the
top of the Northern Mountain (i.e., the Himalayas); he who,
securing the services of huge giants, restored many tanks and
relieved the country from disease and pinching hunger; he who with a
dreadful sword cut off the heads of two kings that advanced against
him in the battles at Chitrmuyari and Talaiyalanganam and stopped
the dance of their (two) headless trunks and he who had the
Mahabharata translated into Tamil and had established the
âSangamâ in the town of Madhura had ruled the circle of the
earth and had passed away.
(L.
104.) Then (came) Parankusa, the king of the Panchavas (i.e.,
Pandyas) who saw the back of the Chera king (Villavan) at
Nelveli and that of the Pallava (king) at Sankaramangai of
extensive pleasure gardens. His
grandson (was) Rajasimha, the lord of kings.
(Next came) king Varaguna-Maharaja whose feet
(wearing) anklets are worshipped by monarchs.[5]
His son was Parachakrakolahala, who bore the burden of the earth,
who wore (a victorious garland of) never-fading vagai
(flowers)[6]
at Kunnur, (surrounded by) gardens of delightful fragrance,
at Singalam and at Vilinam ; who firmly wielded his scepter and who
shining with the prowess of the Sun and shooting from (his)
bow-string sharp and deadly arrows on Ganga, Pallava, Chola, Kalinga,
Magadha and other (kings) that came to give battle and
opposed (him) at Kudamukkil of fragrant and blooming
flower-gardens and made them bathe in a big river of blood. (L.
113.) (Next came) Varagunavarman, the lord of kings, whose
feet were worshipped by kings (wearing) jingling anklets on
their legs, and who by (his) beautiful long arms resembling
hills, made the earth his own. (L.
115.) His younger brother, the glorious warrior Parantakan Sadaiyan,
the king whose conduct (followed the rules prescribed by) Manu, who
wore many golden ornaments, who put on a golden crown decorated with
gems ; who showered arrows from (his) powerful bow so that
the elephant troops whose (long) trunks touched the earth,
the horse battalions and the infantry (of the enemies)
fell on the earth at (the battle of) Sennilam ; who captured
at Kharagiri crowds of files of powerful elephants of enemy (kings)
and who a battle at Nilamber ; who had destroyed the extensive
Pennagadam, who with the help of a single powerful prancing horse,
won battles in the extensive Kongu (country) ; who performed
many (gifts of) devadana (lands) and restored
many brahmadeya (grants) and who subdued the whole of
India (Navaltivu)[7],
having also gone to heaven. (L.
123.) The first son of the goddess of the (lotus) flower
(i.e., Lakshmi) called Vanavanmahadevi, was he the king of the
Minavar, (i.e., the Pandyas) Rajasimha Vikatavadavan[8],
who having himself borne (easily) by the strength of
his broad shoulders, the great burden of the circle of the earth
which the lord of serpents (i.e., Sesha) bears with much difficulty
by his thousand heads, became distinguished as âthe strong-armed
that relieved the serpent Lord of (the pain of) carrying the
earthâ; who at Ulappinimangalam pierced the bodies of the enemies
that attacked (him), and gave (their) blood, the
superior (position) of becoming the scented cosmetics of the
goddess Earth, who sounded his drum when the king of the Tanjai (country)
(full of) water flowing from sluices, ran away surrendering
his arms,[9]
at Naippur which was filled with mountain-like battalions[10];
who commenced his battle[11]
at the big city of Kodumbai where the assembled (enemyâs)
forces, vast like the roaring ocean, dispersed suffering afficition;
whose looks caused (the town of) Vanji with walls surrounded
on all sides by flower-gardens (and situated) on the northern
bank of the Kaveri (Ponni) abounding in water to be consigned
to flames, and whose eyes which became red (with anger) made to
dance the headless bodies of the heroes that opposed him ; who like
Kumara (Skanda) of the high cock flag, swelled with rage and
displayed the strength of (his) galloping steeds by
destroying in the battle at the beautiful and well watered town of
Naval the crowds of elephants, horses and foot-men of the lord of
the southern Tanjai (country).
(His) victorious flag reaching the sky, his scepter
wielded (right) upto the ends of quarters, acquiring the
bridled horse, the chief mountain and the blood-red garland, was
enjoying pleasure of Mahendra with his prosperous sons worshipping
at his feet, the king Vikatavadava, the lord of Prosperity, who
marked the chief of mountains with his fish emblem, the crest-jewel
of kings, this lord of the south (Tennan), of many brilliant
virtues having founded with pleasure in every direction numberless brahmadeyas,
numberless devadanas, and numberless pallichchandam. (L.
143.) Being pleased to stay in the town of Chulal (situated)
in Rajasingapperungulam, abounding it wreath of water-lilies and
resembling the noisy ocean whichwas formerly founded by himself â in the 14th year opposite the 2nd year
of his reign, the Brahman Bhaskaran-Setti who was like the
lotus-born (Brahma) and was praised by al, the son of the virtuous
Bhaskara, the chief of the noble and illustrious race of the Settis,
the foremost of Ombalvas of the Agnivesya-kalpa and the
Komara-Kausika-gotra (living) in the village Kottarpolil[12]
named Puttur in the
watery Miygundaru (district) (which was included) in the big
(district of) Koluvur-kurram, having obtained as ekabhoga
the brahmadeya consisting of the place (called)
Tisaichchudarmangalam in Vada-Kalavali-nadu, by the grace of the
Pandya king the glorious Parantakan Sri-Viranaranan. (L.
155.) The chief of kings mentioned above, the illustrious
Rajasimhavarman, the sovereign whose umbrella touched the sky,
desirous of doing some good to Parantaka the famous son of Bhaskaran
Setti (i.e., Setti son of Bhaskara) who walked in the path of
the virtuous, a Kausika of Sengudi (surrounded by) a forest of
lotuses, thefriend of the created beings and the home of good
qualities, was pleased to kindly confer as ekabhoga-brahmadeya
together with karanmai and miyatchi (the village)
Narcheygai-Puttur in Ala-nadu of Beautiful streams of cool water
which he was pleased to found calling it Mandaragauravamangalam
after his own name.
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