The Historical Inscriptions of Southern India (collected till 1923) and Outlines of Political History c9.s2.t52: Nandyāla Family—The—

The Historical Inscriptions of Southern India (collected till 1923) and Outlines of Political History c9.s2.t52

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Nandyāla Family—The—

There are a number of inscriptions which mention chiefs who bore this name. The following list ranges from A.D. 1183 to 1306-7. I have not been able to trace their relationships satisfactorily. The Epigraphist to Government, in his Report for 1913 (p. 126), thinks that because the Nilagangaraiyan who is referred to in an inscription of A.D. 1259 (117 of 1912) is called a *pillaiyār* of the powerful Vijaya-gaṇḍa-gōpāla; therefore he was really a son (*pillai*) of that ruler. But I hardly think this is justified. In A.D. 1193 the then Nilagangaraiyan is called a *pillaiyār* of Kulōttuṅga-Chōḷa III. Rājarāja Sambuvaraiyan is also called in 1257 a *pillaiyār* of Vijayagaṇḍa-gōpāla, and it has been argued that therefore Nilagangaraiyan was brother to that Sambuvaraiyan. I cannot consider this proved. In the inscription, for instance, 357 of 1922, the Mahābali-Baṇa chief is called a *pillai* of the Pāṇḍya king Māravarman Kulaśekhara I. This was in A.D. 1275.

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The inclusion in their name of ‘Ganga’-raiyan may perhaps justify the belief that these rulers belonged to the Ganga family stock; while the syllable *Vāṇan* may point to descent from the Bāṇa chiefs.¹ Their records are mostly found in Chingleput district.

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¹ Vāṇan is a Tamil word meaning resident in or being master of. Here it is the name of Śiva in Tiruvaiyār (Trivāḍi) in Tanjore.—*Editor*.

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*Pañchanadivāṇan-Nilagangaraiyan*. A.D. 1183, May 26. Records in 5th year of Kulōttuṅga Chōḷa III (*V. R. i. Chingleput 20; ii Madras 233, 312; 297 of 1895; 513 of 1913; 297 of 1905*). The same in the 10th year, 1187-8 (*V. R. i. Chin. 683; 318 of 1911*). The same, with the prefixes ‘*Pillaiyār-Kulōttuṅga-Chōḷa-Kaṇṇapan-Nallanāyaṉār*’ in the 16th year, A.D. 1193-4 (*V. R. i. Chin. 858; 2 of 1911*). The same in the 33rd year, with the affix ‘Chōḷa-Ganga,’ A.D. 1210 (*V. R. i. Chin. 930; 557 of 1912*).

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*Nilagangaraiyan*. ‘7th year of Rājarāja Chōḷa III,’ A.D. 1222-3 (*V. R. i. Chin. 854; 187 of 1901*). In the same year 1222, on March 21 an inscription of ‘Nilagangaraiyan-Chōḷa-Ganga.’ (*V. R. i. Chingleput 908; 535 of 1912*). The same in ‘2nd year of Kō-Peruñjinga.’ (?) 1244-5 (*V. R. i. N. Arcot, 460; 505 of 1902*). The same in the 28th year or Rājarāja Chōḷa III (*V. R. ii. Tanjore, 1071; 437 of 1912*). The same ‘in the reign of Vijaya-Gaṇḍa-Gōpāla,’ which was A.D. 1250-1291 (*V. R. i. Chin. 870; 14 of 1911*).

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*Pañchanadivāṇan-Nilagangaraiyan*, with prefix ‘*pillaiyār*,’ in the 10th year of Vijaya-Gaṇḍa-Gōpāla. Date = Sept. 13, 1259 (*V. R. i. Chin. 986; 117 of 1912*). Nilagangaraiyan is also mentioned, as well as his wife Naṅgai-Āḷvār,² perhaps an Āḷupa princess, in the 27th year of Kō-Peruñjiṅga,—A.D. 1269-70 (*V. R. i. N. Arcot, 472. 473; 517, 518 of 1902*).

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² Āḷvār or even Āḷvār, meaning ‘My Lady’, a term of honorific use.—*Editor*.

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*Aruṇagiri-Perumāḷ Nilagangaraiyan* in the 17th year of Jaṭāvarman Sundara Pāṇḍya III. The date = July 30, 1292 (*V. R. i. Chin: 910; 537 of 1912*).

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*Pañchanadivāṇan-Tiruvēgamban*, alias Nilagaṅgan, in the 37th year of Māravarman-Kulaśekhara Pāṇḍya I. The date = July 8, 1304 (*V. R. i. Chin: 928; 555 of 1912*).

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‘*Prince Nilagangaraiyar*,’ in the 39th year of the same king, i.e., in 1306-7 (*V. R. i. Chin. 815; 285 of 1907.*)

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NIZAMS OF HYDERABAD See DEKHAN—SUBAHDARS OF THE

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NIZAM SHAHI DYNASTY OF AHMADNAGAR

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Nizām-ul-Mulk Baḥrī was one of the Emirs of the Bāhmanī kings. He contrived the death of Maḥmūd Gawān at the hands of Muḥammad Bāhmanī III, which led to the break-up of the kingdom. His son Malik Aḥmad revolted, defeated a Bāhmanī army and became independent, establishing himself as head of a new State with capital at Aḥmadnagar, in A.D. 1489.