South India and her Muhammadan Invaders c8.43

c8.43

(1) The chieftain of Nellore (Vikramasimhapura) took the title Madhurāntaka Pottappi Chola; the first member of this title was perhaps in compliment to his overlord, Madhurāntaka, ‘the death of Madura’, having been an old and a very common title among the Cholas. Nellore is defined in one of these records to have belonged to the Peḍai Nāḍu sub-division, of the district Śēdikulamānikka vaḷanāḍu of the province, Jayangondaśoḷamaṇḍalam. Two chieftains are mentioned with this title and their personal names are given as Tammasiddhi-araiśan with date the twenty-sixth year of Kulottunga III (A.D. 1203-4), and Nallasiddhi araiśar, an uncle of the former with date the thirty-first year of the same emperor (A.D. 1208-9). Two other records of Tammusiddhi are dated A.D. 1205-6 and A.D. 1207-8.¹