History of the Pallavas of Kanchi c16.133

c16.133

¹⁵⁶ Tamil prose and verse. This inscription is engraved in one of the stones of the well, south of the Puṇḍarīkāksha Perumāḷ temple at Tiruveḷḷarai near Trichinopoly. The object of the inscription is to record the construction of a well called Mārpiḍugu-peruṅiṇaru by one Kamban-Araiyan, the younger brother of a certain Viśaiya-Naḷḷuḷān of Ālambākkam. The work was commenced according to the record, in the fourth year of Dantivarman of the Pallava-tilaka family and sprung from *Bhāradvāja-Gotra*, and completed in the fifth year. The village and the tank may be identified with the modern village and tank of Ālambākkam situated at a distance of twelve miles from Lalgudi in the Trichinopoly District.