History of the Pallavas of Kanchi c16.s1: Inscriptions of Miscellaneous Pallava Chiefs of the Second Half of the Ninth Century
History of the Pallavas of Kanchi c16.s1
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Inscriptions of Miscellaneous Pallava Chiefs of the Second Half of the Ninth Century
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110. Kampavarman. *Ep. Col.*, No. 64 of 1898.
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Tamil inscription dated in the sixth year of Vijaya- Kampavarman recording gift of gold to the Viṣṇu temple at Gōvardhana at Uttaramallūr.
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111. Another Tamil Record, *Ep. Col.*, No. 398 of 1905, dated in the sixth year of the same king's rule but fragmentary, is found in the Varadarāja-perumāḷ temple at Kavēripākkam.
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112. *Ep. Col.*, No. 3 of 1898. Tamil inscription written in the west wall of the Vaikuṇṭha-perumāḷ temple at Uttaramallūr records the gift of gold to the Mahādēva in the neighbouring village in the eighth year of the reign.
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113. *Ep. Col.*, No. 85 of 1898. Records a sale of land, in the eighth year.
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114. *Ep. Col.*, No. 6 of 1898, found in the Vaikuṇṭha-perumāḷ temple wall records a gift to Mahāviṣṇu, and is dated in the eighth year of the same reign.
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115. *Ep. Col.*, No. 7 of 1898. Tamil inscription in the walls of the Vaikuṇṭhaperumāḷ temple at Uttaramallūr. Incomplete. Records a sale of land in the ninth year of Vijayakampavarman's reign.
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¹¹⁶ *Ep. Col.*, No. 429 of 1902; *Ep. Ind.*, vol. vii, pp. 192-3. Tamil inscription, dated in the eighth year of Vijayakampavarman's reign written in a long stone in a *tope* opposite to the ruined Īśvara temple at Śōḷapuram near Vellore. The record consists of two Sanskrit verses and a half in the *Grantha* characters and a passage in Tamil prose. The Tamil portion which is dated in the eighth year states that a chief named Rājāditya built a Śiva temple and a tomb in memory of his deceased father Prithivī-Gangarāyar. The mutilated Sanskrit portions give a genealogical account of Rājāditya and mentions Mādhavā as the earliest ancestor of his son Atvivarman, and another whose name is illegible. Rājāditya is described as the son of Prithivī-Gangarāyar and the contemporary of Vijayakampa.
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Damaged Tamil inscription at Uttaramallūr Vaikuṇṭhaperumāḷ temple, dated in the tenth year of the same king.
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118. *S.I.I.*, vol. iii, No. 8, p. 13. Hultzsch. This Tamil inscription on the south wall of the Viṣṇu temple at Ukkal records in Tamil that one Saḍaiyan gave 400 *kāḍis* of paddy to the villagers of Ukkal in the tenth year of Kampavarman to feed the Brahmans.
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119. *Ep. Col.*, No. 207 of 1901. Tamil inscription on the south wall of the Lakshmī-Nārāyaṇa temple of Kāvāntaṇḍlam records in the fourteenth year of Kampavarman that one Mānasarpa an inhabitant of Kuḷanur in Vēṅgai Nāḍu made a gift of land to the Viṣṇu temple at Kāvāntaṇḍlam. (Chenglepat District).
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120. *Ep. Col.*, No. 42 of 1898. Tamil record in the Vaikuṇṭhaperumāḷ temple at Uttaramallūr registers a gift of gold to the temple in the fifteenth year of Vijayakampavarman.
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121. *Ep. Col.*, same place. Another damaged. Tamil inscription in the fifteenth year of the same king.
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122. *S.I.I.*, vol. iii, No. 5, p. 8. Hultzsch. Tamil inscription engraved on the south wall of the Viṣṇu temple of Ukkal, dated in the fifteenth year of the reign of Kampavarman. The inscription records that a certain Saḍaiyan gave over 1000 *kāḍi* of paddy to the Assembly of Ukkal, who pledged themselves to supply in return 500 *kāḍi* of paddy per year for some unspecified purpose.
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123. *Ep. Col.*, No. 391 of 1905. This is a Tamil inscription engraved on a stone built into a floor close to the south wall of the Varadarājaperumāḷ temple at Kāvērīpākkam. It is dated in the seventeenth year of Vijayakampavarman and records a gift of gold and mentions Avani-Nārāyaṇachaturvēdimangalam, an alternative name of Kāvērīpākkam.
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This Tamil inscription put up in the south wall of the Lakshmī-Nārāyaṇa temple at Kāvāntaṇḍlam records in the eighteenth year of Kampavarman the celebration of certain festivals at Mānasarpa-Viṣṇugṛha.
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125. *Ep. Col.*, No. 84 of 1898. This is a Tamil inscription at the Vaikuṇṭha-perumāḷ temple at Uttaramallūr and records the gift of gold in the twenty-first year of Vijayakampavarman for the repair of a local tank.
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126. *Ep. Col.*, No. 86 of 1898. Tamil inscription on one of the walls of the Vaikuṇṭha-perumāḷ temple of Uttaramallūr records, in the twenty-third year of Kampa-Perumāṇ, an allotment of gold and paddy.
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127. *Ep. Ind.*, vol. vii, p. 93. Śolapuram Tamil inscription. This inscription in the north wall of the Perumāḷ temple at Śolapuram near Vellore records the building of a temple of Nārāyaṇa at Kāṭṭutumbūr, that is, Śolavaram called Kanakavalli-Viṣṇugṛha identical with the temple in which the inscription is engraved. Kāṭṭutumbūr is described as being in Paṅgala-Nāḍu, a subdivision of Paḍuvūr-kōṭṭam.
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128. *Ep. Col.*, No. 174 of 1912. This is a Tamil inscription engraved in one of the slabs built into the floor of the Ādhipurēśvara temple at Tiruvorriyūr. The object of the inscription is to record a gift of twenty-seven *kalañjus* of gold for offerings by Pūdi-Arindigai wife of Viḍēlviḍugu Iḷangōvēḷār of Koḍumbāḷūr in Koṇāḍu. The amount was placed in the hands of the residents of Vaikāṭṭūr, a suburb of Tiruvorriyūr on interest at three *mañjāḍi* per *kalañju* per annum.
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129. *Ep. Col.*, No. 357 of 1909. This inscription is written on a slab set up near the Village Munsiff’s śavadi at Olakkūr and is a Vīragal of the period of Kampaperumāḷ. It records the death of a hero on the occasion when the town was destroyed. The characters in which the inscription is recorded are old enough to be ascribed to the time of the later Pallava kings of the ninth century. The hero who met with his death is represented by a standing figure with a drawn sword in the right hand.
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This inscription found in the slabs at Vallēśvara temple at Māṅgāḍu records in the third year of Kō-Vijaya-Aparājitavarman a gift of gold for lamp and offerings to the temple of Tiruveīlikīl-Mahādēva at Māṅgāḍu in Kachchipēḍu.
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131. *Ep. Col.*, No. 158 of 1912. This is a Tamil inscription engraved on a slab in the floor of the verandah of the Ādhipurēśvara shrine at Tiruvorriyūr belonging to the fourth year of Kō-Vijaya-Aparājitavarman. The object of this record is to register the gift of thirty *kalañjus* of *ūrkarchemmai* gold for a lamp to the god of Tiruvorriyūr (Mahādēva) by Amatti *alias* Kurumbakoḷari a concubine of Vayiramēghan alias Vānakōvaraiyar son of Perunangai. The amount was deposited with the Assembly of Āḍambākkam a hamlet of Tiruvorriyūr and the *Amirta-gaṇa* (committee) on interest of three *mañjāḍi* per *kalañju*, every year.
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132. *Ep. Col.*, No. 31 of 1912. This Tamil inscription written on a stone lying in the Matangēśvara temple at Satyavēḍu is dated in the fourth year of Aparājitavarman records the village of Turaiyūr with its income consisting of *pon* and *puravu* for worship in the Mahādēva temple at Matangapaḷḷi in Tekkūrnāḍu a sub-division of Paiyūr-Iḷangōṭṭam by Kumaraṇḍai-Kurumbarādittan *alias* Kāḍupaṭṭi Pērariyan of Śēranāḍu.
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133. *Ep. Col.*, No. 161 of 1912. This is a stone inscription in Tamil dated in the fourth year of Kō-Vijaya-Aparājitavarman, and records the gift of thirty *kalañju* of gold for a lamp to the temple of Tiruvoṟṟiyūr Mahādēva by Sappakkan *alias* Patradāni who was a concubine of Vairamēghan *alias* Vāṇakovaraiyan son of Śāmi-Akkan. It mentions the assembly of Āḍambākkam a suburb of Tiruvoṟṟiyūr and Amṛtagaṇattār, the village committee who took charge of the money-gift.
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This is a Tamil inscription engraved in the *Ardhamandapa* of the same temple records in the fifth year of Aparājita gift of 100 sheep for a lamp by Poṟṟinangai wife of Kāḍupaṭṭipērariyan, a chief mentioned in a previous inscription. It also mentions the measure called the *Viḍelviḍugu*.
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135. *Ep. Col.*, No. 190 of 1912. This Tamil inscription records that in the sixth year of Kō-Vijaya-Aparājitavarman a gift of gold for two lamps by the community of the Mahēśvaras which was accepted by the assembly of Maṇali a village near Tiruvoṟṟiyūr.
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136. *Ep. Col.*, No. 162 of 1912. This Tamil inscription on a slab inside the Ādhipurēśvara temple records in the seventh year of Kō-Vijaya-Aparājitavarman a gift of gold for a lamp to the temple by the Queen Mahādevi Aḍigal. The Assembly of Adambakkam received it on interest.
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137. *Ep. Col.*, No. 159 of 1912. This is a Grantha-Tamil inscription of the eighth year of Kō-Vijaya-Aparājitavarman engraved on a slab built into the verānda of the Ādhipurēśvara temple in Tiruvoṟṟiyūr. The object of the inscription is to record the gift of fifty *kalañju* of ūrkarchemmai gold for offerings and a lamp by Paittāngikaṇḍan, chief of Kāṭṭūr in Vaḍagarai-Innambarṇāḍu in Choḷanāḍu. The provisions made were elaborate and included rice, ghee, plantain, sugar, vegetables, arecanuts, betel-leaves, tender cocoanuts, *pancha-gavya*, sandal-paste and camphor.
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This inscription which is found in the temple of Oṛṛimūdūr records a gift of land by purchase from the residents of Iganaimūdūr for offering to a shrine called Choḷamallēśvara by a donor whose name is lost.
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139. *Ep. Col.*, No. 435 of 1905. This inscription in Tamil verse on the south wall of the Vīraṭṭānēśvara shrine at Tiruttaṇi records in the eighteenth year of Vijaya-Aparājitavarman a gift of 1000 *kuli* of land by Nambi-Appi to the temple.
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140. *Ep. Col.*, No. 433 of 1905. This another inscription in Tamil verse in the same place and records that a certain Nambi-Appi built a temple of Tiruttaṇiyal of granite. The verse is said to have been composed by the king whose name is not however given.
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¹⁴¹ Udayēndiram Plates of Prithivīpati II. *S.I.I.*, vol. ii, part iii, p.
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³⁸⁰ Sanskrit and Tamil copper-plates. The Sanskrit portion gives a genealogy of the Gaṅga-Bāṇa king Prithivīpati II, surnamed Hastimalla (*verses* 12-23) and the information that, with the permission of his sovereign Parakēsari-Parāntaka I he granted the village of Kaḍaikōṭṭūr to the village of Udaiyēndra-Chaturvēdimangalam. The Tamil portion gives the boundaries of the granted land and is dated in the fifteenth year of Parāntaka I. The genealogical portion records the military exploits of Prithivīpati I in several verses one of which (*verse* 18) says that, ‘having defeated by force the Pāṇḍya’s lord Varaguṇa at the head of the great battle of Śrīpurambiya and having thus made his friend’s title Aparājita significant, the hero
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entered heaven by sacrificing his own life.' (It has been surmised from this that the battle of Śrīpurambiya was fought by the Pallava king Aparājita against Varaguṇa and that the former had for his ally the Western Ganga king Prithivīpati and that the battle ended in favour of Aparājita though his ally lost his life in it.)
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142. Tiruvālangāḍu plates of Rajēndrachola. H. K. Sastri, S.I.I., vol. ii, part iii, No. 205.
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The Tiruvālangāḍu plates of Rajēndrachola belonging to the sixth year of Rajēndra, while describing the achievements of the ancestors of Rajēndra, record (verse 49) that the Choḷa king Āditya ‘having conquered in battle the Pallava with his brilliant army though he was Aparājita, he took possession of his queen, the earth and accomplished his object in this direction too’. This Aparājita is evidently identical with the Aparājita-Vikramavarman whose inscription at Tiruttaṇi is dated in the eighteenth year and who, along with Western Ganga king Prithivīpati for his ally, fought against the Pāṇḍya king Varaguṇa at the battle of Śrīpurambiya.
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143. Ep. Col., No. 119 of 1897.
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This is a Tamil inscription of the third year of Vijaya-Narasimhavarman and records that Atimāttūrmarugan, an inhabitant of Pākkam and a servant of Valimadura having recovered the cattle, in a cattle raid fell in the same cause.
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144. Hultzsch, Ep. Ind., vol. iv, p. 177. Kiḷ-Muttugūr inscription of Narasimhavarman.
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This inscription consists of nine lines on a rough stone slab in Kiḷ-Muttugūr, a village in Guḍiyāttam Taluk of the North Arcot District. The alphabet is in Tamil and resembles the Vaṭṭeḻuttu inscriptions. The inscription records in Tamil the gift of land and houses at Mukkudūr to a Brahman in the eighteenth year of Kō-Vijaya Narasimhavarman. Below the inscription is a bas-relief with two central figures of elephant and goose from which Dr. Hultzsch has drawn the inference that Narasimhavarman belonged to the Western-Ganga dynasty.
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145. This is an archaic Tamil inscription of the twenty-fourth year of Kō-Vijaya Narasimhavikramavarman and records the death of a hero in the service of Skanda, the Ādhirāja of the Bāṇas and who fell in the recovery of cattle lifted by three persons.
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146. Vijaya-Īśvaravarman. *Ep. Ind.*, vol. vii, p. 24. This Tamil inscription in Vaṭṭeḻuttu characters records in the twelfth year of Vijaya-Īśvaravarman the death of a hero who was killed by a Bāṇa chief called Kārōṇiṛi at Śiraiyūr.
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147. *Ep. Ind.*, vol. vii, p. 23. Two inscriptions in a field at Hanumantapuram in Dharmapuri Taluk, Salem District, record that in the seventeenth year of king Vijaya-Īśvaravarman, Śāttan of Pudūr and Kaḍadi Kārākkan fell.
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148. *Ep. Col.*, No. 150 of 1916. This is a Tamil inscription engraved on a slab built into the north wall of the Agastyēśvara temple at Poyyanūr, Arkonam Taluk, records in Tamil the gift for offerings in the second year of Vayiramēghavarman for the temple of Tiruvagattiśvarmuḍaya-Mahādēva at Poygainallūr in Dāmalkōṭṭam.
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149. *Ep. Col.*, No. 152 of 1916. This is a similar record dated in the second year of Vayiramēghavarman and registers a gift for conducting Śrībali in the temple of Tirukulicharattu Āḻvār at Pālakalam.
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¹⁵⁰ Kāṭṭirai, *Ep. Ind.*, vol. vii, p.
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²⁵ This is a Tamil inscription put up on a rock near Tandlam, Arkonam Taluk, dated in the tenth year of Śatti, the king of Kāḍavas. It consists of two Tamil verses each of which states that a Pallavamahārāja built a sluice for the tank at Tandlam.
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151. *Ep. Col.*, No. 284 of 1916. Jouveau-Dubreuil, *Pall. Ant.*, vol. ii, pp. 65–6. This inscription engraved in *Pallava-Grantha* on a pillar in a rock-cut cave at Mēlachēri, Gingee Taluk, states that the Śiva temple called Śrī-Śikhari-Pallavēśvaram was excavated by King Chandrāditya at Simhapura.