The Pandyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c14.42

c14.42

A certain Sōlan Uyyaninrāduvān alias Gurukulattarayan appears to have been an important person among the officials of the king. No. 554 of 1922 which contains verses in praise of him states that he was the minister of the king and that he built the garbhagrha, the ardha-mandapa and the mahā-mandapa of the Perumāl (Visnu) temple at Tiruttangāl. He is eulogized as the lord of Tadanganni and as one who set apart his village Ānaiyūr alias Tennavan Śīrrūr, for conducting the Sundara Pāndyan-śandi, in the seventh regnal year of the king. He ultimately rose to such an eminence in the state that whenever he visited the temple he enjoyed the honour of a kālam being sounded proclaiming: ‘Hail! Gurukulattambirān is come.’ This Gurukulattarayar also constructed a stone temple for Tangāl Īśar and his consort Gaurī; other benefactions of his are also recorded.¹