The Colas c15.26

c15.26

Two inscriptions²⁸ from Tiruvoṟṟiyūr contain the most casual reference to a campaign in the Nellore district. An officer of Parāntaka, Māṟan Paramēśvaran, a native of Śiṟukuḷattūr, overthrew Śīṭpuḷi and destroyed Nellūr, and on his way back to the south, he stopped at Tiruvoṟṟiyūr to make a thanks-offering to Mahādēva in the form of a grant of land, which four years later was released from the fiscal dues falling upon it. The original gift was made in the thirty-fourth year of Parāntaka (A.D. 941).