The Colas c17.37.4

c17.37.4

A Bāṇa prince, Maravan Narasimhavarman, whose records commence with the usual introduction of Rājarāja and then proceed to give the traditional titles of the Bāṇas in all their fullness, was apparently ruling some part of the South Arcot district in the neighbourhood of Jambai towards the close of Rājarāja’s reign, as we learn that he excavated a new irrigation tank in that locality.¹⁰¹ The Tanjore inscriptions mention Sēnāpati Śrī Kṛṣṇan Rāman of Amaṇ-kuḍi,¹⁰² who is called Rājēndraśōḻa Brahmamārāyan in the larger Leyden grant,¹⁰³ as the person who built the *tiruccuṟṟālai*, the surrounding enclosure and *maṇḍapa* of the Tanjore temple under the king's orders. Īrāyiravan Pallavaraiyan *alias* Mummuḍi-sōḻapōśan was another officer of *perundaram* rank who presented an image and some jewels to the Tanjore temple.¹⁰⁴ He was doubtless a high official in the secretariat of the revenue department as we find him attesting the Leyden grant and an important inscription from Ukkal¹⁰⁵ relating to revenue settlement. Sēnāpati Kụṟavan Ulagaḷandān *alias* Rājarāja Mahārājan who is also mentioned in the Tanjore inscriptions,¹⁰⁶ apparently got his surname Ulagaḷandān (one who measured the world) after carrying out the revenue survey which began in the sixteenth year (A.D.