The Colas c23.67

c23.67

The prominent Bāṇa chieftain of the period was the ruler of Magadai-maṇḍalam represented in several inscriptions of the reign, some of them in good Tamil verse, as the hero of several battles and the builder of many temples. He is often called Ponparappina Magadēśan in commemoration of his having gilded the roof of the temple of Tiruvaṇṇāmalai.¹⁵¹ One of his ministers (*sandhi-vigrahi*) is said to have constructed a *maṇḍapa* in Kiḷūr. He himself endowed some lamps at Tiruvaṇṇāmalai and assigned some dues as revenue to the Kiḷūr temple. One of his *agambaḍi mudalis* also endowed lamps in Aragaṇḍanallūr. He is also called Āragaḷūruḍaiyān and Rājarājadēvan; Āragaḷūr in the Salem district was his headquarters and it would seem that being born in the reign of Rājarājadēva, he was named after the ruling sovereign of the time. One other chieftain, perhaps of the same family, is mentioned as enjoying the *kāṇi* of Kūgaiyūr in South Arcot where he constructed a stone temple, Śrī Kailāsa, with *maṇḍapas*, *prākāras* and *gōpuras*, and set up an image called Ponparappina-Īśvara.