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Jaina Inscriptions in Tamilnadu
Records that the king (Udaiyamārtāṇḍavarma) while staying at Sivalamangalam granted 20 ma of land in Mulayanürparṛu of Naňjilnāḍu to the temple and the land was placed under the custody of KeralanNārāyaṇan alias Gupavirapaṇḍita and Jivaharuḍaiyan alias Kamalavā hanapaṇḍita of the same temple (palli). It was from the income of this pallichchandam, payasam (sweet pongal) for the morning service, oil for the sacred bath and for lamps, offerings for the noon and night services, twice this quantity on Sundays and special services on Sundays of the month of Tai, inclusive of clothes, dakshinai, garlands, rose water, camphor, suffron etc., were offered to the temple. A portion of the cooked rice was also made to be distributed to the garland-suppliers and the drummers.
TAS., Vol. IV, pt. 2, No. 115, p. 157, Kanyakumari Inscriptions, pt. III, No. 282/1968.
The inscription does not mention the name of the king, however, the editor of the epigraph has assigned it to Udaiyamartāṇḍavarma Mahārāja.
For a history of the Jaina temples in the southern part of Tamilnadu, See, A. Ekambaranathan, "Jainism in Kanyakumari District", Journal of the Madras University, Vol. XLVIII, 1976, pp. 1-8.
