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Kanyakumari District
No. 186
Village
Nāgercoil
Taluk
Agasteeswaram Kanyākumari
District
Findspot
On another pillar in the same place
Dynasty
(Travancore Mahārājas)
King
Date
Kollam 694 (1518 A.D.)
Tamil, Tamil and Grantha
Language
and Script
Contents
Records that the king (whose name is not known), when he was camping at Suchindram, made a gift of 15 ma of land as paļļichchandam in mēlpartu and ki!parru of the village Sēravanmādēvi and left them under the control of Guņavirapaņdita and Kamalavā hanapaņdita, for the expenses of night pū ja to the Nāga and Nāgarāja in the temple. The land was exempted from payment of taxes such as kadamai, upadi, viniyogam and kõmusaippadu.
Reference
ARE, 60/1896, TAS., Vol. IV, pt. 2, No. 118, p. 161. Kanyakumari Inscriptions, pt. III, No. 276/1968.
Remarks
Suchindram is a small town six kilometres south-east of Nagercoil. Saravanmādēvi is the same as Sēramādēvi, a village in Tirunelveli-kattabomman district.
