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South Arcot District
389
Findspot
On the south wall of the Nityakalyāṇadēva shrine in the same temple.
Dynasty
Chola
King
Kulottunga I
Date
8th regnal year (1078 A.D.)
Language
and Script
Tamil
Contents
A damaged record. Seems to register the gift of 40 cows for burning a perpetual lamp, probably infront of the god KachchiNayakadēra in the southern shrine of the temple, Narpattennayiraperumpaļļi, at Tirunagungonpai.
Reference
South Indian Temple Inscriptions, Vol. I, pt. 1, No. 80.
Remarks
The verse at the end of another epigraph of Kulottunga III (South Indian Temple Inscriptions, Vol. I, pt. 1, No. 71) from Tirunagungoņdai refers to a certain Mashapati, i.e., the head of the matha. There is at present no matha in the village. The pontiff of the Jains in Tamilnadu now lives at Chittämūr and the pitha is called Jinakañchi pitha. The mention of the god Kachchi Nayakadēva in the temple at Tirunagungoņgai suggests that the matha, now at Chittā mūr, was at that time located at Tirunafungoņdai. Ibid., Vol. I, pt. 1, No. 80, Notes.
