Epigraphia Indica Vol 04

SR No.: 032558
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: E Hultzsch
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India
Publication Year: 1896
Total Pages: 458
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 20 MB

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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
[Vol. IV.
nakshatra, as well as the yearly car-festival; and every day to provide food of all kinds for the Vaishnava twice-born and their wives, children and aged people, at the extensive hall of the holy Râmânuja here constructed."
For these purposes, then, the king granted thirty-one villages which are enumerated, and the exact position of which is specified, in vv. 54-116 (lines 131-230). Verse 54 shows that all were in the Chandragiri rajya of the Jayankonda-Chôļa mandala.
Sixteen villages belonged to the Mahaļûr náduka of the senkåțţu kôtaka ;* they were :
1-5 (vv. 55-59). The villages Kachchipattu, Perumbuduru, Kilepattu, Kusapattu, and Pâtéri, all in the Kachchipattu síma, and situated east of Patichcheri and Vatamangala, south of Malepattu and Sriperumbuduru, west of the Brahmana (?) tank of the village Venkäţu, and north of Poļûr, Irungols and Mâmpaka-Sriperumbûdûr is in the Conjeeveram taluka? of the Chinglepat district, lat. 12° 58' N., long. 80° E. About 24 miles west of it the map shows Padicheri [Padichchêri] and Vadamangalam ; about 3 miles east-south-east of it Venkadu, with a large tank to the north of it; about 4 miles south-west of it Mambakkam ; and about 2 miles south-west of it Irunkuļam.
6 (vv. 60-62). The village Achchamperumpêta(du), east of Valletâncheri and Tattanûruviļâha, south of Kundimperumpēti(du), west of Oranêri and Nallanperuntêri, and north of Periñchipäkakuppa and Matancheri.-The map shows no name corresponding to Achchamperumpêta(du); but from 4 to 5 miles south by east of Sriperumbûdûr we find Tattanür, Valatånchéri, Kunduperumbêdu, Nallâmperambódu, and Periñjem påkkam.
7 (vv. 63-64). The village Pudra(duP)chchéri, east of Sômamangala, south of Mêlahara, west of Nadupattu, and north of Manimangal(a) and Kottakala.- The map has Puducheri [Puduchchêri ] 7 miles east and slightly south of, and Manimangalam about 7 miles south-east of Sriperumbûdûr; close to Puducheri on the west it has Somangalam(!), and on the cast Naduvirappattu (Nadupattu).
+ According to Mr. Krishna Sastri, the Vaishnavas generally understand by tiru-nakshatra the nakshatra under which Ramanuja was born. His birth is believed to have taken place under the sakshatra Tiruvadiri (Ardra in Sanskrit); compare Ind. Ant. Vol. XXIII. p. 121, No. 61.- [A recent instance of the use of tirsakshatra is supplied by the subjoined notice of the publishers of the Bangalore Sanskrit journal Manasbildrin :« Our renders are requested to excuse us for not having published the issue of the last Monday, the 29th April 1895. on account of the absence of our compositors and others for Ramanujaeb&r's Tirunakshatram."-B.H.]
i I take Ramanujada to be eqnivalent to Ramanuja-mandape, and believe that the building referred to is the one described by Dr. Buchanan in his account of Sriperumbador (Journey through Myrore, Vol. III. p. 468), thus: Near this is the spot where the great man (Ramanuja) was born. A stone ebamber has been erected over it; and between this and the temple is one of the finest Mandapar, or porticos, that I have seen erected by Hindus. It is of grent size, and supported by many columns; but, as usual, it is neglected, and has become ruinous and dirty.'-Ramdunja kilpa also occurs in Kp. Carn, Part I. p. 57, 1. 16.
On the Jayabkonda-Choln mandala we above, Vol. III. p. 149. The Chandragiri rdjya apparently was 80 called after the town Chapdragiri in the Chandragiri tálaks of the North Arcot district ; ne ibid. p. 119.
The place Mahalar, after which the adduka is named, I cannot identify : Sonkatta is the genitive of sengada, a village about 5 miles north by west of Sriperumbudur.-In order to save repetition, I ball give here at once the names of the villages contained in the Map of the Chingloput and Madras Districts, which appear to correspond to the names given by the inscription. For places wbich are not in the Chingloput district (the village 80 and 81, and their boundaries) the necessary information has been kiadly added by Dr. Hultzach, who also has revised the spelling of the names of places in the Chingleput district on the basis of the official English and Tamil lists of the villages in each tálaki.-I must express here my reapeetful thanks to the authorities of the India Office for the readiness with which they have placed at my disposal & copy of the Map of the Chingloput and Madras Districts, to enable me to edit this inscription.
* This apparently refers to the five first villages only.
A. Perumbailara itaelf is one of the villages granted, I do not understand what the author means by this Perumhüdår may have formed a bamlet of Sriperumbudur, which was excluded from the grant.-E. H.)
> The same remark holds good of all the villages enemersted under 1-16, and perhaps also of those ander 16.