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prefix to the name of the king, the similarity of the alphabet and of the phraseology leaves hardly any doubt that the Kapnaradeva of the present record is identical with that of the two others. An unpublished inscription of the sixteenth year of the same king, in which he is called Kachchiyun-Tanjaiyur=konda fri-Kannaradeva (with nn instead of an in the second syllable), is engraved on the ruined Vishụu temple at Ukkal in the North Arcot district.
The inscription records the gift of Velúrppåļi to the shrine of Pappa[p]peśvara, which a certain Pannappai had established on the hill of Sudadupärai in Pangaļa-nadu, & subdivision of the district of Paduvûr-kottam. Pannappeśvara means the Isvara (Siva) shrine founded by Pannappai, who was perhaps & female relation of the donor. Velûrppadi must be an old form of the modern Vélappadi, and Sud&dupârai the ancient name of the Bavaji or Bhagavati hill.
The donor was the Nulamba Tribhuvanadhira, whose son, likewise named a Nuļamba, had received (or purchased P) Vélûrppadi, together with the hill of Sudadupärai, from ViraChola. The inscription ends with a captatio benevolentia and an imprecation. Between both is inserted the signature of the glorious Pallava-Murari,' i.e. the Vishnu among the Pallavas.' This epithet must be taken as a surname of the Nulamba Tribhuvanadhira, who is represented as speaking in the first person throughout the preceding part of the inscription.
Both Vira-Chôļa and Tribhuvanadhira must have been subordinates of Krishna III. As Virs-Chola is introduced without any regal titles, it remains doubtful whether he was a member of the Chôļa dynasty, which had been subdued by Krishna III., or a local chief who was named or surnamed after a Chola king. The Nuļamba Tribhuvanadhira alias PallavaMurári was probably connected with the Pallava rulers of the Noļambavadi Thirty-twothousand, which later on became a province of the empire of the Western Chalukyas.
TEXT.5 1 1 Svasti eri [11] Kannaradêvarku yându irubatt-&pavadu 2 Paduvuukkottattu-Ppangalanáttu
va[da]kkil Vagai-T[st](chchû) 3 dadupârai-malai mêl=Ppannappai
eduppitta 4 Pappa[p]pêśvarattukku
pôgam=åga
i-nnåtta
Vélů5 rppadie[n] ma[ga]n Nulam[ba] Vira-solar pakkal 6 südadupärai-malai? aga-ppada dharai
attavittu
ko7 ndu 86an[a]r-adittar=ul-aļavum
adaka-půryvafi=jey8 du kadutten Nu[la]mban Tiribuvanadiran-en [1] 9 I-[a]dhanma[m] rakshittar=adienmuļi mêlana [1] Sri(srl)-Palla10 va-Murari [1] 1-[*]dhanma[m*] ipakkuvân Gangai Kumariy-idai-chche11 ydar
se[y]da
påvan=golvån
See my Annual Report for 1892-93, p. 6.
• The village of Udayêndiram in the Gudiyatam tåluka of the North Arcot district belonged to MélAdaiyaru-nadu, another subdivision of Paduvar-kottam ; see South Indian Inscriptions, Vol. II. p. 866.
i Regarding other chiefs of the same name see above, Vol. III. p. 80, note 2.
4 Seo Above. Vol. III. p. 230, Table; Dr. Fleet's Kanarese Dynasties, p. 48 ff.; and Mr. Rice's Mysore Inscriptions. Introduction, p. liil, ff. The great Chola king Rajaraja claims to have conquered Nolamba padi; see, .. South Indian Insoriptions, Vol. I. p. 68. Later on, Noņambavadi was taken by the Hoyal king Vishnuvardhaus; see Dr. Fleet's Kanarono Dynasties, p. 66, and Sir W. Elliot's Coins of Southern India, Plate iii, No. 91.
* From Inked estampages prepared in 1895. • The letter ba of irubao bad been originally omitted and was subsequently inserted between rwandt. 7 The syllable pd is written on an erasure. • Rend chandr. (Sanskrit or landir. (Tami!).
