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kings. When the southern quarter had obtained him as (her) husband, she dropped her girdle (or she lost Kanchi).
(V. 15.) After that, when the eldest (brother) had gone to heaven, the middle one of them, who was called king Betta, being free from passions on account of (his religions) austerities (and) despising the desire for (worldly) pleasures, conferred the government, without any disturbances, on Tammusiddhi, though being the younger (brother).
(V. 16.) Victorious is a certain living necklace of pearls, called Tammusiddha, an ornament to the earth for a very long time, which comes from a ridge of high mountains, which is well rounded, which has numerous windings of strings, which shows a fine gem in the centre, which has an elegant and pleasant form, (and which thus resembles the king, who is born in a family of great kings, who leads a virtuous life, who combines in himself a series of good qualities. who enjoys the dignity of a chief, and who has a handsome and graceful appearance)..
(V. 19.) And in the same year (viz. 1129) this (king Tammusiddhi) gave to him (i.e. the lord of Pâsipura) the village called Kaivantûr, to the delight of the merchants of his town.
No. 18.
ARULALA-PERUMAL INSCRIPTION OF THE TIME OF PRATAPARUDRA;
SAKA-SAMVAT 1238.
BY E. HULTZSCH, PH.D.
This inscription (No. 43 of 1893) is engraved on the west side of the base of the verandah surrounding the stone-platform called "the hill" (malai) in the Arulala-Perumal temple at Little Conjeeveram. The first six lines are fully preserved; but of 11. 7-10 the beginnings are built in. The preserved portion contains seven verses in the Sanskrit language and the Grantha alphabet. Verse 4 is followed by a prose passage in the Tamil alphabet and language, and another Tamil prose passage occurs between vv. 5 and 6.
Vv. 2-4 record that Muppidi, a general (nayaka) of the Kakatiya king Prataparudra of Ekasilânagari, came to Kâñchi and installed a certain Mânavira as governor of Kanchi. The Tamil portion records that the same Muppidi-Nayaka granted the revenue from two villages to the Arulala-Perumal temple at Kâñchipuram. This revenue amounted to an annual sum of 1,002 "mádai of Gandagopala." Of this sum, 240 madai were set aside for paying the attendants of a flower-garden on the southern bank of the Velka, which the donor had purchased for 500 panam from a certain Perumâl-tâdar; 360 máḍus for daily offerings, etc.; 20 máḍai for purificatory rites in Chaitra; and 382 mádai for buildings. Those lines which are only partially preserved seem to have contained a list of gifts of ornaments and articles of worship (1. 6 f.), a list of buildings to be erected in the temple (1. 8), and a list of trees to be planted in the flower-garden (1. 9). The inscription ends with praises of Muppiḍi-Nayaks.
The inscription contains two dates, both of which fell into Saka-Samvat 1238 (expired), the Nala-samvatsara, A.D. 1316-17. On the first date Muppiḍi installed Mânavira (verse 1), and on the second date he made his grant to the temple (line 3). Professor Kielhorn has favoured me with the following calculation of these two dates:-"The first date regularly corre ponds to Friday, the 11th June A.D. 1318, when the 5th tithi of the dark half in the solar month Suchi (Mithuna) ended 7 h. 5 m. after mean sunrise. The second date regularly
1 This name is the Tamil equivalent of Vishnu-dasa.
