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(1.6 f.), destroyed Tondaimanallur, and halted at Tiruppêdirippuliyâr (1.7). Next they destroyed Tiruvadigai and Tiruvekkarai (1. 7) and the country between the Varanavâsi river in the north, Sendamangalam in the west, and the sea in the east (1. 8). As far as the route of Narasimha's two officers can be followed on the map, it appears that they crossed the present South Arcot district from south to north. Elleri and Kalliyurmalai (now Kaliyamalai) are in the southern portion of the Chidambaram taluka. Ponnambalam is one of the Tamil names of Chidambaram itself. Tonḍaimânallar is perhaps the modern Tondamânattam in the Cuddalore tâluka, and Tiruppadirippuliyâr is the well-known ancient name of Tirupâpuliyûr,' a railway station north of Cuddalore. Tiruvadigai is Tiruvadi' near Panrutti," and Tiruvekkarai is Tiruvakkarai in the Villupuram (Viluppuram) taluka. As regards Sendamangalam,' where Kopperañjinga kept the Chôla king prisoner, and at the gates of which the war seems to have ended, the Postal Directory of the Madras Circle mentions no less than eighteen villages of this name, three of which belong to the South Arcot district. The Sendamangalam which is intended here is probably the one in the Tirukoilur (Tirakkovalar) taluka. I am unable to identify the Varanavadi river, which has to be looked for to the north of Sêndamangalam,' and the village of Toludagaiyar, which must have been situated south of Chidambaram. It is not clear why Appana and Samudra-Goppaya selected the temple of Tiravêndipuram for engraving this account of their achievements. Perhaps it was at this village that they took leave of the Chola king Rajaraja III., whom they had rescued from the hands of Kopperañjinga at Sêndamangalam.
As far as we know at present, Narasimha II. was the first among the Hoysala kings who possessed a portion of the Trichinopoly district. In an inscription on a'virakal, dated in A.D. 1222,10 he is stated to be "marching against the Ranga in the South," i.e. the island of Srirangam, and in the Harihar inscription of A.D. 122411 he is already called 'the uprooter of the Makara kingdom' and 'the establisher of the Chôla kingdom.' Hence his conquest of Srirangam seems to have taken place between A.D. 1222 and 1224. This first invasion of the Makara and Chola kingdoms was distinct from and prior to the conquest of the same two kingdoms which is related in the Tiravêndipuram inscription, and it is presupposed by the wording of the latter, which implies that the king started on his new campaign in order to vindicate his previously earned title establisher of the Chola country. A further testimony to Narasimha's influence in the Chola country is supplied by an inscription in the Gokarpêévara temple at Tirugókarņam near Pudukkôṭṭai (No. 410 of 1902), which is dated in the [1]0th year of Tribhuvanachakravartin Rajarajadêva, i.e. A.D. 1225-26, and records a grant of land by a servant of Somaladevi,19 the wife of Somêévaradeva, the son of the Pôsala king Vira-Narasimhadeva of
Nos. 274 and 290 on the Madras Survey Map of this taluka. No. 229 on the Madras Survey Map of this taluka.
No. 204 on the Madras Survey Map of the Cuddalore taluka. See above, Vol. VI. p. 381 and note 8.
No. 79 on the Madras Survey Map of the Cuddalore taluks.
Tiruvakarai,' No. 239 on the Madras Survey Map of this taluks.
7 This word is derived from sendan, the red one,' a name of the god Skanda.
No. 288 on the Madras Survey Map of this taluka.
The nearest river on the north of Sendamangalam is the Gedilam..
1 Mr. Rice's Ep. Carn. Vol. VI, Cm. 56:- Saka-varusa 1144 Chitrabhdnu-sam rada Atolja-sudda 10 [da sami Mamgalaedradaamds. On this date Professor Kielhorn remarks as follows:-" For Asvins-sudi 10 of Saka-Sarhvat 1144 expired-Chitrabhanu this date is wrong; it would correspond to Friday, the 16th September A.D. 1222. If we could read sudda 7 sapta*]mi, it would regularly correspond to Tuesday, the 13th September A.D. 1222." 11 Dr. Fleet's Dyn. Kan. Distr. p. 507.
12 See above, Vol. III. p. 9, note 6. Another princess of the same name is mentioned in Mr. Rice's Ep. Carn. Vol. IV., Kp. 63. She is there compared to Lakshmt, and Narasimha II. to the Moon. Hence she must have been his sister, and not his wife as Mr. Rice thinks (ibid., Introduction, p. 21). According to other inscriptions, the wife of Narasimha II. and the mother of Somêévara was Kalaledêvt; see ibid. Vol. III., Md. 122; Vol. IV., Ng. 98; and Vol. VI., Kd. 125.
