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IV. Sakalabhuvanachakravartigal Avapiy-ala-ppirandár alias sri-Kopperufijingadeva.
1. 3rd year : Chidambaram, No. 462 of 1902. 2. Do.
No. 465 of 1902. 3. Do.
No. 466 of 1902. 4. 5th year:
No. 459 of 1902. 5. Do.
No. 464 of 1902. V. Sakalabhuvanachakravartigal sri-Avapiy-&ļa-ppisandár alias Kôpperusjingadêva.
1. 5th year: Chidambaram, No. 463 of 1902. 2. 8th year: do. No. 460 of 1902. 3. 34th year: do. No. 461 of 1902.
4. 36th year: do. No. 456 of 1902. The Vallam inscription of the 14th yearl mentions prince (pillaiyar) Nllagangaraiyar,' apparently a son of Kopperuõjingadēva. An inscription in the Aruļ&!a-Perumal temple at Conjeeveram (No. 41 of 1893), which is dated in the 22nd year of Tribhuvanachakravartin VijayaGandagôpåladêva, records the gift of a flower-garden by Nilaganga of Åmûr, who bore the surname Bhu-pålan-8dbhava (in Sansksit) or Puvi-Ala-ppiranda (in Tamil), s.e. 'who was born to rule the earth.' This person is no doubt identical with the prince Nilagan garaiyar of the Vallam inscription, and his surname is a slight modification of Avariy-đļa-ppirandár, the title of his father Köpperuñjingadêve.
As stated on page 163 above, the Tiruvêndiparam inscription mentions among the partisans of Köpperuñjinga a certain Slakon. This person is probably identical with an officer whose name occurs in most of the Chidambaram inscriptions of Kopperuñjingadeva. In one inscription he is called "Perumalppillai alias Slakópar, (one) among his (vis. Kopperanjingadêva's) officers, and in another (No. 462 of 1902) "the lord of Arasûr, Sengagivayar alias Pillai Solakópar Aliyar.” The grant portion of the Chidambaram inscriptions of the 3rd to 16th years opens with the words soļakon blai, i.e. " the order of Slakon," and ends with the words svai Solakór eluttu, i.e. this is the signature of Solakon." Accordingly, Solakón must have been the representative of Koppernñjingadva at Chidambaram until at least A.D. 1258-59.
A short undated inscription at Tiruvêndiparam supplies the name of Solakón's younger brother. This inscription (No. 146 of 1902) runs as follows: 1 Svasti sri [ll*] Avagi
7 Ślakon ta[m]2 Ala-ppiranda
8 bi Peruma! Vê3 Kôpperui
9 [njadudaiyan se[y]4 jingadevar ti
10 vitta tirukkopura5 rumênikku nagri
11 m || 6 ga Sengagivậyan "Hail! Prosperity! For the benefit of the royal body of him who was born to rule the earth, Köpperngjingadêva,- Peruma? Vēņådudaiyap, the younger brother of Serganivayan Bolakon, caused to be made this sacred gopura."
Venadudaiyên seems to have succeeded his elder brother as officer in charge of Chidambaram. For, in two Chidambaram inscriptions of the 34th and 36th years of Koppernñjingadêya (Nos. 461 and 456 of 1902), the grant portion opens with the words Vånddudaiyin dlai and ends with the words ivai Vénádudaiyap eluttu.
1 Above, p. 166, clause II. No. 4.
As the 16th and 10th years of this king corresponded to A.D. 1266 (Ind. Ant. Vol. XXII. p. 220), the date of this inscription must fall in A.D. 1271-72.
No. 460 of 1902:- ivar modaligalil Perumdippillai dya Solak Ondr.
