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(Vishnu) at Kattuttumbur (i.. Solapuram), which must be identical with the temple of Peruma! (Vishnu) on which the inscription is engraved. The temple was named Kanakavalli-Vishnugpiha after the village of Kansksvelli, in which some land was granted to it. The name of the person who built the temple and granted land to it is lost.
TEXT. 1 Svasti er[i] [11") KO V[i]gaiya-[Ka]mpevikkiramaparumarkk-iyanda
irubattu-mu(mu)právadu [Pa]duv[0]r-kkottattu Ppa[n]9 gala-nattu-Kk&ftuttumbar Nåråyana-bhattaragarkku erf-koy[i]1 eduppitta
Ka[na]kava[lli]-Vishnu-griham engu. 3 m nâmathê(dhê)yattál amaippittu idaņukka (tri]kálam a radhippadajkum
trická]lam tiru-amurdukkum nandê-vilakkum årâdhippåņukku jivitamum âga i-kkôtfatta i-nâţgu Kaņakavalli êri ki(ki)l bhimi i-1
TRANSLATION. Hail! Prosperity! (In) the twenty-third year of king Vijaya-Kampavikramavarman a sacred temple was caused to be built to the god Narayana (at) Kattuttumbur in Pangaļa-nadu, (a subdivision of Paduvûr-köttam; (it) was endowed with the name Kanakavalli-Vishņugļiha; and, for the worship at the three times of the day), for offerings at the three times (of the day), (for) & perpetual lamp, and as a living for the worshipper, there was granted] to it land below the tank of Kanaksvalli in the same koffam (and) in the same nadu.
C.-INSCRIPTION OF SAKA-SAMVAT 871. This Tamil inscription (No. 428 of 1902) is engraved on a rock near pond called Kallanguțțai, south-west of Solapuram.
The date of this inscription is expressed in three different ways, vis. (a) “the year two;" (6) the Saks year 871 (in words); and (c) "the year in which the emperor KannaradevaVallabha, having pierced R&jaditya, entered the Tondai-mandalam." The second and third portions of the date furnish an interesting confirmation of the Atakûr inscription, according to which the Rashtrakůta king Krishna III, had killed the Chola king Rajaditya at Takkôlam in Saka-Samvat 872 current, the Saumya-samvatsara = A.D. 949-50. As the date of the Solapuram inscription does not contain a cyclic year, it is impossible to say if its Saks year has to be taken as expired or current. In the former case the date would be the same as that of the Âtakûr inscription, and in the second case it would be A.D. 948-49. The year two" with which the Solapuram inscription opens cannot refer to the reign of Krishna III., because we know from the Debli plates that Amoghavarsha, the father of Krishna III., had died and that the latter was reigning in A.D. 940. Hence, as far as I can see, the "year two" can only refer to the reign of the Chola king Rajaditya. This would indirectly confirm Professor Kielhorn's calculation of the date of an inscription at Kûram, according to which the 40th year of Parantaka I., the father and immediate predecessor of Rajâditya, corresponded to A.D. 946.5 It may now be provisionally assumed that Parântaks I. reigned from about A.D. 907 to at least 946, and that Raj&ditya was crowned in about A.D. 948 and was killed by Krishna III. in about A.D. 949.
The purpose for which the subjoined inscription was engraved was to record the construction of the pond near which it is found, and which was called the Kallinangai pond
The remainder of the inscription is lost. . Above, Vol. V. p. 196, V. 27 and 28. See p. 1 above.
* See above, Vol. VI. p. 51. • Dr. Fleet's Dyn. Kan. Distr. p. 180.
