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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
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The relationship which the members of the committee or commissioners (ganattar) bore to the village assembly is not clear. In other words, their respective jurisdiction is not known. The commissioners are said to be ruling the village. Two other villages besides Tiruvippirambēdu are at present known to have possessed this constitution, vis. Uttiranmērür, the modern Uttaramallur in the Chingleput district and Aimbaņdi, the modern Ammandi near
TiruvaMam in the North Arcot District. These seem to have been pretty large villages. Perhaps the commissioners were expected to represent the interests of the king.
A.-Inscription of the time of Vikramaditya Māvali-Vāņarāya: dated in the 23rd year of
Nandippottaraiyar.
TEXT. 1 Svasti [11] Sri-Nanti(ndi)
13 r Vēppambola2 ppöst*]taraiyark
14 ppal ivr-ur-kļu3 ku yipdu iru
15 Deganattaru! Ku. 4 battu-mügrā
16 Jaippa[1]ūr-Kka5 vadu Vikkirama
17 niyar [A]gpisa[r]mma6 ditte(tta)-Māvali
18 vilaisråva[v]ai7 Vāņarāyar Vadu
19 yil virra kon8 gavaļi-mērku
20 do ivv-ir Perasu9 Prithiviräjyan
21 ra(rā)misvarattu Mahādē. 10 jeys:5 Tiruvi[p]pira
22 varkku tiruvilak11 mbēd-alun-gana
23 ku-ney-ppuram-[a]12 ttära! Mullir-killa)
24 ga kuduttar [lo] 25 ivv-or sabhaiyömmum innilatté ivv-tr-ch[che]kk-n!(!]ya ellám 26 nattaettiruvilakkukkêy våya eņņai koļvadaga=ppaụittom? [11]
TRANSLATION Hail! In the twenty-third year of the reign) of the glorious Nandippottaraiyar,-while Vikramiditya-Māvali-Vanaraya was ruling over the Vadugavali-mērku (province), Mullirkilár, (one) of the members of the committee (gana) administering (the village of) Tiruvi[p]pirambēdu, purchased by a deed of sales (the field called) Vēppambolappal (from) Kaņiyar Agnisarman of Kulaippalür, (one) of the members of the committee administering this village, and gave (it) to (the god) Mahādēva (Siva) of (the temple of) Parasuramiśvars at this village, as an endowment for (supplying) ghee to the sacred lamp3.9 The assembly of this village
1 South-Ind. Insacra. Vol. III. p. 3.
Ibid. p. 113. (Valachcberi in the North Arcot district was another such village se Nos. 302, 308, 312 and 815 of the Madras Epigraphical Collection for 1911.-H. K. S.)
No. 229 of the Madras Epigraphical collection for 1903. As will be seen from the accompanying photolithographie plate, 11. 1 to 24 are engraved on one of the broad sides of the stone and Il. 25-26 on one of the narrow sides.
• The secondary å of på is a separate symbol. • The risarga is used here as a sign of punctuation; compare South-Ind. Ingers. Vol II. p. 111, note 1. • The aksharas hadë are much smaller than the rest of the inseription.
The pulli which is conspicnous by its absence in the whole inscription is marked on the last letter n.
The term vilai-trävanai occurs twice in a similar context in South Ind. Insers. Vol. 111. p. 106, text-line 5.
. With tirweilakku-ney-ppuram compare ambala-ppuram (above, Vol. 111. p. 285, text-line 7), Mandamine puram (South-Ind. Ingera. Vol. IIl. p. 5, text-line 6), pudukku-ppuram (ibid. p. 7, test-line 8) and woooligai. Ppwww (ibid. p. 18, tert-live 6).
