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other name was Sattan Måran. As his mother is stated to be Perumbidugu Perundēvi, we may take him for a probable son of No. 3 Perumbiduga Muttaraiyan. Padikalari alias Amarünri Muttaraiyan, referred to in a record of Påvälaikkudi, is perhaps an early king of tbis dynasty. A contemporary of Dantivarman of the Pallavatila ka family was a certain Mārppidugu. What his other name was, we do not know. Śättaŋ Paliyili, who excavated the care at Närttåmalai," was also a member of this branch. He was the son of a certain Vidolviduga, who must have been different from the one already noticed, because he appears to bave been the contemporary of the Ganga-Pallava Nripatunga. Later in point of time was A certain Satrubhayankara Muttaraiyan, whose queen figures as donor in a record of the l'and ya king Sadaiyamāran, discovered at Sevilipori in the Tinnevelly district. Perhaps this Sadaiyamāran is identical with Rājasimh-l'ândya, the opponent of the Chola king Parantaka I. Varaguiñanātti, the daughter of a certain Vidēlridugu Mattaraiyan, was the queen of Sembiyan Irukkuvõ!, whoso identity with tho Kodambālor chief Vikramakõsari is established in the Amul Report on Epigraphy for 1908, p. 88. As Vikramakisari is said to have fought with Vira-Pāndya, the opponent of Aditya II Karikāla, this Vidolvidugu may be considered to be different from the two others mentioned above. From what has been said now, the following synchronism may be established :
(1) Perambidugu Muttaraiyan alias Kuvāvan Maran. (2) Ilangvndiyariyan alias Māran Paramosvarap, son of (1). (3) Perumbidugu Mattaraiyan alias Suvaran Mārap, son of (2). (4) Vidolviduguvilappăradi Araisag alius Sáttap Māran, contemporary of Nandivarman,
a probable son of (3). (5) Märppiduga,
contemporary of Pallavatilaks
Danti. (6) Vidélviềuga,
contemporary of Ganga-Pallava
Nripatunga. (7) śáttan Paliyili,
son of (6). (8) Satrabhayankara Muttaraiyan,
contemporary of Sadniyamāran. (9) Vidēlvidugu Mattaraiyan,
contemporary of Vikrama
kosari. Several traces of the rule of this family exist in the Tanjore and Trichinopoly districts as well as in the Padukkottai State. Some of the inscriptions of the Chola king Rājarāja I (A.D. 985-1013) mention a place called Märppidugudēvi-chaturvēdimangalam in RajendrasimhaTalanādu, evidently called after one of the queens of Mārppidugu. The big well at Tiruvellarai called Märppidugu-Perunginaru was constructed between the 4th and 5th years of Dantivarman.8 Records of Parāntaka I found at Alambākkam show that there was, in ancient times, & tank called Mārppidug-ēri in that village. Alambākkam itself was called Dantivarmamangalam.10 An inscription of Danti discovered at Tiruvellarai makes mention of Mārppidugu. Ilangovē!,11 who should have been an officer ander Mārppidugu, At Uyyakkoņdāŋ-Tirumalai
No. 402 of the Madras Epigraphical collection for 1906. No. 149 of the same collection for 1007.
* The trasons for considering Marppiduga nsa feudatory of Danti are set forth in my paper on the Tiru. vejlarui well inscription, above, Vol. XI, pp. 154 ff.
No. 365 of the Madras Epigraphical collection for 1906. No, 421 of the same collection for 1906.
. She makes a grant to the temple at Kudumiya mulai in the 6th year of the reiga of Parakesarivarman (No. 337 of the Madras Epigraphical collection for 1904). South-Ind. Inserx., Vol. II, Part III, p. 325.
& Above, Vol. XI, pp. 155 ff. • No. 714 of the Madras Epigraphical collection for 1909. It is also referred to in the records of Rajakoari. varman and Parakösarivarman, some of wlich may be earlier than the time of Parautaka I.
10 Antal Report on Epigraphy for 1910, paragraph 14. u No. 88 of the Madras Epigraphical collection for 1910.
