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SENDALAI PILLAR INSCRIPTIONS.
and a few other places in the Trichinopoly district there was in use in ancient times a weight called Videlviḍugu-kal. The naming of places, wells, tanks and weights, such as here noticed, cannot but point to the sway of the members of the Mattaraiyan family in this part of the country. Their inscriptions have, as already pointed out, been found in the Tanjore and Trichinopoly districts and in the Pudukkottai State. Though these are few, the unmistakable marks left by them in the country are not so. On the growth of the Chola power in Tanjore the Muttaraiyans scem to have sunk into insignificance. A certain Vijayalaya Muttaraiyan figures as a signatory in a record of the Chola king Kulottunga I, discovered at Tiruneḍungulam in the Trichinopoly district. Probably he was an officer under the Chola sovereign. It may also be noted that the village of Muttarasanallur in the same district may date from early times and may probably have to be trace 1 to some member of these kings. There is a class of people who call themselves Muitarasans, and this is perhaps the only living remnant of this ancient dynasty.
1 dutta [Perumbiḍugu Muttarai2 yan-yina Kuvavan Maran-ava
3 n magan Ilangōvadiyaraiya.
Inscriptions on the first pillar. A. Top section; north face.
TEXT.
4 n-ayiņa Māran Paramesvaraṇ-a
5 van magan Perumbiḍugu Mutta6 raiyan ayina Suvaran Maṛan-ava
7 neduppitta paḍari-kōyil-ava
8 -erindav-ñrgalum-avan perga9 lum-avanai-ppäḍinar pergalum-i10 ttüngan-mel-eladina ivai
1 [8-Mao]
2 Sri-Satri kosari
TRANSLATION.
Perumbiḍugu Muttaraiyan alias Kuvävan Maran. His son (was) Ilangovadiyaraiyan alias Maran Parameśvaran. His son (was) Perumbiḍugu Muttaraiyan alias Suvaran Maran. The Pidari temple (was) built by him. The places which he conquered, the names (borne by) him and the names (of the poets) who sung of him are engraved on these pillars. These
3 Sri-Kalvarkalvan
4 Sri Atisahasan.
B. Same section; west face. TEXT.?
1 No. 466 of the Madras Epigraphical collection for 1908.
2 No. 670 of the same collection for 1909.
This village is at a distance of 5 miles from Trichinopoly.
This class of people is mostly to be found in the Tanjore and Trichinopoly districts.
A portion of the inscription is mutilated at the beginning.
There is not much significance in this word here.
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These are the titles of the king and as such are not translated. They may be rendered as the glorious Cupid, the glorious lion to the enemy, the chief kalva of the kalvar and he who is thoroughly truthful or brave. Kalrar are perhaps a class of people and may be a variant of kallan, a tribe inhabiting the Madura District and Pudukkottai State.
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