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No 14.1.
PATTATTALMANGALAM GRANT, OF NANDIVARMAN.
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! TIRANDALI A te hae vabi s M si Verse 1). Hail! Prosperity. Let that body of the husband of Stl (da, Vishnu), which in resplendent with the kaustubha jewel onsita cheat and which with a hundred matrahata like armag is lying on the ocean, resembling a collection of clouds Instrous with the interspersed lightning and settling on the waters of the ocean to imbibe (ite). water, grant you welfare aliv od o s bowl. 2) That which is the highest plaob of salvation, lå immutable, id omnipresetit,' is contemplated on by yogis and that which tha Brahmans excessively extol always with firm wisdom and with the chanting of the Vēdas, which though itself undivided, assumes ehree differentiations by adopting the three qualities in order to accomplish the work of protection, destruction and creation may that all pervading object protect you to browol bus 18w iw ten
(V.3). From the navellotus of Nátektrite. Vishnu was born Brahma from him was born) Angiras; from him Dēvaguru (i.e., Bțihaspati) dom him (Came) Samyu the best of sages from hiskon Bharadviga (was borhy Drona'Who Was renowned as an archer in the Battle-field from hihi teatre) Draud Yie. Afvabtamany who was of resistable great power, and from him came Pantal bed 9 od 89.8 l build to lisboa
5-ox. opvadas -deilyv. 4Lakshmi and the Goddess of Eatkhaving attained the status of contortal to the kings of this family they could not be approptiated by the assemblage of othery kings.
(Vy. 5 and 6). In this dynasty of kings, whose family vow was the accumulation of fame, by giving largesses to suitors after having made the wealth their own by conquering all enemy kings, after the illustrious Virakurcha and others had gone to Heaven after having enjoyed the sea-girt earth for a long time, there camo Hiranyavarman, the foremost of rulers and then Nandivarman, whose' glorious feet were rubbed against by the diadems of all kings.
(V. 7. This king of renowned prawes whose foot-stool was the crown of prostrate kings, ruled his kingdom, even while young, after having killed his enemies and conquered the kingdom single-handed with his unsheathed sword scintilating in his hand.
(v. 8). The entire world was, vidofite darkness by his fame with which all the quarters were whitened, and the sun and the moon were (only) useful for awakening (.e., opening) the lotus and lilyi ponde respectively.
(V.) At his gabe there await without (getting opportunity (tolenter the Vallabhas, the Kaļabhras, the Koraļas, the Pāņdyas, the Cholas, the Tuļus, the Korkanas and others desirous of obtaining admission to serve (him).
manoy. The ervatit of this kis) who was the "storehouse of austerities and virtue, who was, hernio, highly.distingpished, respected by the goods whose wealth was honour, whose spreading fame enveloped the interior of all the quarters, and in whom, who was the relative of the world, the name Mangalarashtra-bhartri (the lord of the district called Mangala-tāshtra) becstfrie Werftohti, gate to a concourse of Brahmans (their) desired object, having repeatedly petitioned the king. T . .
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10 si (V. 11). May this gift of the ruler of the country of Maagala, the subordinate of the Pallava king watand an long as the Earth, the ocean, the Moon and the Sun (exist). U
(L1. 22 to 32). In the sixty-first year of (the reign of) king, Vijaya-Nandivikramavarman, the following order to the residents (of Arvala-kūrfam) was issued at the request of Mangalanādālvip and at the command (äratti) of Vijaiyanallülān of Alappākam :
Let the residents of Tenkarai-Arvalia-kurram in the Choļa country (Sola-nadu) observe. Out of the forty-five vēli (of land) round about the free village of ... in your sub-division, efter stoluding the bla. bratomade of twenty-four beli there remain sixteen peli (of land). These sixteen véli--formed by adding together the twelve behi fot land which the king. (Perumanadigan had been pleased to grant as a brahmalayd in the fatty-nkinth year (optis reign) at the request
