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No. 36.-A NOTE ON THE VELVIKUDI GRANT OF NEDUNJADAIYAN.
By A. M. SATAKOPARAMANUJACKARYA, VIDVĪN. In the interesting article on the Vēlvikudi grant of Nedušijadaiyap, that was published in this journal by the late Rao Bahadur H. Krishna Sastri, I find that some corrections are absolutely necessary in the text and the translation as given by him. These I should like to put down below, together with a few suggestions in regard to one or two points raised by him in that article.
In text line 95, for Aya", I should like to read Ay, and in line 132 for por, pora. Again, in line 120 of the text, instead of Kulandaivan-Külvandai-be[y*]kkuri, I would read kulandai-vangu! Tanda-tavlekum, correcting Kulandai and vandai-se of the text into loufandas and vandazai. Accordingly, in the translation of this passage, instead of 'to the north of the field (called) Kūlvandai-bēy of Kulandēvani', I would prefer to have 'waved (gently) by the tender breeze 'fleulandai tender, vangüf=breeze, (vandu) adaikkum waving).
According to the Rao Bahadur, the Mangalapura of the inscription is identical with Mangalore, the district head-quarters of South Kanara. Mr. K. G. Sankara Ayyar also, I find, holds the same view. In my opinion, however, it should be looked for somewhere in the Tamil districts, north of the Kävēri, where we find many villages called Mangalam or having names ending in Mangalam ', because from the Udayēndiram plates we learn that Paramēb. VED varman defeated the army of Vallabha in the battle of Peruvalanallür, on the northern bank of the Kävēri, and from the Gadval grants, that Vikramaditya was encamping at “Uraga. puram on the southern bank of the Kāvēri” in 674 A.D. The Kēndur plates? also say ttuat Vilæamāditya I fought with the Pandyas and other Tamil kings.
1 These strokes are unnecessary. Metre Sragdhari. * Vol. XVII, pp. 291 ff.
Ind. Ant., Vol. LI.p. 214.
[The plates do not say where Mangalapura was situated. As such, it is not possible to definitely locate it. The identification of it with Mangalore or any place in the Tamil distriota is only a conjecture.-K. V. 8. Ayyar.)
.8.1.1., Vol. II, p. 371. . Above, Vol. X, p. 101.
Ibid., Vol. IX, p. 205. For further details see Dubreuil's The Pallapas, p. 62
