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of Apaimangalam to a Buddha temple at Negapatam during the time of the Chōla king Rajaraja I (A.D. 985-1010). The smaller Leyden grant dated in the 20th year of Kulottunga I (A.D. 1090) records gifts to two Buddhist temples. An ancient tower known as 'Puduveligopuram' or Jaina Pagoda' was demolished by the Jesuits when they built the St. Joseph's College at Negapatam. This tower might have belonged to one of these two Buddha temples. It is interesting to note that a number of metallic Buddhist images were unearthed at this place recently.
Though Jain families are living in Tanjore, Kumbakonam and Mannargudi even now, and we see Jain temples at Kumbakonam and Mannargudi, yet traces of Buddhism are no longer visible there.
The record bears at the end the expression " (the) Gurukkal, (i.e., teachers) of the Convention", perhaps of Buddha.
1 Vikkira
2
ma-varusham
3 [A]di-madam3 2
4 24 6
5 Sevuvap
6 pa-Nayak
7 kar-ayya
8 9-damma
9 m-aga Ti
10 ruvilan
11 durai
12 Buddar
13 köyil
14 Titta-Ma[ma]ru
TEXT.'
15 nda-Nayakar
16 nilatti[1]ē
17 Tirumalai
18 rasapura[ttu] 19 "abesham-ā
20 ga sapangal 21 vākkāl ve
This symbol stands for the word tedi meaning day.
Read Sevvap.
22 [tti] pōgaiyil Ti
23 rumalairasapurattil
24 agarattil tirup
25 papi-servai=
26 aga vi[ṭṭa] nilams 21" 27 [sa]mayattar Guru28 kkal
TRANSLATION.
(Lines 1 to 26) (On) the 22nd day of the month of Adi in the year Vikrama, all the people of Tirumalairajapuram assigned 24 (veli of) land in the brahman village (agaram) of Tirumalairāja.
1 Ind. Ant., Vol. VII, pp. 224-27 and Annual Report on South-Indian Epigraphy for 1925-26, p. 2.
From an inked estampage.
Expressed by an abbreviated symbol.
The figure 22 is expressed in the Tamil text by three digits, the numerical figure for ten intervening between the two figures.
It may be read also as abisha-magabanangal (mahajananga}).
Expressed by an abbreviated symbol.
Expressed by a Tamil numeral.
