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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
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Poppambalanātha was succeeded in the Arantängi principality by Andiyappa Achyutanăyaka Tondaimän son of Tyagarasar Narasā-Näyaka, who had also the titles achchamariyadan and alaivilatujādān and whose earliest date so far known is Saka 1499 (=A.D. 1577), not far removed from the latest known date of Poppambalanátha, viz., A.D. 1569.
The line of Arantängi Chiefs is at present supposed to be represented by the Zaminder of Pälayavanam in the Pudukkottai State.' The chiefs of Asantāngi so far known from epigraphical sources are
1. Kulasēkhara-Tondaimāp' (1426 and 1443 A.D.), 2. Süryadēvar Sundarapāņdya-Tondaimā (1443 A.D.), 3. Malavallapperumal-Tondaimán, 4. Alagiya Manavalappermal-Tondaimán (1443 and 1453 A.D.), his son 5. Lakkaņadaņņāyaka-Tondaimār or Lakkappadaņņāyaka-Tondaimān (1453 A.D.), 6. Tirunelvēlipperumā! (1469 A.D.), 7. Ekapperumal-Tondaimán (1481 and 1499 A.D.), his three sons 8. Tīrāvinaitirttän-Tondaimāp (1497 A.D.), 9. Avudaiya-Näyinär-Tondaiman (1499 A.D.) and 10. Popnambalanātha-Tondaimán (1514-1569 A.D.), his son 11. Varavinõda Tondaimão (1536 A.D.), 12. Andiyappa Achyutanāyaka-Tondaimăg, son of Tyagarasar-Narasānāyaka (1577 A.D.)
and 13. Aruņāchala Vanangāmuļi-Tondaimāŋ, son of Raghunātha Vaņangāmudi-Toņdaimän
(1713 A.D.). Of the places mentioned in the record Mõlûr is the modern village of the same name about 16 miles north-west of Madura. Tirukkodunkupram (i.e., Piranmalai) is said to have been in Tirumalai-nādu which must have taken its name from the modern village Tirumalai in the Sivaganga taluk. The territorial name $olapāņdya-vaļanādu is significant and the division must have been formed after the establishment of the Chola viceroys in the Pāndya country, who specially called themselves sola-Pandyas.
TEXT. i í Svasti] [ll*] Srimap-ma[gā]maņdalīsuran [ariyarāya)-vibhādan bashchaikkut
tappuva-rāyira-gandan kanda-nadu-kondu konda-nādu-kudādā, pūrva2 deshana-pachchima-uttara-samuddirădhispati emma]ndalamym kondu elundaru
liya sri]-[Krishnad (va)-Mah[7]rāyar prithivi-rachchiyam panni-aruļānigra 3 sakābdam 1440 idanměl Vegu[dhāJaya-(varusha"]m uttarayanattu Mithuna-näyarru
apara-pashchattu [amāvābiyaiyum Mangalavāramum Viruddi4 yogamum perra irrai-nal Sūriya-giraņa-punniya-kälattu Tirumalai-nättut- Tiruk
kodunkuprattuto Nayipar Nallamangaibagarku Ara[n]tängi-arabu achchamariI No.511 of 1926 of the Madre Epigraphical collection. From the records so far available, it is not possible to say whether Varavinoda Tondaimão, the son of Pogpambalanátha succeeded his father as the chief of Aran.
tangi.
A General History of the Pudukkottai State, p. 84. From Nos. 299 of 1914 and 238 of 1930; Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4 mentioned above appear to be brothers. • Known only from & copper-plate record. Vide Sen Tamil, Vol. XII, p. 441 ff.
Read bhāshai. • Read dakshina-.
The word varusham is expressed by a symbol. Read a para-pakshattu.
The nakshatra is not given. 10 Tirukkodunkupram is also known M Dakshina-Kalliam in No. 193 and 213 of 1924.
