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No. 3.]
MANUR INSCRIPTION OF MARANJADAIYAN.
Of the geographical data supplied by the inscription, Mäpanilainallar is obviously the present Māņür. The nädu in which this place was located bore the name Kalakkudi. Other places in Kalakkudi-nādu mentioned in the inscriptions are Karuvānallür, seven miles to the north of Sankaranayinārköyil, and Karavandapuram, which seems to have had the alternative name of Kalakkudi as can be inferred from the Anaimalai inscriptions. It has been suggested that Kalakkudi might be identical with the modern village of Kalakkad in the Nääguneri Tālukt. Considering that the nādu extended to the north beyond. Sankaranayinārkāyil, it may be doubted if Kalakkudi-Karavandapura could be the same as Kalakkādu, too far south in the Nārgunēri Tāluk. Ambāsamudram and Sērmādēvi to the north of Kalakkādu were part of Mulli-nādu, and Kalakkādu is itself said to have been in the Vanavap-nādu, in a record of a later date. There is a village called Kalakkudi in the Tinnevelly Taluk itself, which may possibly have been the headquarters of the nādu.
TEXT.
First side. 1 Svasti brī! Ko Mārañja2 daiyarkku yandu 3 muppattañju 4 nāļ nāņ-nürs-apu5 pattu-oqbadu i6 n-nālāl Kalak[ku]di7 nättu brahmadēyam Māne8 [ni]lainallūr māhāsa9 bhaiyōm perunguri bā10 Fri Sri-Gova[r*jddhanattu-kkū. 11 di irundu ivv=ūrmā12 hāsa bhaiyom kudi? manrā. 13 duvadanukku seyda vyavastai14 y=āvadu ivv=ur pangudai15 yār makkal sabhaiyil man16 rādukiradu oru dha[r*]ma[m*]-utpa17 da Mantirabrāhmaṇam vallar su18 vřittar=ãy iruppārē oru pan19 giņūkku oruttarē sabhaiyil 20 manräduvadāgavum vilaiyum 21 (pratigrahamum stri-dhanamum-udlai-)"
Second side.
22 yāroru dhanmam=uppali 23 da Mantirabrāhmaṇam
1 No. 424 of 1906 of the Madras Epigraphical collection • No. 418 of 1906 of the same collection . Ante, Vol. VIII, p. 318 and n. 8.
• Ibid. * No. 130 of 1905 of the Madras Epigraphical collection.
. Read maha. * Read kūdi. The suggestion may be made that kudi-mahradu modno : deliberate on the main of the villago'; but there is no other instance of such wago.
• Road: ivrir. .Read mukkes. Conjectoral reading based on L 28 Below. .
11 Read upadkt
