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inscriptions of Adhirajendra refers to some transactions made in the 8th year of Virarājëndra, Dr. Hultzsch has correctly placed him between Virarajendra and Kulottunga I. We may suppose that his actual rule over the Chōla dominion commenced in the later part of his 2nd year when perhaps Virarājëndra died, and this must have taken place in A.D. 1069. As his Tiruvallam inscription is dated in the 200th day of his 3rd regnal year, he must have had charge of the Chōla territory for very nearly a year. Another inscription of this king found at Kuhur, dated in this very year, is also very interesting as it tells us that in the latter part of that year there was some concern about the king's health for the recovery of which provision was made for the recital of the sacred hymns (tiruppadigam) in the temple of Mambalamudaiya-Mahadeva at the village. Perhaps the disease could not be cured and proved fatal. Two other epigraphs of the king3 inform us that the village Sengēņi and Aḍaiyur were under the rule of chiefs who bore the title Karikalachōla, which was one of the surnames of Adhirajendra's father Virarājëndra who must have bestowed it on them. That the rule of the predecessor of Kulottunga I. was recognised even in Ceylon, which was then a province of the Chōlas, is proved by the inscriptions found in the island. From what has been said above, it would be seen that there was absolutely no need for any adoption from A.D. 1044 till the demise of Virarajendra. It may also be added that, there are no indications in Chōla inscriptions of the period A.D. 1040-1069 that Kulottunga I. was ever adopted for succession to the Chōla throne.
Now as to the contents of the inscription. Lines 1-13 form the preamble, lines 13-38, the document proper, and lines 39-48 furnish the boundaries of the lands comprised in the pallinilai and pallivilagam, while what follows is the concluding portion. In the preamble, two pallis, named Rajendrasōlapperumpalli and Rajarajapperumpalli, are mentioned as having been built by the king of Kadaram in Solakulavallipaṭṭanam in Paṭṭana-kurram, a subdivision of Geyamāņikka-valanādu. It is stated that the ambassadors of the king of Kaḍāram made the request that the Pallichchanda villages of these two may be entered in a copper-plate deed, the previous Kaniyalars removed and the lands vested with the Sangattar of the palli. The document proper enumerates only the Pallichchandas of Rajarajapperumpalli; and there is no mention of Rajendrasōlapperumpalli at all. We are not sure if the word Rajendrasolapperumpallikkum has been omitted after eḍuppitta in line 14. If it had been, the villages given must have belonged to both the pallis. In lines 16 and 38, this copper-plate document is said to have been issued in favour of the Sangattar of the palli erected by the king of Kadaram and in line 39 Rajarajapperumpalli, which must have been a shrine in the vihara, figures as the surname of failendraChudamanivarma-vihara itself. While this is the case here, the grant registered in the Tamil portion of the Larger Leiden Plates is said to have been made for the requirements of the palli in the Chuḍāmaṇivarma-vihara which was then being constructed at Nagapattanara in Paṭṭapakurram of Kshatriyasikhamani-valanādu by Chudamanivarman, the king of Kadaram' the Sanskrit portion, however, stating that "the Vihara was built by Maravijayõtt ungavarman in the name of his father Chudamanivarman". On account of the substitution of the names Sõjakulavallipaṭṭanam and Geyamanikka-valanaḍu in the Smaller set for Nagapattanam and Kshatriyasikhämani-valanādu of the Larger Leiden Plates, and also on account of the other differences noted above as regards the palli referred to in either set, a doubt may reasonably arise as to the identity of the donee in the two sets. But the fact that the village of Apaimangalam with its total extent of 97 vēli, 2 ma and odd and kāņikkadan 8943 kalam, which is exactly the grant made in the
18. I. I., Vol. III, No. 57.
2 No. 280 of the Madras Epigraphical Collection for 1917.
33. I. I. (Texts), Vol. VII, Nos. 854 and 884. In the later history of the Cholas the chiefs of the villages Sengepi and Adaiyur play an important part.
