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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
(VOL. XXIV.
The reign of Mayavarman Sundara-Pāņdya II lasted till at least A.D. 1252. There are several inscriptions of his dated in the regnal year 11+1+1st and the details given in one of these take us to A.D. 1251, June 14. But the latest regnal year is furnished in an inscription dated in the 15th year.
The geographical names that occur in the inscription are Kūdalūr and Kilai-Kūdalur in Murappu-nadu which together were constituted as a brahmaděya under the name Põsala-ViraSömidēva-chaturvedimangalam, Muttalankuruchchi alias Rajasingamangalam, Señalür alias Tiruvaranga-chaturvēdimangalam, Tanporunda-āru and Sundara-Pandiyan-Tennāru which formed the boundaries of the new village, and Pattina-Marudur in Sūrankudi-nādu to which the donor of a dévadāna belonged. Murappu-nādu is a village in the Srivaikuntam taluk of the Tinnevelly District, 6 miles east of Palamcottah, and is situated on the right bank of the river Tāmrapani. As the inscriptions in the Vēdanārāyana-Perumal temple of this village call the place by the name Sömidēva-chaturvēdimangalam or Põbala-Vira-Somidēva-chaturvēdimangalam and as it is stated to be a brahmadēya, there is no doubt about its identity with the place mentioned in our inscription as being newly constituted under that name out of the old villages Küdalur and Kilai-Kudalür. The name given to the deity of the temple in its inscriptions, viz., Somidēva-viņņagar-Alvār, suggests that it must have come into existence in the time of Māravarman Sundara-Pāņdya II and Vira-Sõmēsvara and called after the latter king just as the village itself was. Muttalankuruchchi still goes by the same name and is in the same taluk. PattinaMarudur and Sarankudi are zamindari villages in the Kovilpatti taluk of the same District. Tanporunda-āru is the name of the river Tämra parni.
TEXTS
1 Svasti tri [IN] Pu-malar-tirnvu[m] poru-Seyal(Jaya)-madandaiyunătămarai-kkuyi.
mulai-beya (jaya)-ppuyat[t-i]ruppa Veda-navil vell-idat-'tämarai-kkädel-mäda kavin-peraattitaifp]p ven-diraiy-udutta [ma]n-dini-[kidak]kai=ttiru-nila-madandaiyi
ufri]maiyir2 kalippa sumaisya]mum nidifyu]n=darumamun=talaippav=imaiyavar (villa-kko[diy-i)
dantorum=edup(pa)-kkarui-Kali-ka[na]l keda-kkadavul-vēdiyar a run-tolil-vēlvie chcben-kanal v alar[p]pa-chchurudiyun-Tamilun=tol-vaļan-kulava poru-tiral-ali pū-talañ=chūlal oru-kaiy=i
1 No. 147 of 1894.
* No. 421 of 8. I. I., Vol. V. Sewell's List of Antiquities, Vol. I, p. 313.
«See Nos. 431 to 435 of the Madras Epigraphical collection for 1906 and the Annual Report on Epigraphy, Madras, for 1907, Part II, paragraphs 26 and 27. In the alphabetical list of villages of the Tinnevelly District two villages are noted bearing the names Murappu-nadu-Köyilpattu and Murappa-nadu-pudugramam.
No. 448 of S. I. I., Vol. V (No. 156 of the Madras Epigraphical collection for 1894). For obtaining the berrect original of the introductory portion, I have compared the text of this inscription with the readings of two other inscriptions, viz., Nos. 421 and 446 of the same Volume and noted in footnotes the differences. Whenever these numbers occur in subsequent notes they must be taken to refer to 8. 1. I., Vol. V.
Read malar-fl'urun. All the three inscriptions have r which is incorrect. * Read -fa.narai. .8L-vara in the reading in both 421 and 446. Though hila is not incorrect, fül-vara is better.
