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No. 11.) TIRUPPUVANAM PLATES OF JATAVARMAN KULASEKHARA I.
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evidence to the fact that the territory over which Irungovēl-chiefs ruled was called Könädul and that its capital was Kodumbäļür. The question reduces itself to this Could Muttūrru-kurram have been included in or was even adjacent to Könādu?'. Köņādu is situated in the modern Pudukkottai State. A geographical analysis of the inscriptions of that State will show that Könādu and its several divisions and sub-divisions occupied the whole of the Kuļattur Taluk and the northern portion of the Tirumeyyam Taluk. The southern part of the Tirumeyyam Taluk which is the southernmost part of the Pudukkottai State, had in it another ancient district called Käna-nādu and this Käna-nadu is stated to be a division of Pāņdimandalam. It was contiguous to Keralasinga-valanādu. So tben, between Könadu which is reputed to be the territory of Irungovēl chiefs and Muttūrru-kurram, there lay the two ancient districts of Keralasinga-valanādu and Käna-nadu, both belonging to Pandimandalam. This analysis will convincingly establish that the distant Muttūrru-kūfram which we have located in the north-eastern part of the Tiruvādāņai Taluk of the Rämnad District could never have been included in or was contiguous to Köņādu, the territory over which Irungovēl held sway, intercepted as it was by two other districts of the Pandya country.
Geographical analysis of the inscriptions of the Pudukkottai State.. KONAPU(a) Aņņalvāyil-kūgram :- Irumbāļi, Madinūr, Telingakulakālapuram (in Ten-Köņādu) alias
Kulöttungabőlapattiņam and Visalūr,--all in Kulattür Taluk. (6) Kūdalür-nādu :-Panaiyurkulam, Sēvalūr, Sirraiyur,--all in Tirumeyyam Taluk. (c) Kunriyūr or Kunrisül-nadu-Kalanivāśal, Mēl-Manalür, Parambaiyür, Punnangudi,
Sikhānallür, Tirunalakkunram,-all in the Kulattür Taluk. (d) Ollaiyūr-kūrram :-Ankudi alias Amanallür, Idaiyārtür, Karaiyür, Kija-Taniyal,
Korrayür, alias Uttamasőlapuram, Neriñjikkudi, Ollaiyür alias Madurai, Ollaiyūrmangalam (Oliyamangalam), Rājēndrasolapuram, Sättanür, Sundarabölapuram alias Dēsiyuga dapattinam (Sundaram), and Vintükki alias Räjāndrabőlapuram,
all in Tirumeyyam Taluk. (e) Urattūr-kurram (Vada-Könādu) :- Alattūr, Kodumbälür, Kulai-kulattür, Mēnelvēli,
Nirpalani, Payyūr, Pudukkudi, Särapattanam alias Vikramasőlapperunderu and
Tiruviraiyankudi (Tiruviļānguļi),- all in the Kulattür Taluk. (1) Vada Siruvāyil-nādu in (e) : Ilañjāvur, Kiranūr, Kumāramangalam-all in the
Kulattur Taluk. (g) Vayalaga-nādu :-Pulvayal and Vayalagam. Both are in Kulattur Taluk. KINANĀDU(a) Kana-nadu:- Ādanür, Andanúr, Kottaiyūr, Malayaköyil, Mélür, Muniyandai, Pēraiyur,
Perundurai, Peruńkaraikkudi, alias Tiruvaranguļanallür, Pulivalam, Solapandiyapuram, Ten-Kättür, Tirumeyyam, Tulaiyānilai, Viraiyachchilai. These villages
are in Tirumeyyam Taluk. 1 One of the earliest sovereigns of Könādu celebrated in Tamil literature is the renowned Saiva devotee Idangali-Nayanár, of whom it is said that he was the head of the Vēļir family, ruled from Kodumbafür and was a lineal descendant of Aditys (v. 2 of Idangali-Nayanar Puranam). The Müvarköyil inscription of Kodumbālor, besides testifying to the antiquity of this Vēl family, records the part played by some of the members in the history of South India (Annual Report on Epigraphy, Madras, for 1908, p. 87).
Kodumbai (Kodum bālür) lay on the way to the Pandya country from the Chola territory (Silappadiledram, Kadukankadai, 1. 71).
Tirumeyyam in Käņa-nādu has one of the eighteen famous Vaishnave temples of the Pandya country. This also shows that Käņa nādu was in the Pandya territory.
