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No. 11.] TIRUPPUVANAM PLATES OF JATAVARMAN KULASEKHARA I.
The sub-divisions of Madurōdaya-valanäḍu and the villages situated in them are noted below:(1) Kañai-Irukkai which had in it Ulakkudi, Iruñchirai, Koṭṭakirti, Vēlāṇēri, Karpakirti and Irasinganallur.'
(2) Māḍakkuļakki! which had in it Koḍimangalam, Madurai, Siruvenkunram®.
(3) Vēlurkulakki), with Kundadevi-chaturvedimangalam."
(4) Rājasingankuļakki) which had in it Rājēndiram, Tiruppuvaņam, Ambalattāḍi-chaturvēdimangalam.10
(5) Karunīlakkuḍi-nāḍu which had in it Tiruttangal."
(6) Iḍaikkuḍi-nāḍu which had in it Melai-Seluvanur1 alias Satrubhayankaranallur.
(7) Venbula or Venbil-naḍu which had in it Kumārapavitra-chaturvedimangalam1 and Senkittirukkai-Idattuvali
(8) Purapparaļai-nāḍu which had in it Puttur,15 Kallikudi, Milaganur1 and Nirmaḍaiyur."" (9) Kallaga-nāḍu which must have had at least two sub-divisions as the name Ten Kallaganaḍu is applied to one of them which contained the villages Desipaṭṭaņam alias Vikramasolapuram (Vikramangalam), Sendanĕri-Kaṭṭikallür (Tenkarai) and Parakramapandiyapuram."
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It will be noted that four of the sub-divisions given in the Tiruppuvaṇam plates without mentioning the district to which they belonged were actually in Madurōdaya-valanādu. These are Maḍakkulakkil, Rajasingankulakkil, Purapparalai-näḍu and Kañai-Irukkai.
A word of explanation is necessary for treating as sub-divisions geographical terms ending in 'kulakkil', of which we have as many as four instances. In mentioning villages, inscriptions usually give first the district, then the sub-division and lastly the village. Districts generally have the suffix valanādu and the sub-divisions end in nadu. Sometimes in place of valanādu, the term kurram is employed; and if it had not any sub-divisions with distinct and different names, it is itself divided into two or more divisions according to the directions in which they lay, such as east, middle and west, north and south, etc. This is also the case even with regard to some
1 8. I. I., Vol. IV, No. 372.
Below, text-lines 108, 245, 246 and 250.
8. I. I., Vol. V, No. 446.
8. I. I., Vol. IV, No. 370.
Below, text-line 16.
No. 66 of the Madras Epigraphical Collection for 1916.
"No. 447 of the same collection for 1906.
Below, text-line, 92.
Below, text-line, 133.
10 8. I. I., Vol. VIII, No. 423.
11 No.574 of the Madras Epigraphical Collection for 1922.
12 No. 317 of the same for 1927-28. Tangal occurs as a village in the Pandya country in the Silappadigāram Canto XXIII, 1. 75.
13 No. 331 of the same collection for 1918.
14 Nos. 403 and 414 of the Madras Epigraphical Collection for 1914.
15 8. I. I., Vol. V, No. 302 and Vol. IV, No. 372.
1 Below, text-lines 106 and 111.
17 8. I. I., Vol. V, Nos. 302 and 431.
1 Nos. 613, 614 and 616 of the Madras Epigraphical Collection for 1926.
1 8. I. I., Vol. V, Nos. 294 and 298.
30 Ibid., No. 295.
