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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
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Kanavadivayakkal and crossing the channel of Tiruvävaņam, and going northwards on the boundary, which is to the east of Velluṛkuruchchi and to the west of Tiruvavaņam, and descending into the Vaigai alias Śrīvallabhappērāru, (it lies to the east).
(Ll. 317-338) The northern boundary: Going eastwards along this Vaigai alias Srivallabhappērāru and getting up the northern bank of the channel carrying water to the tank of Paṇan. galur, then going eastwards along this bank and descending into (the river called) Kalavaļinā. dan-aru and going northwards along this river and reaching the road leading to Vembanguḍi from Iḍaikkaṭṭür and getting up the eastern bank, it lies to the south. Then going in a north. easterly direction along this road and crossing the channel which carries water from this Kalavalinaḍan-aru to the tank of Seyyakulattur, then going in a north-easterly direction along this road and getting up the bank of the tank of Adikarai, and then going in a north-westerly direction along this bank and reaching what forms the northern extremity of this tank and the southern boundary of Aykuḍi, it lies to the south. Then going eastwards along this boundary and reach. ing the northern entrance of the nattam of Velanguḍi and further on reaching the western extremity of the tank of this Velanguḍi, it lies to the south. Going from this in a north-easterly direction and reaching the western boundary of Kudañjadi, and then going in north and north-easterly directions along this boundary and reaching the kombu on the western extremity of the tank of Kuḍañjaḍi, it lies to the south. Going from this in a north-easterly direction and then in east and south-east directions on the nir-nakkal of the tank which forms the southern boundary of Sundankuruchchi and the northern boundary of this Kudañjadi, and crossing the channel which flows from the eastern extremity of this tank, and then going in a south-easterly direction and crossing the big road leading from Iḍaikkaṭṭur of Vēlür-Sirukudi to Vembangudi and then going eastwards, then going again eastwards on the agavay of Uḍaikulam, which is called by the names Käṭṭutteyvam and Piḍārikulam, and getting up the eastern extremity of this tank and going south-east, and then leaving to the right the dry lands ploughed by Semberuman, a neighbouring resident of Kiraṇurnāḍāļvāṇkōṭṭai, and going in east and south directions and crossing the road leading from Seyyakulattur to Vembanguḍi, then going eastwards and crossing the channel that was caused to be dug by Muttan Alvan alias Sundarapandiya-Mārāyaṇ for feeding the tanks of Seyyakulattur, then going east and north-east, and (afterwards) passing eastwards along the agavay of the Uḍaikulam of Mer-Chūrai and then going eastwards along the agavay of the tank of Kit-Chūrai and getting up the eastern extremity of this tank, the she-elephant stopped (having come to the place) where she originally started.
(Ll. 338-9) I wrote this charitable edict: this is the signature of puravuvari-kaņkāņi Araiyan Narayanan of Kaṭṭikuruchchi, (a resident) of the glorious Parantakanallur in Naduvirkürru, (a sub-division) of Milalai-kurram.
(L. 340) This is the signature of the puravuvari-kaņkāni Parantakan Tiruppuvaṇamuḍaiyan of Tandalai in Kil-kūrṛu, (a sub-division) of Milalai-kürram.
(L. 341) This is the signature of puravuvari-kaņkāni Karuṇākaradevan Purpavanamudai. yan of Perumaraṇur alias Palamandaladichchanallur in Alagiyapāṇḍiyakkuļakki].
(L. 342) This is the signature of Pillai Alvan Ponnambalakkuttan of Karuppur in Tirumapaippadi-nadu, the kapkapi of the tiredykkei Jayadhara-Pallavaraiyar.
No. 12.-TIRUPPUVANAM SUPPLEMENTARY PLATE.
By K. V. SUBRAHMANYA AIYER, B.A., COIMBATORE.
This is a single plate which bears writing on both the sides, the first having 17 lines and the second, 15 lines,
