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EIGHT INSCRIPTIONS OF KADAVARAYA CHIEFS Rājarāja III. It must be somewhere about this time, probably soon after the Tellaru battle, that Manavāļapperumal became king and reigned perhaps for a decade.
In the Tiruvëndipuram inscription we find the Chöļa or Hoysala version of a part of the success of the enemies of Peruñjinga. It was a single episode in a long struggle. In Manava! pperumal's time, Perusjinga must have put down Madhurantaka Pottapi-Chöļa Tikka, who, like Narasimha II, came to share the title of Chõlarājya-sthāpanācharya' in about A. D. 1232. T'ikka's successor became a subordinate of the all-powerful Kādava Kõpperuñjinga and a new enemy of the ally arose in Kakatiya Ganapati almost in the very year of the accession of Vijaya. gandagöpüla, i.e., A. D. 1249-50, and it was left to the Kādava to deal with him also. The success of his arms gave him the possession of the region further north of Kanchi as is clearly vouchsafed by Mahārājasinha's inscriptions in Tripurantakam and Dräkshärama. The politie Kādava set up prince Nilagangaraiyan to safeguard his own interest and that of his ally Vijaya. gandagõpāla.
Thus far we have noticed the inscriptions of Rājarāja III and his predecessors which speak of the ancestors of Kõpperuñjinga.
Now about the later members of the family. In editing the Tiruvēndipuram inscription, the late Dr. Hultzsch made out that Nilagangaraiyan was a son of Köpperuñjinga. There is u bilingual inscription dated in the 22nd year of the reign of Vijayagandagõpäls (A. D. 1272) found in the Aruļāļaperumal temple at Conjeeveram in which a chief styled Bhūpālanodbhava Nilaganganripa figures. The Tamil portion of the record calls him Puviyālappirandan Nilagangaraiyan of Amūr. The title Puvior Avani)yālappirandān and the place Amūr with which the chief is connected suggest that he may be a prince of the Kādava family of Kūdal; and the date is indicative of the fact of his having flourished in the time of Kõpperuñjinga. It seems likely that Avaniyāļappirandān Nilagangaraiyan whose son Alagiya Tiruchchirrambalamudaiyan Nilagangaraiyan and queen Nangai-Alvar are referred to in the 2nd and 27th years of the reign of Kopperuñjinga,' was the son of Köpperuñjinga.
A certain Pillaiyar Pañchanadivānan Nilagangaraiyan is referred to as the father of Arunagiripperumä] and as the husband of Perumā! Nāchchi and Solinga Nachchi in three other inseriptions dated in the 19th and 30th years of the reign of KÕpperuujinga and the 10th year of Vijayagandagõpăla. This Nilagangaraiyan has been identified with KÕpperuñjinga's son by the Jate Dr. Hultzsch. The additional epithet Panchanadivānan given to the chief in these records does not seem to be quite favourable to the identification. Though we cannot be positive as regards this chief being a Kādava, it seems that the association of the title Avani(Puvilyalappirandän and Amūr with Nilagangaraiyan is a better ground for determining him as the Kadava chief of Kūdal. In this connection, it may be useful to remember that a chief named Panchanadivānan Nilagangaraiyan, the protector of Kanchi (Conjeeveram) and Mallai (Mahābalipuram) figures as early as the reign of Kulõttunga 1,9 and probably was his subordinate: the region over which he had authority which is the same as that of Vēņāvudaiyān to be mentioned below, would be favourable for his inclusion in the family of the Kādavas of Kūdal.
Above, Vol. VII, p. 166. Pillaiyar Nilagangaraiyar himself, is mentioned in a record from Tiruvadisulam dated in the 14th year of Peruñjingadeva (No. 342 of 1908).
No. 41 of 1893. Nos. 505 and 518 of 1902. • Nu. 365 of 1919. No. 181 of 1894. No. 117 of 1912. * Above, Vol. VII, p. 166.
No. 25 of 1934-5. See also Nos, 415, 416 and 417 of 1898, XVI-1-11
