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TWO PANDYA INSCRIPTIONS FROM SALAIGRAMAM
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śrāvaṇam seydu1 and vilai-y-avanak-kalam or kali, (i.e. place of declaration of sale price), would support our derivation of āvanam.
A few words may now be said about the geographical names mentioned in the two inscriptions. Sāļaigramam, same as modern Salaigramam in the Paramagudi taluk of Ramnad District, the findspot of the inscriptions is stated in the records as being situated in Mayimakara-valanāḍu alias Tuvvür-kurram. Mayimakara might either be a title of the Pandya king Sadayamāraṇ of the record (A) or of one of his predecessors. Tuvvür-kürram in which Salaigramam is stated to have been situated may be the region around Tugavur in the Paramagudi taluk. In a number of late copperplate records of the Setupati chiefs of Ramnad the territorial division Tugavür-kurram finds mention and this name may have been a later form of Tuvvür-kürram of the Pandya inscriptions edited here. Nedurür may be identified with Nörür in the Paramagudi taluk. Tiruppalaiyur where Vira-Pandya was staying (B. lines 13-14) seems to be identical with Tiruppälaikudi in the Tiruvadanai taluk of the Ramnad District. I have not been able to locate Tirikkulungalur of record B (lines 16-7).
A. TEXT
1 Svasti ári[*] Kochchadai
2 ya-Märarkku yāṇḍu
3 2 idan edir=ām=an
4 du Mayimakara-va
5 laṇad ayina Tuv
6 vürk-kürrattut
7 tēvadāņa brahmade
8 yam Sāļaigrā
9 mattu Sri-Varaguna
10 ichchuvarattu Para
11 masvamigaļuk
12 ku dévadagam-i
13 rai surukkiyum
14 nir pāyavum Pe
15 rumānaḍigal Si
16 valluvadĕva
17 r sirimugam ku18 duttapadi Siri
19 Kuluva [y]ri
20 yāl Könō-in
21 mai-kondan Mayi
22 makara-val[u]nāt. 23.țu dēvadāna-brahmade
24 yam Sāļaigrāmat
25 tu sabhaiyarkku tan
26 gal-ür si-Varaguna-ich
27 chuvarattu-devar [ü]r
28 varamoli-yeriyum
18. I. I.; Vol. III, p. 105 and note 19.
8. I. I., Vol. VII, No. 96, text 1. 12, kalañjum-avanak-kaliy-arak-kondu°; of. in-nilam virruk-kuḍuitu kolvad-äna emmil isainda vilaip-porul murrum avapak-kaliye kiligaichchelak-kondu virruk-kuduttom of No. 458 of 1905 (text 11. 10-11) of the Mad. Ep. Coll.
C. P. Nos. 31, 33, 35, 36 and 37 of the An. Rep.on Indian Epigraph iy for 1946-47.
