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No. 43) TWO TAMIL INSCRIPTIONS FROM PUNGANUR
269 Since Anayiamman figures in B of Saka year [8819 (967 A.C.) which does not mention the ruling king and also in records of the 12th and 13th regnal years of Pärthivēndravarman, we have to take these regnal years as falling either before or after 967 A. C., and very probably after, because as stated above, there are inscriptions in this region dated in Saka 875, 878, 880 and 885. Further, Vira-Pandya whose head is claimed to have been taken by Pirthivöndravarman and Aditya II, ruled from 946-47 A. C. to 967, A. C. corresponding to his latest known regnal year 15+5th year." Vira-Pandya, therefore, must have been alive till 966-67 A.C. I have elsewhere shown that the 2nd regnal year of Aditya II with whom Parthivēndravarman has been sought to be identified must be placed after 959 A.C. from an examination of two records in one of which Irungoļakkon alias Pugalvipparagandaŋ figures in the Kali year 4060, i.e., 959 A.C. without mentioning any overlord, and in the other, dated in the 2nd regnal year of Parakēsarivarmaan 'who took the head of Vira-Pandva,' i.e., Aditya II. It will thus be seen that the accession date 956 A.C. given to Aditya II in The Colas has to be modified and that the theory of the contemporaneity of Pürthivēndravarman with Aditya II, which was doubted, gains in strength.
The family to which Ānaiyamman mentioned above belonged is called Ilåda? and Virata in inscriptions. Members of this family describe themselves as of the Solar race and claim descent from Sagara Virāta. In the 9th and 10th centuries A.C. we find this family wielding power in the region roughly comprising the present North Arcot District, having marriage alliances with the local chiefs of Pangala-nādu, the Biņas or Vänakövaraiyars and the Chöļa sovereigns. I have made an attempt to trace the history of this family in a paper entitled 'the Lāda Chiefs of the Tamil Country 'published in the Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, Seventh Session, Madras.
The genealogy of Iņaiyamman is given as follows in an inscription from Tirumalpuram," North Arcot District.
Gunaratnasindhu of the Solar race (and) of the family of Sagara Virāța.
Añigopa Kampadiga!
Tattā!ar
Anaiyamman Paramandalādittan Virāțarājan Anaiyamman was a feudatory of Parthivēndravarman. He is said to have built of stone the central shrine of the Siva temple at Srimälper and the enclosing mandapa, lo as also another mandapa in the Vishnu temple of the village. Further, he made a gift of land for providing water
1 Above, Vol. XXV, pp. 37-8
Ibid.
* Vide my paper on the Lūdas of the Tamil Country published in the Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, Seventh Session, p. 210.
No. 240 of the Madras Epigraphical Collection for 1916. .8. 1. I., Vol. III, p. 375-6. • Vol. I, p. 180.
* This has no connection with the country Lada through which Mahavira is supposed to have travelled (J.A.S.B. New Series, Vol. IV (1908), pp. 285-86 and J.A.H.R.S. Vol. II, p. 91) or Radha, i.e., West Bengal
. Pp. 203 ff. . Annual Report on Epigraphy, Madras, for 1907, para. 65. 10 Ibid. 11 No. 323 of the Madras Epigraphical Colloction for 1906.
