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TWO PANDYA INSCRIPTIONS FROM DINDIGUL
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regarding his deeds here are unfortunately lost. However, the Vēļvikkudi plates make up what the Perumbulli record lacks, for, they refer to Kulumbür as one of the battle fields where MāraVarman Rājasimha, the predecessor of Jatilavarman Parāntaka Neduñ-jadaiyan defeated the Pallava king and captured his countless huge elephants and horses. It may be noted here that the mention of the battle of Kulumbar in these records establishes indirectly the identity of Varaguna I with Jatilavarman Parantaka Neduñjadaiyan of the Vēļvikkudi plates and Jatila, son of Māravarman Räjasimha of the Madras Muscum plates. We thus see that four successive Pandya kings' down from Māravarman Rājasinha were served successively by four successive chiefs beginning with Pallivēļān. The identities established above may be conveniently set in a tabular form as shown below.
Si.
King
Rāmanāthapuram
inscription
* Perumbulli inscription
Remarks
No.
1 (Maravarman Rājasimha)
Pallivējāp; fought at Kulumbūr and fell (?)
Cf. Kadada Pallapagai-k Kufumburul taliya entriranda mal-kafirum ivuligalum pala kavarndum of the vēlvikkudi grant, above, Vol. XVII, p. 301, lines 77-78.
2 | Miran-Jadaiya (Jatila.
Varman Parāntaka Ne. duñjadaiyaa alias Varaguna I).
Parantaka-Ppallivēlän who carried out the ex. pedition against Idayai.
Parantaks.Ppallivēlān alias Nakkam-Pullan who accompanied Maran Jadaiyan in the campaign against Idavai in the Chola country. Pulla-Nakkan who com- pleted the building of a tatik called Pullan-eri undertaken by his father Nakkam-Pullan (mentioned above).
3
Chadaiya-Mäsar Srimira Srivallabhal
Andavēlan Kurumbar. cf. Ten-gamal-polir-Kus. Adittan Palla-Nakkan Trilum Singalathum Vi. whr rendered several | fifiatum ddada vagai Services to Chadaiya- tudi .. Kongalarpolir Marur at Vilinam, Ida- Kudamekkir por burit vai, Tirukkudamūkku. tu vand-edirnda Ganga.
Pallava-Ohtla-KalingaMagadhädigal....of the Larger Sinnamanur plates (SH1, Vol. II,
p. 456.) Pallivēján Nakkam.Pulcf. accounts in Calapan
lan, who served Varagu- ea, Chapters L and LI. pa-mahārāja, and the former's son. With reference to the former's services, Simhalarija Salagrāma, Ayirāvanam and Sennilam are mentioned.
4
Varaguņa-mahārājar (11)
To revert now to the donor Pallivēļān Nakkam-Pullan and his overlord, Varaguna-mahārāja, we have already noted that the king conferred a status befitting the chief in appreciation of the services that he rendered his liege. The very first act that Nakkam-Pullap did seems to have something to do with a Simhalarāja. The nature of this act is unfortunately not clear as the
1 Abovo, Vol. XVII, pp. 291 ff. ; Ind. Ant., Vol. XXII, pp. 57 ff.
• The pedigree of the Pandya kings as made out by the two inscriptions proves the correctness of the scheme suggested by Prof. Sastri in his Pandyan Kingdom, p. 40 ff.
