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274 EPIGRAPHIA INDICA
[VOL. XXXII and drawbacks. There are numerous places called Idayātti, Idayāttimangalam, Idaiyattår, Idaiyar in Tanjore District and Idaiyar and Idaiyattankudi in Tiruchirappalli District, all of which are situated along the border land lying between the traditional (sometimes shifting) frontiers of the Chāļa and the Pandya countries. Until all these places are explored, it is very difficult to locate Idavai beyond doubt for, the names of each one of these villages can be shortened to the identical form of Idavai. Visiñam has been identified with a fishing village of the same name in South Travancore. Tirukkudamūkku is the well-known name of Kumbakonam in Tanjore District. The epithet Andavēļän applied to Pulla-Nakkan is evidently a shortened form of Andanáttu-vēļān and means the vēļāŋ of Anda-nādu. An idea of the spread of this territorial division may be had from inscriptions copied from the area around Virupakshi, Periyakottai, Tēvattür and Porulur in the Palani Taluk, Madurai District which refer to these places as situated in Anda-nadu. Other places that are known to be included in Anda-nādu from inscriptions copied outside this area are Perumaņalūr, Chellür, Tirumādavanūr, Kuvalaiyasinganallur alias Mēyür Tiruppattūr, Perumūr and Tirutturutti.
Sāļagrāmam may be identified with Sālaigrāmam of the Paramagudi Talukin Ramanathapuram District in view of the fact that this village lies on the route which an army from Ceylon would have to take on its march towards or retreat from the Pandya capital. It may be noted here that the god of the place is called Varaguna-Isvars in the inscriptions of Sadaiya Märan and Vira'Pandya.' The village is called Sāļaigrāmam in those inscriptions.
The Rāmanāthapuram inscription records that the gift lands lay in the two divisions (Küpru) nf Palli-nāļu. The village Perumbulli, referred to as Perumballi in another inscription on a rock lying on the bund of a large lake at the outskirts of the village perhaps lent the name Palli-nādu to the tract around it.
Ramanathapuram Inscription
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i Sri Ko Mārað-Jadaiyanodu Sola-nātt-Idavai yāt
2 tirai seyda Parāntaka-Ppallivēļān=āîna Nak
3 kam-Pullan-ran-pērāg=Pullan-ēri entu
4 kulam-ākki-kkap-ködi-kkumuli seyvittu=kkurai
5 ppani ninradu murru=pperuttan Pulla-Na
18. I. I., Vol. III, p. 130, note 7 and p. 450. * A. R. Ep., 1916, Nos. 678, 400 ; 1907, No. 95; above, XXV, p. 40; A. R. Ep., 1907, Nos. 502 and 507.
Above, XXVIII, pp. 85 ff. As one of the two inscriptions refers to a former grant of Sālaigramam to god Varaguniśvara by Perumánadigal Śivalluvadēvar. i.e. Srimára Srivallabha, it is rightly inferred that the god was named after Varaguna I, the father of Srimara Srivallabha.
4. R. Ep., 1956-57, App. B, No. 144. The inscription engraved in characters of the 9th or 10th century reads:
1 Perumbaļli-pperungulan-tidal
yalgal.arr .. Virabokharar po...
