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Chera race and Lord of Takața (TagaŅūr). He was the son of Rājaraja and descendant of Yavanika, king of Keraļa or Eaļini, king of Vanji. Records the repair of the images of a Yakṣa and Yakși, the presentation of a gong and the construction of a channel.
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P. 108. Arcot North Dist. Walajapet taluk.
631. Panchapāņdavamalai (near Arcot) also called Tiruppānmalai :
(Tamil) On a boulder. A record in the 50th year of the Pallava king Nandipottaraśar, saying that the images of a Yakși named Ponniyakkiyar and a saint Nāganandin which are preserved to the prese day were cut out of the rock by Nāraṇan, the son of Maruttuvar of Pugalālaimangalam. Yakşas and Yaksis were guardian deities of Jain temples see Des. Cat. Sans. Mss. XVI. pp. 6367-8 for a work on their method of worship.
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P. 115. Arcot North Dt. Wandiwash taluk. · Melpādi: This place, 6 miles north of Tiruvallam, figures in the Karkād plates of the Rāştrakūta Krişņa III as the place of his encampment in 959 and is thus ancient. According to tradition its ancient temple was Jain but made Saivite by the Devāram saints
P. 119. Arcot North Dist. Wandiwash tātuk.
708. Telláru : (Tamil) See North Arcot Manual, II. P. 445 which refers to the local mud fort of Nanda Rāja and Jains.
Pp. 119-20. Arcot North Dist. Wandiwash tāluk. Vallimalai (near Tiruvallam): The following epigraphs show the importance of this place as a Jain centre. The tradition connecting it with Valli and God Subrahmanya of Tiruttanigai is of later origin.
710. Rock inscription in a Jain cave on the hill. A record of the Ganga king, Rajamalla (I), the son of Raņavikrama, grandson of Sripurtshã (725-776), and great-grandson of Sivamāra (1, 679-719 circa). Rijamalla was the excavator of the cave,
