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Madurai District
No. 239
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Māňkuļam
Madurai
Madurai
On a rock-cut bed in the hill locally called Kalugumalai.
Pandya
Neḍuňjeliyan
2nd
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1st centuries B.C.
179
Tamil, Brahmi
Dedication (to) Kaniynanta, (the) monk (living) yonder; this monastery (was) made (by) Catikan, (the) father (of) Ilañcațikan and brother-in-law (Salakan) (of) Neḍuňceliyan.
ARE, 460/1906,
I. Mahadevan, op. cit., Māñkuļam, No. 2, T. V. Mahalingam, op. cit., pp. 201-203.
This record mentions the names of the Pandya king Neḍuñcheliyan, his brother-inlaw Caţikan and his nephew Ilaňcațikan.