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Pudukkottai District
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Contents
Defaced. Mentions Sri Namichandirar.
Reference
ARE, 298/1968-69.
Remarks
Seems to be the name of the Jaina monk, Nēmichandra. The stone containing the inscription should have been taken from some Jaina structure in the village.
No. 385
Village
Nārttāmalai
Taluk
Kufattur Pudukkottai
District
Findspot
On a rock to the north of the TirumalaiKadambar (Siva) temple.
Chola
Dynasty King
Kulottunga III
Date
27th regnal year (1204–1205 A.D.)
Tamil
Language
and Script
Contents
(Records gift of some land to the Kailā sanātha temple). It also states that the lands gifted to the Siva temple excluded the two må of land belonging to the Jaina temple of this village (Nārttāmalai). The presiding deity of the Jaina temple is called Arhadēva of Tirumārraimalai.
Reference
ARE, 360/1904, SII, Vol. XVII, No. 390, PSI., No. 158.
