Book Title: Jaina Inscriptions in Tamilnadu
Author(s): A Ekambarnathan, C K Sivprakasham
Publisher: Research Foundation for Jainology Chennai
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Jaina Inscriptions in Tamilnadu
Maganjaḍaiyan
43rd regnal year (799 A.D.)
Tamil, Vatteluttu
Registers a gift of land by Irambaṭṭuvēļān-Sattan as pallichchandam to the temple of Aruvalattu Bhataraka of Tiruviruttalai in Naṭṭāgruppōkku.
A Tamil verse at the end, composed by the donor himself, contains an exhortation to all to offer worship to the Arhan on the hill.
ARE, 605/1915, SII, Vol. XIV, No. 41.
K. V. Ramesh gives the following details. Lines 12, 17 and 18 of this inscription mention pappacanṛar of Kilccēri in Nāṭṭukkurumbu as the protectors and executers of the grant. It appears that the learned brahmaņas (pārppar) of Kilccēri were entrusted with the task of managing this grant made to a Jaina deity.
In the verse occurring in lines 22-26, the donor eulogises the Arhat as 'one with. out end' (antam-il), as the 'source of many qualities' (palguṇattadi) and as the healer of voes (iḍar-tirkkum). A. Chakravarti, Jaina literature in Tamil, (ed. K.V. Ramesh), Notes p. 153.
