SII 12.202: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar No. 202. (A.R. No. 104 of 1921). MĒLPĀḌI, CHITTOOR TALUK AND DISTRICT. ON THE SOUTH WALL OF THE MAṆḌAPA (RIGHT OF ENTRANCE) IN FRONT OF THE CENTRAL SHRINE IN THE SŌMANĀTHĒŚVARA TEMPLE. author of digital edition Emmanuel Francis DHARMA Paris, CEIAS DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0202 DHARMAbase

This inscription of the 17th year registers a remission of a number of specified taxes on the village Marudampākkam for conducting a festival to the god Chōḷēndraśiṅgamuḍaiya-Nāyanār by Amarābharaṇar alias Śīyagaṇgaṉ, who calls himself ‘Lord of Kuvaḷālapura’, ‘descendant of the Gaṅga family’ and ‘lord of the Kāvērī and Nandigiri’. This chief appears to have been a subordinate of Kōpperuñjiṅgadēva and was probably identical with Amarābharaṇaṉ Śīyagaṅgaṉ, the patron of Pavaṇandi (Bhavanandi), the author of the Tamil Grammar Naṉṉūl, who figures in records of Kulōttuṅga-Chōḷa III, dated in the 27th and 34th years;S.I.I. Vol. III, No. 62. See also A.R. Nos. 10 of 1893, 116 of 1922 and 432 of 1928-29. but it has to be mentioned that the interval between the latter date and that of the present epigraph is nearly 48 years, unless we assign the present inscription to Kōpperuñjinga I. Śīyagaṅga was the son of Chōḷēndrasiṁha and was also known as Śiṟaimīṭṭa-perumāḷA.R. Nos. 88 of 1889 and 589 of 1919. and Uttamachōḷa-Gaṅga.A.R. Nos. 551 and 562 of 1906.

From an inscription at Mēlpāḍi itself we know that the ancient name of the Sōmanāthēśvara temple was ChōḷēndrasiṁhēśvaramS.I.I. Vol. III, pp. 22 and 29. and that it was constructed by Rājarāja I in the city of Vīra-Rājāśrayapuram, newly founded by him after cancelling the old surname of Mēṟpāḍi viz. Vīranārāyaṇapuram.A.R. No. 101 of 1921 and Ep. Rep. for 1921, p. 97.

The village Marudambākkam may be identified with the village of the same name in the Walajapet taluk of the North Arcot district.

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svasti śrī . cakalapuvanaccakkaravattikaḷ kopperuñ ciṅkatevarkku 10 7vatu śrīmaṟ kuvaḷālapuraparame śvaraṉ kaṅkakuloṟpavaṉ kāverivallavaṉ nan=ti kirinātaṉ ciyakaṅkar Olai . marutampākkattu Ūravar ka ṇṭu viṭai tantatāvatu . taṅkaḷ Ūr tevatāṉa tiruviṭaiyāṭṭa śrīpaṇṭārapātikku Antarāyappāti Uḷpaṭa Ūraṭaṅkil naṉcai puṉcai kaṭamaiyum śrīpaṇṭārappāti Uḷpaṭa veṭṭi taṉiyāḷ ciṟupāṭi kāval kaṇkāṇi Eṭuttukkoṭṭi Arimukkai kaṇakkamikuti Uḷ paṭṭa pala nellāyaṅkaḷum veṭṭip puṭavai mutaṟtaraṅ kāttikai kā cuvakai natkācu muḷḷaṭi Iṉavari Erimiṉpāṭṭam Ācuvikaḷperkkaṭamai Uḷḷiṭṭa pala kācukaṭamaiyum Accuttaṟi paṟaittaṟi cāliyattaṟi Uḷḷiṭṭa ta ṟikkaṭmai velippayaṟu tarappaṭi Arici tūṇi nilattiṟappukkaṭamai cekkukaṭamai perkkaṭamai Iruntuparimāṟuvār perkkaṭamaiyum ceṭṭikaḷ vāṇiyar perkkaṭamaiyum vālmañcāṭikkaṭamaiyum pālikkap pāṭṭamum paḻaṅku ṭi nikki putukkuṭiyāy Eṟikkoṇṭa maṉṟāṭikaḷ perkkaṭamaiyum po ṉvari veṇṭukoḷ nallerutu naṟkiṭā kāṇikkai kāttikaippaccai puṭavai māṭaiyum maṟṟum nām koḷḷum Eppeṟpaṭṭa Aṉaittuvari kaḷum Uḷpaṭa Ivvūr nāṟpāṟkellaikkum Uḷpaṭṭa melnokkiya maramum kiḻnokkiya kiṇaṟum Uṭpaṭa patiṉeḻāvatu cittirai mātam mutal coḷentiraciṅkamuṭaiya nāyanārt tirunāḷukku veṇṭuvaṉa vatukku veṭṭum Amarāparaṇarāṉa ciyakaṅkaṉ viṭṭeṉ

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