South Indian Inscriptions

EPIGRAPHIA INDICA

constituted assembly of ūr, one of whose vyavasthās is available.^[1] Some of its suburbs are mentioned in a record from Tiruvadi.^[2]It had Eydanūr in it. Śōlakulavallinallūr must have been named after Śōlakulavalli, the queen of Kulōttuṅga I.^[3] Inscriptions of Eydanūr reveal that several temples existed in Śōlakulavallinallūr in the days of Kulōttuṅga I and numerous gifts and endowments were made to them, the majority of which came from the Chief of Eydanūr named Tiruvayindiran Vīraiyan Śēnan.^[4] The service referred to in Inscription III by the term Eydanārkaṭṭaḷai was most probably instituted by this Chief. The extent and boundaries of Vikramāśōlanallūr are specified in a record and from the descriptions it is clear that both Vikramaśōlanallūr and Tiruppērambalamponmēyndaperumāḷanallūr^[5] were contiguous to each other, having a common boundary.^[6]Śōlakulavallinallūr, of which Villiyanallūr^[7] and Vikramaśōlanallūr formed parts, may be identified with the modern Śōlavalli, a village in the Cuddalore Taluk. Eydanūr (mod. Eidanur) still bears the same name and is in the same taluk.8Tiruvayindirapuram is the modern Tiruvēndipuram in the Cuddalore Taluk. Ādhirājamaṅgalliyapuram in Kil-Āmūr-nāḍu in Rājarāja-vaḷanāḍu is Tiruvadi in the Cuddalore Taluk. It is 14 miles West by North of Cuddalore and one mile South of Panruti railway station.9 It is called Adigaimānagar in a hymn of Sundarmūrti-Nāyanār and Adiyaraiyamaṅgalam in a hymn of Appar. It is situated on the north bank of the Geḍilam. The Śiva temple in this village is called Vīraṭṭānēśvara and is associated with the life of Appar. It was here that the Pallava king Mahēndravarman I built the temple called Guṇabharavīchchuram.10Kūḍalūr in Peruganūrnāḍu may be Gūḍalūr in the Tirukōilūr Taluk. In this taluk there is a village called Periyanūr which may be identical with Peruganūr of the inscriptions. In the same taluk is Dēvanūr, a village two miles North by East of Tirukōilūr, Kil-Kumāramaṅgalam and Toruppāḍi are villages in the Cuddalore Taluk. Ānāṅgūr, 2 miles South-East of Villupuram, must have been the principal place in Ānāṅgūr-nāḍu. Tirunāvalūr is now called Tirunāmanallūr and is 19½ miles South-East of the Tirukōilūr Taluk.

Tirumunaippāḍi, in which Kūḍal the native place of the Kāḍavarāya chiefs was situated, is famous in Tamil Literature, as the country over which Naraśiṅga-Munaiyaraiyan, one among the Śaiva saints, had been ruling. He was an elder contemporary of Sundaramūrti-Nāyanār. Tirumunaippāḍi formed one of the biggest districts of Toṇḍaimaṇḍalam. It had in it several subdivisions such ad Kil-Āmūr-nāḍu,11 Mēl-Āmūr-nāḍu,12 Mērkā-nāḍu,13 Peruganūr-nāḍu,14

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^[1]S. I. I., Vol. VIII, No. 761.
^[2]Ibid., Vol. VIII, No. 315.
^[3]No. 39 of 1921 ; A. R., 1933-4, p. 34.
^[4] Nos. 141, 143 and 145 of 1933-4.
^[5] That the village Peruṅguḍi also bore this surname is learnt from a Tirukkalukkunram record (No. 134 of
1932-3).
^[6]S. I. I., Vol. VII, No. 774.
^[7] It was called Viḍēlviḍugu-chaturvēdimaṅgalam in the days of Rājarāja I (S. I. I., Vol. VIII, No. 748).
^[8] It is 10 miles North-West of Cuddalore (Sewell’s List of Antiquities, Vol. I, p. 211).
^[9]Ibid., p. 212.
^[10]Tirunāvukkaralupurāṇam, v. 140.
^[11] In Kil Āmūr were Tiruvadigaialias Ādhirājamaṅgalliyapuram (No. 384 of 1921), Kaṇichchampākkam
(No. 515 of 1921), Ānattūr alias Śiruveṇṇainallūr (No. 372 of 1909), Kaṇṇamaṅgalam, Māninallūr, Koṭṭiḷampākkam, Toruppāḍi (No. 45 of 1903), Śiruputtūr (No. 32 of 1903), Dēvanūr, Kīl-Kumāramaṅgalam, Śiruvāgār
(No. 46 of 1903), Kūḍal and Avanikarpagaviḷāgam (No. 45 of 1903). Ettāppanai was a southern hamlet of
Tiruvadigai (414 of 1921).
^[12] Kiliyūr was a village in it (No. 85 of 1935-6).
^[13] In it were Kūḍal (No. 133 of 1900 ; No. 67 of 1918 ; No. 123 of 1932-3), Tirumāṇikkuli and Vṛiddhāchalam.
^[14] 45 and 46 of 1903.