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South Indian Inscriptions |
EPIGRAPHIA INDICA No. 5 Araśanārāyaṇan Āḷappirandān Vīraśēkhara Kāḍavarāyan, son of Araśanārāyaṇan Kachchiyarāyan figures in two inscriptions of Kulōttuṅga III dated in the 9th1 and 13th2 years of reign. The name Vīraśēkhara, like Kulōttuṅgaśōla. Anapāya and Rājarāja, prefixed to Kāḍavarāyan, might indicate the name or surname of the chief’s Chōḷa overlord. And since we know that Vīraśēkhara Kāḍavarāyan figures only in inscriptions of Kulōttuṅga III, there is every possibility of Vīraśēkhara being the surname of this Chōḷa king. In this connection it is worth noting that a lithic record with the introduction vīramē taṇai found at Puttali in the Chingleput District, dated in the 2nd year of reign, actually gives Kulōttuṅga the surname Vīraśēkhara.[3] This king must, therefore, be Kulōttuṅga III and not Kulōttuṅga II as had been tentatively assumed in the Annual Report on South Indian Epigraphy for 1922-23. So far, we have noticed the inscriptions which mention the several members of the pedigree furnished in the two verse-inscriptions relating to the Kāḍava chiefs of Kūḍal. We may now consider who the other members of the family were. A record of Siddhaliṅgamaḍam[4] states that Ēliśaimōgan alias Jananātha Kachchiyarāyan was the son of Āḷappirandān Araśaṇārāyanan of Kūḍalūr. This record is dated in the 6th year of Tribhuvanachakravartin Vīrarājēndra, i.e., Kulōttuṅga III (A. D. 1183-4). Since we know that Araśanārāyaṇan Āḷappirandān of Kūḍalūr was No. 4, the younger son of Āṭkoḷḷi, it is clear that Jananātha Kachchiyarāyan must have been the lather’s son. As Vīraśēkhara Kāḍavarāyan was also a son of this Araśanārāyaṇan Āḷappirandān alias Kachchiyarāyan, it is evident that they were brothers. And since Jananātha Kachchiyarāyan figures in two inscriptions, one dated in the 3rd year of the reign of Kulōttuṅga III5 (A. D. 1181) and the other in the 8th year of Rājādhirāja II6 (A. D. 1171), he has to be regarded as the older of the two. There are also a few other records7 which mention him. From all these we learn that his full name was Kūḍalūr Araśanārayanan Ēliśaimōgan alias Jananātha Kachchiyarāyan. His dates range from A. D. 1171 to 1183-4.
Two inscriptions8 state that a certain Pallavāṇḍār alias Kāḍavarāyar also called Vīrar-Vīran Kāḍavarāyar, conquered Toṇḍaimaṇḍalam. In both of them he is stated to be the son of Āḷappirandān alias Kāḍavarāyar. But in one,9 the additional information that his father was also celled Ēliśaimōgan is furnished. The full name of the father of Pallavāṇḍār as obtained from the inscriptions is Kūḍal Āḷappirandān Ēliśaimōgan alias Kāḍavarāyan. As such, his identity with No. 3, the first son of Āṭkoḷḷi is assured. One of these records which comes from Atti10 in North Arcot District, states that Pallavāṇḍār killed a large number of his enemies at Śēvūr11 and created mountains of dead bodies and swelling rivers of blood. Another verse in the same epigraph adds that Toṇḍaimaṇḍalam conquered by Pallavāṇḍār included in it Peṇṇai-nāḍu and Vaḍa-Vēṅgaḍam. Other Kāḍava chiefs of Kūḍal known from inscriptions are (a) Maṇavāḷapperumāḷ and his son Kāḍavarāyar, (b) Mahārājasiṁha, the son of Jīyamahīpati and Śīlavatī, and (c) Kōpperuñjiṅga. There is not much is the names of these chiefs to admit of their identification with the members _______________________________
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