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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
EPIGRAPHIA INDICA EIGHT INSCRIPTIONS OF KADAVARAYA CHIEFS Aḷagiyaśīyar.[1] All these, therefore, make it certain that Peruñjiṅga and his father came in the line of Āṭkoḷḷiyār, the son of Vaḷandanār. The latest member mentioned in the pedigree is Vīraśēkhara Kāḍavarāyan and the inscriptions which mention him are dated in A. D. 1186, 1187, 1189 and 1191.[2] But there are inscriptions of A.D. 1171, 1181, and 1183-43which mention Jananātha Kachchiyarāyan,the elder brother of Vīraśēkharan Kāḍavarāyan and state that both were the sons of Araśanārāyaṇan Kachchiyarāyan. The genealogy provided by the verse-inscriptions omits the name Jananātha Kachchiyarāyan altogether though he was the elder of the two sons of Araśanārāyaṇan Kachchiyarāyan. The omission of the name is significant and the reason for the omission is not known Was he left without any issue ?
Vīraśēkhara Kāḍavarāyan’s successor was Maṇavāḷapperumāl. The earliest inscription which refers to him is Inscription No. VIII from Tiruvadi dated in the 13th year of the reign of Kulōttuṅga III (A. D. 1191) which is the last year so far known for Vīraśēkhara Kāḍavarāyan. It registers the gift of an ornament (ēkārallivaḍam) by Kūḍal Achalakulōttaman Āṭkoṇḍanāyakan Kāḍavarāyan. The title Achalakulōttaman shows that the chief is identical with Maṇavāḷapperumāḷ. The other records[4] which mention him are dated in A. D. 1195, 1206, 1207 and 1211, all falling in the reign of Kulōttuṅga III. In the first of them he is styled Kūḍal Ēliśaimōgan Maṇavāḷapperumāḷ Vāṇilaikaṇḍān alias Kāḍavarāyan.[5] Here the epithet Vāṇilaikaṇḍān applied to him indicates that while he was yet a subordinate of Kulōttuṅga III, he had achieved some military renown.[6] From the records of Kulōttuṅga III we learn that in or prior to A. D. 1197 corresponding to the 19th year of his reign,[7]he despatched matchless elephants, performed heroic deeds, prostrated to the ground the kings of the North, and entered Kāñchī, when (his) anger abated, and levied tribute from the whole of the northern region. In the second record[8] he is called Ēliśaimōgan Maṇavāḷapperumāḷalias Vāṇilaikaṇḍaperumāḷ alias Rājarāja Kāḍavarāyan of Kūḍal in Kīl-Āmūr, a subdivision of Tirumunaippāḍi. It is particularly worthy of note that he was styled Rājarāja Kāḍavarāyan even during the reign of Kulōttuṅga III. The third inscription[9] which is dated in the 29th year of the reign of Kulōttuṅga III calls him Kūḍal Achalakulōttaman Ēliśāimōgan Maṇavāḷapperumāḷalias V[āṇilaika]ṇḍa-perumāḷ alias Kāḍavarāyan. The date of the chief’s assumption of independence was certainly later than A. D. 1213, but how much later and how long he lived after that event ate questions on which direct information is not at present forthcoming. That he was the first to throw off the Chōḷa yoke, there could be no doubt,as it is proved by an inscription issued in his own reign. It has been shown that he had a valiant son in Kōpperuñjiṅga whose accession took place in A.D. 1242-3. If he did pass away long before A. D. 1242-3, there is no reason why Kōpperuñjiṅga did not assume regal powers earlier than A. D. 1242-3 and from the date of his father’s demise. That the Kūḍal chiefs had good cause to be dissatisfied with the Chōḷas, is clear from the terms of a compact recorded in an inscription of A. D. 1189 (No. 254 of 1919) ; but they had to bide their time for taking final action against the emperor who kept the various subordinate chieftains well balanced, even though _______________________________
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