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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
EPIGRAPHIA INDICA and drawbacks. There are numerous places called Iḍayātti, Iḍayāttimaṅgalam, Iḍiyāttūr, Iḍaiyār in Tanjore District and Iḍaiyār and Iḍaiyāttaṅkuḍi in Tiruchirappalli District, all of which are situated along the border land lying between the traditional (sometimes shifting) frontiers of the Chōḷa and the Pāṇḍya countries. Until all these places are explored, it is very difficult to locate Iḍavai beyond doubt for, the names of each one of these villages can be shortened to the identical form of Iḍavai. Viliñam has been identified with a fishing village of the same name in South Travancore.[1] Tirukkuḍamūkku is the well-known name of Kumbakōṇam in Tanjore District. The epithet Aṇḍavēḷān applied to Puḷḷa-Nakkan is evidently a shortened form of Aṇḍanāṭṭu-vēḷān and means the vēḷān of Aṇḍa-nāḍu. An idea of the spread of this territorial division may be had from inscriptions[2] copied from the area around Virupākshi, Periyakōṭṭai, Tēvattūr and Porulūr in the Palani Taluk, Madurai District which refer to these places as situated in Aṇḍa-nāḍu. Other places that are known to be included in Aṇḍa-nāḍu from inscriptions copied outside this area are Perumaṇalūr, Chellūr, Tirumāḍavanūr, Kuvalaiyasiṅganallūr alias Mēyūr Tiruppattūr, Perumūr and Tirutturutti.[2] Sāḷagrāmam may be identified with Sālaigrāmam of the Paramagudi Taluk in Ramanathapuram District in view of the fact that this village lies on the route which an army from Ceylon would have to take on its march towards or retreat from the Pāṇḍya capital. It may be noted here that the god of the place is called Varaguṇa-Īśvara in the inscriptions of Śaḍaiya Māran and Vīra-Pāṇḍya.[3] The village is called Sāḷaigrāmam in those inscriptions.
The Rāmanāthapuram inscription records that the gift lands lay in the two divisions (kūrru) of Paḷḷi-nāḍu. The village Perumbuḷḷi, referred to as Perumbaḷḷi in another inscription[4] on a rock lying on the bund of a large lake at the outskirts of the village perhaps lent the name Paḷḷi-nāḍu to the tract around it. Rāmanāthapuram Inscription TEXT
1 Śrī Kō Mārañ-Jaḍaiyanoḍu Śōla-nāṭṭ-Iḍavai yāt-
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[1] S. I. I., Vol. III, p. 130, note 7 and p. 450.
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