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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
EPIGRAPHIA INDICA The date is Monday, the day of Uttara in the second fortnight of Vaiśâkha during the sixteenth year of the reign of Vikrama-Chôḷadêva (v. 3).[1] This king bore the surnames Akalaṅka and Tyâgavârâkara (v. 1). According to Mr. Venkayya, the former is applied to Vikrama-Chôḷa in the Kulôttuṅga-Śôlan-ulâ, an unpublished Tamil poem composed in honour of Kulôttuṅga II., and Tyâgasamudra, with which Tyâgavârâkara is synonymous, occurs in the Vikkirama-Śôlan-ulâ[2] and in the Piṭhâpuram pillar inscription of Mallapadêva.[3] The inscription records that three persons assigned to the Śiva temple in the village of Râjasundari (v. 2) or Nṛipasundarî (v. 3) some land (v. 3) and a garden (v. 5). The village of Râjasundari is evidently identical with Śevilimêḍu, and the temple of Śiva, to which the grant was made, is the Kailâsanâtha temple[4] on which the inscription is engraved. Besides the subjoined inscription, six Tamil inscriptions have been copied in the same temple, the ancient name of which was Mûlasthâna. In three of them (Nos. 40-42 of 1900) the village is named Śevânamêḍu. It belonged to Virpêḍu-nâḍu[5] or Virpêṭṭu-nâḍu, a subdivision of Kâliyûr-kôṭṭam,[6] a district of Jayaṅgoṇḍa-Chôḷa-maṇḍalam, and bore the surname Nagarîśvara-chaturvêdimaṅgalam.
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