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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
EPIGRAPHIA INDICA
No. 18.- ARULALA-PERUMAL INSCRIPTION This inscription (No. 43 of 1893) is engraved on the west side of the base of the verandah surrounding the stone-platform called “the hill” (malai) in the Aruḷâḷa-Perumâḷ temple at Little Conjeeveram. The first six lines are fully preserved ; but of ll. 7-10 the beginnings are built in. The preserved portion contains seven verses in the Sanskṛit language and the Grantha alphabet. Verse 4 is followed by a prose passage in the Tamil alphabet and language, and another Tamil prose passage occurs between vv. 5 and 6.< Vv. 2-4 record that Muppiḍi, a general (nâyaka) of the Kâkatîya king Pratâparudra of Êkaśilânagarî, came to Kâñchî and installed a certain Mânavîra as governor of Kâñchî. The Tamil portion records that the same Muppiḍi-Nâyaka granted the revenue from two village to the Aruḷâḷa-Perumâḷ temple at Kâñchipuram. This revenue amounted to an annual sum of 1,002 “mâḍai of Gaṇḍagôpâla.” Of this, 240 mâḍai were set aside for paying the attendants of flower-garden on the southern bank of the Velkâ, which the donor had purchased for 500 paṇam from a certain Perumâḷ-tâdar;[1] 360 mâḍai for daily offerings, etc. ; 20 mâḍai for purificatory rites in Chaitra ; and 382 mâḍai for building. Those lines which are only partially preserved seem to have contained a list of gifts of ornaments and articles of worship (l. 6 f.), a list of buildings to be erected in the temple (l. 8), and a list of trees to be planted in the flower-garden (l. 9). The inscription ends with praises of Muppiḍi-Nâyaka. The inscription contains two dates, both of which fell into Śaka-Saṁvat 1238 (expired), the Nala-saṁvatsara, = A.D. 1316-17. On the first date Muppiḍi installed Mânavîra (verse 4), and on the second date he made his grant to the temple (line 3). Professor Kielhorn has favoured me with the following calculation of these two dates :─ “The first date regularly corresponds to Friday, the 11th June A.D. 1316, when the 5th tithi of the dark half in the solar month Śuchi (Mithuna) ended 7 h. 5 m. after mean sunrise. The second date regularly _________________________________ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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