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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
EPIGRAPHIA INDICA corresponds to Wednesday, the 16th June A.D. 1316, which was the 21st day of the month of Mithuna ( Âni ) and on which the 11th tithi (of the dark half of Jyaishṭha) ended 17 h. 47 m. after mean sunrise.” The two villages granted by Muppiḍi were Paiyyûr, with the hamlets of Âyirachchêri and Gummiḍippûṇḍi, in the district of Paiyyûr-kôṭṭam, and Pondaipâkkam in Kachchiyûrnâḍu. According to Mr. Crole’s Manual of the Chingleput District (p. 438), Paiyyûrkôṭṭam formed part of the modern Ponnêri tâluka, and several villages which are stated to have been situated in that kôṭṭam have actually been traced in this tâluka.[1] Paiyyûr, the head-quarters of the district, is not found on the map, but its position is indicated by its hamlet Gummiḍippûṇḍi.[2] The whereabouts of Pondaipâkkam and Kachchiyûr-nâḍu are settled by a copper-plate grant of Veṅkaṭapati, dated Śaka-Saṁvat 1526, Krôdhin,[3] where both Podavâkam and Kachchûr are stated to have belonged to Kachchi-nâḍu, a subdivision of Îkkâṭṭu-kôṭṭam. According to the Chingleput Manual (p. 438), the district of Îkkâṭṭu-kôṭṭam corresponding to the modern Tiruvaḷḷûr tâluka and was subdivided into Kâkkaḷûr-nâḍu and Kachchi-nâḍu. Îkkâḍu, Kâkkaḷûr, and several other villages of Kâkkaḷûr-nâḍu, Kachchûr-nâḍu and Malaya-nâḍu in Îkkâṭṭu-kôṭṭam, which are mentioned in the British Museum plates of Sadâśivarâya, can still be traced on the maps of the Tiruvaḷḷûr tâluka and the Kâlahasti Zamîndârî.[4] Pondaipâkkam or Podavâkam is also found on the former map as Pondavâkkam,[5] and Kachchiyûr, Kachchi or Kachchûr, the head-quarters of the nâḍu to which this village belonged, is represented on the second map by Kachchûr, about one mile south of Pondavâkkam. The river Velkâ mentioned in line 4 is the Veḥkâ or Vêgavatî, which flows past the Aruḷâḷa-Perumâḷ temple.[6]
The chief interest of this inscription lies in the statement that, in June 1316 A.D., Conjeeveram was tributary to the Kâkatîya king Pratâparudra of Êkaśilânagarî, i.e. Warangal.[7] Another inscription of Pratâparudra is found as far south as the Jambukêśvar temple near Trichinopoly.[8] Three inscriptions of his at Bezvâḍa (No. 306 of 1892), Warangal (No. 109 of 1902) and Palivela (No. 501 of 1893) are dated in Śaka-Saṁvat 1220 (Vilambin), the Pramâdi-saṁvastara (i.e. Śaka-Saṁvat 1235), and Śaka-Saṁvat 1239 (Piṅgala). Who was the Mânavîra whom Pratâparudra’s general Muppiḍi installed as governor of Kâñchi ? An inscription of Śaka-Saṁvat 1219, Hêmalambin (= A.D. 1297-98), at Narasarâvupêṭa (No. 213 of 1892) states that Manma-Gaṇḍagôpâla, Râya-Gaṇḍagôpâla or Manuma-Gaṇḍagôpâladêva-Chôḍamahârâja, the eldest son of Nallesiddhi, was a subordinate of Pratâparudra[9] and took possession of Kâñchîpura.[10] An earlier chief of the same family, Vijaya-Gaṇḍagôpâladêva, was also connected with Conjeeveram, where three of his inscriptions, dated in Śaka-Saṁvat 1187, have been found.[11] Two records of the Aruḷâḷa-Perumâḷ temple (Nos. 34 and 35 of 1893), dated in Śaka-Saṁvat 1156 and 1127, belong to two other chiefs of the same family, Chôḷa-Tikka and Tammusiddhi.[12] Nallasiddhi, an uncle of Tammusiddhi, is stated to have occupied Kâñchi.[13] If it is borne in mind that several of these later Chôḷas __________________________ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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