South Indian Inscriptions

EPIGRAPHIA INDICA

in memory of a woman named Kaḷḷinaṅgai. The present name Kaḷḷaṅguṭṭai, i.e. ‘ the robber’s pond,’ is evidently a popular corruption of the original one. Kaḷḷinaṅgai had died at Aruṅgunram, a village in the modern Arcot tâluka.^[1] She was the daughter of the Gaṅga chief Attimallar (i.e. Hastimalla) alias Kannaradêva-Pṛithvigaṅgaraiyar. This chief was the son of Vayiri-Aḍiyan, the lord of Paṅgaḷa-nâḍu.^[2] Hence he seems to be different from the Gaṅga-Bâṇa chief Hastimalla alias Pṛithivîpati II., who was the son of Mârasiṁha.^[3] The word Kannaradêva, which is prefixed to the name of Pṛithvigaṅgaraiyar, characterises the latter as a subordinate of the conqueror Kṛishṇa III. His wife Kâmakkanâr bore the title Gaṅgamahâdêvî and was the daughter of Vâṇakôvaraiyar Orriyûr-Aḍiyan. Vâṇakôvaraiyar is known to have been the title of certain chiefs.^[4] Orriyûr-Aḍiyan means ‘ the devotee of the temple at Tiruvorriyûr.’^[5]

TEXT.

1 Svasti śrî [||*] Yâṇḍu iraṇḍu Śaka-varsham eṇṇûrr-elubatt-onru
2 śa(cha)kravartti Kannaradêva-Vallabhan^[6] Râjâdittarai erindu Toṇḍai-maṇḍalam pugun[da]-
3 [v=â]ṇḍu Paṅgaḷa-nâḍ-uḍaiya Vayiri-Aḍiyan maganâr Attimallar=âgiya Kannaradêva-Pṛi[thvi]gaṅga-
4 [raiyark]ku [Vâṇa]kôvaraiyar Orri[yû]r-Aḍiyan magaḷâr Kâ[mak]kanâr=âna Gaṅgamâdêviyâr vayirru[ṭ=pi]randu Aruṅgunrattir=[svargga]-
5 r=âyina Kaḷḷinaṅgaiyârkku=kka[ṇ]ḍa Kaḷ[ḷi]naṅgai-kuḷam [||]

TRANSLATION.

Hail ! Prosperity ! (In) the year two, the Śaka year eight-hundred and seventy-one, the year in which the emperor Kannaradêva-Vallabha, having pierced Râjâditya, entered the Toṇḍai-maṇḍalam,─ the Kaḷḷinaṅgai pond was constructed for (the merit of) Kaḷḷinaṅgaiyâr, who died at Aruṅgunram, having been born by Kâmakkanâr alias Gaṅgamâdêviyâr, the daughter of Vâṇakôvaraiyar Orriyûr-Aḍiyan, to Attimallar alias Kannaradêva-Pṛithvigaṅgaraiyar, the son of Vayiri-Aḍiyan, the lord of Paṅgaḷa-nâḍu.

D.- INSCRIPTION OF SAKA-SAMVAT 875.

This Tamil inscription (No. 346 of 1901) is engraved on the base of the ruined Îśvara temple at Śôlapuram. It is dated in Śaka-Saṁvat 875 (in words), while Hastimalla alias Kannaradêva-Pṛithivigaṅgaraiyar^[7]─ the same chief who was mentioned in C.─ was ruling the Kalleḍuppûr-maryâdâ. This may have been a subdivision of Paṅgaḷa-nâḍu, the lord of which his father is stated to have been (C. line 3) ; but I cannot find Kalleḍuppûr on the map.^[8]

The inscription records grants to the two temples of Nandikampîśvara and Guṇamâlai at Kâṭṭuttumbûr (i.e. Śôlapuram) by Hastimalla’s minister Puttaḍigaḷ alias Alivîna-Kaḷakaṇḍa-Pṛithvigaṅgaraiyan. The last portion of this name is evidently derived from that of his master ; kaḷakaṇḍa is the Tamil form of kalakaṇṭha, ‘ a kôkila ;’ alivîna means ‘devoid

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^[1] See above, Vol. IV. p. 271.
^[2] See p. 192 above.
^[3] South-Ind. Inscr. Vol. II. p. 380 f., and above, Vol. IV. p. 222 f.
^[4] See p. 139 above.
^[5] Above, Vol. V. p. 106 ; South-Ind. Inscr. Vol. II. p. 290, note 1, and Vol. III. p. 132.
^[6] The engraver seems to have written at first – Vallabhar, and then to have cancelled the r and added an n after it.
^[7] In line 9 he is called simply Pṛithvigaṅgaraiyar.
^[8] A village of the same name is referred to in South-Ind. Inscr. Vol. I. No. 83, line 5, No, 85 mentions a village of a slightly different name, viz. Kallaḍuppûr, which must be different from Kalleḍuppûr, because it belonged to Virpêḍu-nâḍu (see above, Vol. VI. p. 228 and note 5), a subdivision of Kâliyâr-kôṭṭam.