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Chidambarandr District
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No. 156
Village
Perunguļam
Taluk
Srivaikuņțam
District
Chidambaranár
Findspot
On the north and west walls of the Vişņu temple.
Dynasty
Pāņdya
King
Tribhuvana Chakravarti Konērinmai Kondan (Sundara Pandya II)
Date
15th regnal year (1253 A.D.)
Tamil
Language
and Script
Contents
(The purport of the record is to register the royal order granting remission of taxes on some lands endowed to the Vişnu temple).
It also refers to the exchange of a portion of land for a plot belonging to a Jaina
emple called Nikarakara-perumpaļļi in the village.
Reference
ARE, 243/1932-33.
Remarks
The existence of a Jaina temple at Perungulam is known from this record found in the Vişnu temple. But at present Jaina vestiges are not seen in the village.
