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Jaina Inscriptions in Tamilnadu
On the rock to the left of the painted cave.
Chōla
Parakeśarivarman
A.D. 11th century characters
Tamil
Records gift of gold for the daily offerings to pallialvar (Tirthankara) and for feeding one ascetic (aḍigal) in the palli on the Tirumalai hill at Vaigāvur in Pangalanaḍu, a sub-division of Palkungakkottam, by Virchevagan Piḍāran Büttugan and Vigchamanayakan Chandayan Ayiravan belonging respectively to Irumaḍisola-Karuna ḍagaKaduttalai and Madhurantaka KarunāḍagaKaḍuttalai, two regiments of the king.
ARE, 66/1907, SII, Vol. III, No. 97.
The two personal names Buttuga and Chandaya as also the names of the two regiments to which they belonged, suggest that the donors hailed from Karnataka. It becomes clear that the Jaina temple of Tirumalai was of widely acknowledged sanctity.
A. Chakravarti, op.cit., Appendix, I, No. 79, p. 197.
