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SENDAMANGALAM INSCRIPTION OF MANAVALAPPERUMAL.
Kulõttunga-Chöļa III to the 11th year of Alagiyasiyar Köpperuñjingadēva (I). Probably 11 was the last regnal year of Kopperuăjingadova I, i.e., Mapavālap-perumal, because we know that he made an attempt to supplant the Chola power by imprisoning Rājarāja III at Sēndamangalam in A.D. 1232 and that Köpperuñjingadēva II came to the throne in A.D. 1243. He was & quasi independent chief roughly from the 37th year of Kulottunga-Chola III to A.D. 1232 when he assumed the role of an independent ruler and continued to be in power till the accession of his son in A.D. 1243. He assumed the title "Sakalabhuvanachchakravarttigal which was exclusively adopted in inscriptions by his son Kõpperuñjingadēva II. Some of his records are found at Vailūr, Chidambaram and Tiruvannamalai. Manavāļan-perumā), the signstory to the present record, may be identified with the chief himself in whose regime this inscription was issued.
Of the geographical names occurring in the record, Söndamangalam is identical with the village of the same name where the present inscription is found. Gedilam is the river that rises in the Kallakurchi taluk of the South Arcot District and flows into the Bay of Bengal under the ruined bastions of Fort St. David near Cuddalore in the same district.
TEXT, 1 Svasti' sri* (1) *Sakalabhuvapachcha[kkara]vattiga! Sri-Maņavāļan-perumal
Udaiyår[kku] 2 yandı anchāvadu Śēndamangalattu ùrum padaividu sely*]du U[daiyār] 3 [Vä]ạilaikar disuram-udaiya-Nāyaṇāraiyum elundaru?ap-pa[n]ni in-näyanarkku năm
kanda Eisaimõgap-sandikkum Puratttādi(Purattādi) tirun[āļu*]kkum tirinundāvilakku pattukkum Geţilattu[k]ku vada[k]ku kurukāl-vaļikku mēkku Mogapār
Māraṇārs nān. 4 [g-e]llaikku utpatta nañjai puñjai ullitta payiru marrum eppërpatta anaittayamum utpada
tirunāmattukkāni iraiyiliyāga tandöm[*] ippadikku Chandiradittavar sella ivür nângellaiyilum natta[t*]tilu[m] tiruchchūla-täpane[m)
1 This is No. 186 of 1938-37 of the Madras Epigraphical Collection. The relevant portion of the record roads :1. Svasti ért [ll] Sakalabuvapachchakkaravattigal Sri Ayaniklappirandär Köpperufjingadövarkku yandu
B-vadu .. 2. pavadu .
muppaduvattattu-kkaniadaiya tiveppiramane4. röm tittukkuhatta parikkvadu[lo] in-plynar köyil Tirubuvansviradova kku muppattēļa vadu mudal
Alagiyabiyar Körperuõjingadóvarkku padipopriva. 5. du varai 1-köyil nikki nilai kitam nellum adam mädum Aplivadu Tai(ymádattu Udaiyar Peruman
galam udaiyar Udaiya6. pperumalaya Katuvettigal kapakku kettu .
This record confirms the view expressed in the Madras Epigraphical Report as early as 1906 as to the existence of two chiefs of the name Kopporuñjingadēva. But Mr. 8. R. Balasubrahmanyam has laboured in vain to refuto this theory in the Journal of the Mactras University, Vol. IX, No. 3, pp. 293ff.
* Above, Vol. VII, p. 168. • Engraved in Grantha.
The letters Sabalabhu are in Grantha.
• The length of sd is indicated, undeocrearity, by 5 wocondary sign. It to poweible that the letter was intended to be engrared.
| SR No. | 032578 |
| Book Title | Epigraphia Indica Vol 24 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Hirananda Shastri |
| Publisher | Archaeological Survey of India |
| Publication Year | 1937 |
| Total Pages | 472 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 22 MB |