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Account of Mamallaipur. 



[No. 30. 



J* I, Vishamu Kijavan, know this. 

 " I, Amur Nattu Velan, of Mamalleipuram, know this. 

 " I, Kuvaleikanni Maya Kijan Vichan, Warden of the Pilleiyar temple* 

 " know this. 



The inscription appears to be an ancient deed of sale, arid 

 its importance in this place depends on the means it affords 

 of obtaining some clue to the date at which it was made, and 

 which Dr. Babington hopes may yet be obtained from the 

 similar Varaha Swami Sasanum. That however given in the 

 commencement is only the andu, or year of the reign, of one 

 of the Chola Princes, the exact chronology of which dynasty is 

 yet to be ascertained. There is however another inscription, 

 of an ascertained date, at the neighbouring hamlet of Pava- 

 jackarans' Choultry, engraven on a stone under a large Pipal 

 tree, hear the steps on the south side of the Tank, the cha- 

 racters of which are precisely the same as those of the Sal- 

 vam Cuppana. rock arid the temple of Vara 1 ha Swami ; who ap- 

 pears moreover to have been the common divinity of all three 

 villages. It is as follows : (vide the original, in modern cha- 

 racters, marked B. 



" Prosperity ! at the holy time of the Makara Sankrama, on Wednesday, 

 " the 5th in the constellation of Uttiratadi, in the Brama yoga, in the Bala- 

 " vakarana, in the light fortnight of the month of Makara, in the cycle 

 "year Manmatha, and Saka year 1157, when Sriman Maha Rajadhi Raja 

 " Parameswara Sri Vira Pratapa Vikrama Deva Maharayer ruled over 

 " the earth, (on that occasion,) Tiruvengala Nayakar gave the piece of 

 " land surrounding the Mantapam, dedicated by Timmapa, for the halting 

 "place at the festivals ofPadiveta ofPerumal A.divaraha gnana Peran, the 

 " deity of [the three villages] of Punjeri, Tirupackadal, and Mahamallei- 

 " puram, extending over 1000 Velis of land, in the Vadakanadu,* of the 

 " Kottam of Amur, in the Victorious Chola mandalam, — This piece of land, 

 " and the salt pan in Kuttapakam, called Viraya Pambam, have been given 

 " so long as the moon endures for the Padiveta Tirunal of this deity. Ad- 

 " ditions may be made to this donation. May this charity be continued 

 " so long as the moon endures ! Let the hidden treasurers, waters, mine- 

 " rals, and every thing which the land or the salt pan contain within their 



* Northern District. 



