Dear Friends, After finishing with most of the Pallava architectural sites, the next study should be done in their history and genealogy before moving on to next topic. I have written two articles while studying the inscriptions and making out their genealogy. Its not a new study as such, the idea is to reconstruct this on your own and then consult with the scholarly articles and find where you stand. The final part of this series is in progress. The articles are long, want to make these short but this vast information is very hard to be confined in a short article.
Excellent work saurabh. Request new members to go through the various links of copper plates given. That will help in understanding many things.
An interesting things. Last week i was reading this plate.
Inscription Velurpalaiyam Plates (SII, Vol II, Part V, No 98) Engraved By Nandivarman .
.Nandivarman, at the instance of Chola-maharaja Kumarankusa, granted the village of Tirukkattuppalli as devabhaga to the temple of Yajnesvara-Mahadeva at the village built by Cannakuri Yajnabhatta.
The Cholas were exiexistent small vasvassal Pallvas. We are getting one name before Vijayalaya. The other one (whose name we dont know) was Mangayarkkarasi Pandimadevi's father.
The thirukkattuppalli mentioned here is not the one near Thiruvaiyaru. It is in Puzhal Kottam, Gnyayiru nadu. Looks some one from Chola Country migrated to Puzhal, with a reference letter from Chola King ( see-he is refered as Maharaja. Even an opponent like Varaguna Pandya is always mentioned as Varaguna Maharaja in Pallava inscriptions)
I was thinking to check whether there is any temple near the Gnyayiru temple
Cholas were very weak and had split into two or three clans. One clan was with Urayur as capital was ruling over a small region. Cembiar Valavan of Kodumbalur clan had no son and he named his daughter 'Mangayarkarasi'. Kalki's Sivakamiyin Sabadam. chap 10. vol 4. Kalki is really remarkable. Sampath