Extracts from the Book A Topographical List of Inscriptions collected till 1915 by VV Rangacharya.
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Alambakkam.
This is an ancient and important place the history of which is easily deduced from its ancient inscriptions. It evidently came into existence in the time of Dantivarman of the Pallava dynasty as it has been called Dantivarma-marigalam and as the local deity was known after the same king. Later on it was named Madhurantakachaturvedimarigalam by the Chola king Madhuran- taka, while its suburb came to be called Gandaradityachaturvedi- marigalam after Gandaraditya. The local tanks and temples go back to times anterior to Rajaraja L
302. 704 0/1909. (Tamil.) On the north wall of the central shrine in the Selliyamman temple. Built in at the beginning. Records that the temple of Pidari was built by a certain Irayar Alarikarapriyan alias Tiru-OrriyGran and seems to register a gift of land for offerings.
303. 7050/1909. (Tamil.) On the same wall. A damaged record of the Chola king Rajakesarivarman, dated in his twenty- fifth year. Seems to record a gift of land to the temple of Sapta- matrikas by the assembly of Dantivarmamarigalam. [The Govern- ment Epigraphist notes that this is the earliest epigraphical record which mentions a temple dedicated to the seven mothers.]
304. 706 of 1909. (Tamil.) On the west and south walls of the same shrine. A damaged record of the Chola king Rajakesa- rivarman alias Udaiyar SrI-Rajadhirajadeva (I ?), dated in his thirty- first year. Refers to the assembly of Madhurantakachaturvedi- marigalam, a brahmadeya in Poygainadu, a subdivision of Rajen- drasiriga-val.anadu and records a gift of land by it to the temple of
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Saptamatrikas. [See Nos. 323 and 324 below for the chartges in the names of the political divisions in the time of Vikrama Chola.]
305. 707 of 1909. (Tamil.) On the north wall of the Ayyanar temple in the same village. A fragmentary record of the Chola king Rajarajakesarivarman (985 1013), dated in his ninth year. Mentions Gandaraditya-chaturvedimarigalam, a brahmadeya on the northern bank of the Kaveri, and its hamlet SirumaruvGr.