Ponniyin Selvan Varalaatru Peravai

vanakkam,

enna ithu, ippadi yarume posting seiyyalai. sari nane thodangaren.

nam PS-il padikkum pazhuvettraiyargalukkum, unmaiyil
vazhnthavargalukkum thodarbu ehtuveume kidaiyathu, enabthu nam
erkananve arinthathu.

varalatril pazhuvettaraiyarai patrik kanapadum sila kalvettu
seithigal:

A dynasty of chiefs known as the Paluvettaraiyar figures largely in
the inscriptions copied at Kila-Paaluvur and Mela-Paluvur in the
Tiruchchirappalli District. They seem to have held positions of
power and influence under the Cholas from the time of Parantaka I
and to have been related to the royal family by marriage.

We find it mentioned in A.R. No. 231 of 1926 dated in the 12th year
of Parantaka, that Paluvettaraiyar Kandan Amudanar fought, on behalf
of his Chola overlord, a victorious battle at Vellur against the
forces of the Pandya king and his Ceylonese ally, in which the
Pandya lost his life. To commemorate this success the Commander
Nakkan Sattan of Paradur made a gift of a perpetual lamp to the
temple of Tiruvalandurai-Mahadeva at Siru-Paluvur.

It is perhaps this Amudanar who is referred to in the Anbil Plates
of Sundara Chola as a Kerala prince whose daughter was married to
Parantaka I and bore him prince Arinjaya (Ep. Ind. Vol. XV, p. 50).

By `Kerala prince' should be meant a relation of the Chera king,
since we know that the Chera contemporary of Parantaka I was
Vijayaraghavadeva (A.R. No. 169 of 1912), the probable successor of
Sthanu-Ravi the friend and ally of Aditya I (S.I.I., Vol. III, No.
89). He must have taken service under the Chola like the Kerala
general Vellankumaran under prince Rajaditya (A.R. No. 739 of 1905),
and his help of Parantaka might have been situably recognized by the
king by the grant of chiefship over a large tract of land.
Tappildarma Pallavaraiyan to whom we were introduced on P. IV as the
perundaram of Arinjaya calls himself a Paluvettaraiyan.

A descendant of Kandan Amudanar – probably his son – was
Paluvettaraiyar Maravan Kandanar who finds prominent mention in the
records of Sundara-Chola and his successor Uttama-Chola. He is
represented in this volume by five inscriptions dated between the
10th and 13th years of the reign of the former.

Nos. 208, 215 and 344 state that with the permission of this chief,
the Nagarattar, the Todapatti-Chettigal and the authorities of the
two temples at Paluvur had it engraved on stone that the manrupadu
takes payable by them were to be on the same lines as at Nandipuram.

It is of interest to note here that the rules obtaining at
Nandipuram were regarded as model for some other villages also. An
instance of this is to be found in C.P. No. 10 of 1913-14 referred
to in para. 10 above, wherein Malavaraiyan Sundarasolan, the same as
Kolli-Malavan Orriyuran is stated to have ordered the adoption of
the rate prevailing at Nandipuram in collecting the taxes on house-
sites, etc., in his region.

No. 236 registers an assignment of 24 veli of land at Pasungulam on
permanent lease to a private individual with certain obligations to
the temple, under the orders of the same Paluvettaraiyar Maravan
Kandanar, thus reflecting the chief's high estate.



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