NDLI: On the West Wall of the Brhannayaki Shrine: No. 61

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Description	This and the next inscription (No. 62) are engraved on the west wall of a shrine, which is situated on the north side of the large Nandi. No. 61 is dated on the 334th day of the 2nd year of the reign of a King, who styles himself Tribhuvanachakravartin Konerinmai-kondan. This is not a proper name, but a title which is applied to the then ruling King. The inscription records, that the King had built the shrine on which it is engraved, and which was called Ulagumurudum-udaiya-Nnchchiar, i.e., "the Goddess who owns the whole world," within the Rajarajesvara temple at Tanjavur, and that he presented to that shrine eleven veli of land in the village of Kottagarkkudi, alias Ulag-anda-nayaki-nallur. The second name, which means "the good village means an agricultural village of the Goddess who rules the world," was evidently bestowed on the village with reference to the Goddess, to whose shrine it was given. The four boundaries of the land which had been granted were to be marked with stones, on which a trident, the emblem of Siva, was engraved (paragraph 6). It has now been established than this inscription is that of one Vikrama pandya around 1400 CE, and this temple was built by him in the year 1400 CE.
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Subject Keyword	Dravidian Architecture Rajarajeswaram Chola Dynasty Shaivism Shaktism Great Living Chola Temples Iconography Vaishnavism Chola Emperor Rajaraja UNESCO World Heritage Site Tamil Architecture Tamizhism
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