05-27-2007, 06:14 PM
Info from an inscription
"No. 235.
(A. R. No. 52 of 1929.)
Sivapuri, Tiruppattur Taluk, Ramanathapuram District.
On the north wall of the second prakara in the Svayam rakasa temple.
This inscription dated in the 15th year of the reign of Srivallabha registers a gift of land made by Arasu Madalaikkuttan alias Sivakarunalayan, a merchant of the Manigramam guild of Kodumbalur for providing pittu offering to the god Tiruttandoorisvaram-udaiyar.
The Manigramam guild of Kodumbalur is mentioned in an earlier record of the time of the Chola king Parakesarivarman from Salem. Aruviyur, a village near Sivapuri was a trading center and was called Desi-uyyavanda-pattam. Merchants from different localities must have colonized this settlement."
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"No. 235.
(A. R. No. 52 of 1929.)
Sivapuri, Tiruppattur Taluk, Ramanathapuram District.
On the north wall of the second prakara in the Svayam rakasa temple.
This inscription dated in the 15th year of the reign of Srivallabha registers a gift of land made by Arasu Madalaikkuttan alias Sivakarunalayan, a merchant of the Manigramam guild of Kodumbalur for providing pittu offering to the god Tiruttandoorisvaram-udaiyar.
The Manigramam guild of Kodumbalur is mentioned in an earlier record of the time of the Chola king Parakesarivarman from Salem. Aruviyur, a village near Sivapuri was a trading center and was called Desi-uyyavanda-pattam. Merchants from different localities must have colonized this settlement."
http://www.whatisindia.com/inscriptions/so...226_to_250.html