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Inscriptions of Pandya period
February 24 , 2025
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- Epigraphists from the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has recently copied a set of three inscriptions found on the slopes of a hillock near Kambur in Melur taluk in Madurai district.
- These inscriptions date back to the period of Pandya King Maravarman Sundara Pandyan I, who ruled during the 13th century.
- The first inscription mentions the donation of a parcel of land by a local chieftain named Baskaran to a Shiva temple.
- The other two inscriptions have information about people of Kambur and another local chieftain named Thenna Gangadevan’s land donation for special pujas.
- These inscriptions also reveal that Kambur was once referred to as Kambavur and areas around Natham were called Dvarapathi Nadu.
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