Pandya period inscriptions found in Sivaganga district

They are in Tamil and Vattezhuthu, belonging to 9th Century

Tamil and Vattezhuthu inscriptions, belonging to the late 9th Century period, have been found at a Vishnu temple in Velankudi village in Sivaganga district.

“The Tamil inscriptions belong to the period of early Pandyas. It could be the late 9th Century or the beginning of the 10th Century. The Tamil words are deeply engraved,” said P. Murugan, a research scholar of the Department of Archaeology, who found the inscriptions.

He said the beginning of the Tamil inscriptions was incomplete since the granite slab on which they were written had been broken to be paved on the floor of the temple. The inscription talks about ‘Poonguntra Naatu Poongunrathu Kaatanpalli Aivar’.