Temples in and around Madurantakam
by B. Mekala | 2016 | 71,416 words
This essay studies the Temples found around Madurantakam, a town and municipality in Kancheepuram (Kanchipuram) District in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Madurantakam is one of the sacred holy places visited by Saint Ramanuja. It is also a region blessed with many renowned temples which, even though dating to at least the 10th century, yet they c...
Tiruvenkateswarar Temple—Kadapperi
The village Kadapperi is situated in Madhurantakam Taluk and Kanchipuram District. It is 1km from Madhurantakam.
Name study of the Village
In the lithic record of Rajakesarivarman alias Chakravartin Kulottunga Choladeva dated in the thirty third regnal year, the village is identified as Madurantaka-Chaturvedimangalam, an independent village of Kalattur Kottam in Jayangondasolamandalam.[1]
The Chola king Parakesarivarman alias Tribhuvanachakravartin Rajaraja -II lithic record dated in his ninth regnal year, the name of the village was mentioned as Madhurantaka-Chaturvedimangalam an independent village of Kalattur Kottam.[2] His another sixteenth regnal year lithic record, the name of the village was mentioned as Madhurantaka-Chaturvedimangalam an independent village of Jayangondasolamandalam.[3]
Madurantaka was the one of the title of Chola king Parantaka I, it is inferred that the village was donated as chaturvedimangalam by Parantaka I, it was named after him as Madurantaka-Chaturvedimangalam.[4] It is also surmised that as the earliest inscription of the temple belongs to Parantaka II Sundara Chola whose name is also called as Madurantaka Sundara Chola, the village was named after him.[5]
At present the village is called as Kadapperi. The name of the village has different views one is that the once the village had serves as a market place with large number of stalls (i.e., Kadai in Tamil) so it was called as ‘kadaivithi’ later it is transmigrated and came to be known as Kadapperi.[6] Another view is, in ancient period there was a practice of having beaten durms (murasu) before going to war. The name Kadapperi is split into Kada+ Peri, whereas Kada means last or end, peri means murasu, as Kadapperi is the last village where the practice of beating murasu came to an end, so the village is called as Kadapperi.[7]
Footnotes and references:
[1]:
A.R.E.,404 of 1922.
[2]:
A.R.E.,399 of 1922.
[3]:
A.R.E.,393 of 1922.
[4]:
A.R.E., 735 of 1905; Sethupillai, Ra.P., Thamilakam Urum Perum (Tamil), Chennai 2008, pp.115-116.
[5]:
A.R.E.,396 of 1922.
[7]:
Interview with Mahesh, Temple Priest, at Kadapperi dated on 22 March 2016.