Ancient Royal Title Names of Arayars

Arayan, Araya, Arayar, Aryan, Arya, Aryar, Araiyan, Araiyar, Ariyar, Ariyan, Arasa, Arasu, Arasi, Arasar,Arasan, Adi Arayan,

Raya, Rayar, Raju, Rasa, Racha,

Mutharasu, Mutharasar,  Mutharasan, Mutharayar/Mutharayan/Adi Arayan, Adi Mutharayar/Adi mutharayan.

Pallavarayar/Pallavarayan, Malla, Pazhuvettarayar(A Chera branch)

Varman

Chola Mutharayan/Chola Mutharayar.

Sree Buddha was referred as “Arayar” in ancient Tamil literature.
One of the names of pallava king was Buddha varman. It clearly indicates that the Arayars and Pallavas were one and the same race.

(Pallava dynasty was originated by Ilantharayan, grandson of Maharaja Karikala Cholan.)

Some of the inscriptions which reveal the relation between Arayars and pallavas collected by Madras presidency College are given below.

TINNEVELLY DISTRICT. 

AMBASAMUDRAM TALUK. 

Adaichchani. 

1. 5560/1911. (Tamil.) On a stone lying near the sluice on 
the tank. Records in S. 1539 and K.A. 792, Nala, gift of certain 
privileges in respect of tanks and ponds to the residents of Adaich- 
chani, by Sinna-Tipparahuttaraiyan, for the merit of Muttu- 
vlrappa-Nayakkar of Madura (1609 23). 

Ambasamudram Taluk.
100. 5400/1911. (Tamil.) On the north wall of the second 
prakara of the same temple. A damaged record, dated fifteenth 
year. Registers that a piece of land granted for a garden was 
made tax-free at the request of Kalirigarayan. Mentions Arich- 
chandiran alias Pallavarayan of Seluvattur in Tirukkanapper- 
kurram. See No. 101. [This and the next two inscriptions are 
examples of " double transactions," i.e., the king grants certain 
lands tax-free and then the temple authorities have the charter 
engraved by the villagers and the remitted tax deducted from the 
village accounts (L/JT^-Q;//?).]

 101. 541 0/1911. (Tamil.) On the same wall. Records in the 
fourteenth year of the Pandya king Vlra-Pandyadeva the gift 
registered in No. 100 and mentions Arichchandiran alias Palla- 
varayan of Seluvattur. [The king was evidently Jatavarman 

1504 TINNEVELLY DISTRICT

temples of Polinjininrarujiya-Paramasvami and Tirunadudaiya-
piran at Tirunagari in Tiruva.Uidi-valanadui

516. 468 of 1909. (Tamil.) On the same wall. A record of
the fifteenth year of the Pandya king Maravarman alias Tribhu-
vanachakravartin Sundara-Pandyadeva (II?, 1239 51). Records
that Araiyan Viradamudichchan alias Pallavarayar of Chakra-
paninallQr in Sevvirukkainadu built the mantapa and set up the
image of Varaha-Nayanar.

517. 4690/1909. (Tamil.) On the same wall. Dated in the
twelfth year of the Pandya king Maravarman alias Tribhuvana-
chakravartin Sundara-Pandyadeva (I, 1216 35). Records gift of
land at Perurigulam alias Uttama-Pandyanallur, with the sanction of
Malavarayan, for a festival founded in the temple at Tirukkurugur
by Araiyan Puvan alias Venavudaiyan, in the name of Araiyan
TirunSdadaiyan alias Nllagarigaraiyan of Kll.ai-Kodumalur in
Vadatalai Sembi-nadu. Mentions the palace at MadakkulakkiJ-
Madurai and the seat, Malavarayan.

360. 317 0/I9I4- (Tamil.) On the west wall of the Briha- 
damba shrine in the same temple. Dated in the reign of the 
Vijayanagara king Achyutadeva-Maharaya. Records in . 1453, 
Nandana, Dhanus, su. di. II, Friday, Revati, a gift of land for a 
matha situated in the bazaar called Vallanadu-perunderu in the 
village Ararigulanadar-tiruppadaivTdu. An irregular date. See 
Ep. Rep., 1915, p. 80. 

361. 3180/1914. (Tamil.) On the north and west walls of 
the same shrine. A record of the Vijayanagara king Achyutadeva 
Maharaya in S. 1452, Vikriti. Records that the residents of 
Valla-nadu in Rajarajavalanadu gave certain lands as kaniyatchi 
to Sokkanar Pallavarayar, a native of Padaiparru in Kana-nadu 
which was a subdivision of Kana-nadu alias Virudarajabhayari- 
kara-valanadu.