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We have seen .arli.r that the home of almost all the 4ryacaa..
vartins mentioned in the South Indian inscriptions could b.
traced to the P mnId district Although the titi. Of lryacakzavartin
seems to hay, gone out of us. in this region after about
the early part of the thirteenth century, we come across some
other titles, with the element ir ya, which were used ir ths
Remnaci and inneveUy districts in the thirteenth century and
later. One such title was Ayya, (irya), as in Ayya MaavarIya
Cc. thirteenth century) 2 and Ayya Nayi (A.D.l582) Another
was riyapperun occurring in an inscription from rT-villiputtt!r
in the Pamnad diatrict It is dated aka 1k82 (A.D.1560). About
the same time, a territorial division called Iriya-nIu) (rya
country) is mentioned in the inscriptions of Pnmad district
and of the adjoining district of Tinnev.11y. For instance, one
inscription from SrT-vilhiputt!r, in the Rrnad district, records
the gift of a pio of land in a village in 1riya-nIu But a
large number of inscriptions mentioning riya-nu are found in
1. See supra, p.4t3.
2. LE.R. for 1918, No. 428 of 1917; E.I., W, p. 72.
3. LLR. for 1918, No. 600 of 1917.
4. M.ER. for 1926/27, No. 531 of 1926.
5. Ibid., No. 524 of 1926.