SRI VAALEESHWARAR TEMPLE – VAALEEKANDAPURAM – PERAMBALUR - TAMILNADU HISTORY There are in total 134 inscriptions in this temple. Twenty inscriptions in the temple indicate that Valeekandapuram was a major commercial centre, during the medieval cholas. It had its own NAGARAM or commercial assembly of local merchants known as the Manigrammattar who were also war lords under the reign of the Chola King Aditya I.(871-907 CE) & King Parantaka I ( 907-955 CE). The temple also contains inscriptions of the great Raja Raja Chola I(947-1014 CE). During the reign of Rajaraja III (1216-1260) the Cholas took the help of two Hoysala generals to curtail the rebellion of a local chieftain. One of the inscriptions talk about the town being called Kandirapuram after a local chieftain Kandirako in 910 CE & subsequently became Valeekandapuram. Inside the compound, a small step welled pond and the Darbar hall on the northern side was built during the reign of King Krishna Konar in 1761,
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