Manigramam

A manigramam is a large, influential guild of South Indian merchants. Tamil inscriptions record a tank construction by an important person and the tank is placed under the guard of the local Manigramam members.^[1]

On a Sivapuri temple wall, Tiruppattur Taluk, Ramanathapuram District, an inscription records the gift of some land by a merchant of the Manigramam guild for providing an offering to the temple deity.^[2][3]

During the rule of the Western Chalukyas dynasty reigning over most of the western deccan, South India, between the 10th and 12th centuries merchants formed influential guilds, of which manigramam was a prominent one.^[4]

See also

• Tamil Place Names in Malaysia
• Indian Malaysian
• Manigramam village in Nagai District

Notes

1. ^ "Early Tamil Cultural Influencesin South East Asia". http://www.tamilnation.org/heritage/earlyinfluence.htm. Retrieved 2007-02-03. ^{[dead link]}
2. ^ "South Indian Inscriptions, Volume XIV". http://www.whatisindia.com/inscriptions/south_indian_inscriptions/volume_14/stones_226_to_250.html. Retrieved 2007-02-03. 
3. ^ Hultzach, E. (1913). "Note on a Tamil Inscription in Siam". Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland Journal. 3rd Series Vols. 1 & 2. 
4. ^ Sastri (1955), p 299-300

References

• Nilakanta Sastri, K.A. (1955). A History of South India, OUP, New Delhi (Reprinted 2002) ISBN 0-19-560686-8.