Adi Shankaracharya & His Connection with Kanchipuram
A book By Sri A. Kuppuswami, B.A., B.T.

SRI SHANKARACHARYA AND HIS CONNECTION WITH KANCHIPURAM
By Sri A. Kuppuswami, B.A., B.T.

(1) A hamlet by name Surittil, on the border of Kudiyantandalam (known at present as Kundiyantandalam) situated about 9 miles off Kanchi, is referred to as ‘Shankaracharyapuram alias Suruttil’ in an inscription on the west wall of the rock, in the Varadarajasvami temple at Kanchipuram.   (Vide Annual Report on Epigraphy – 1919 -20 No.443 of 1919).

N.B.  A copper - plate inscription of Vira Narasimha Deva, King of Vijayanagar, of Saka year 1428 (1507 A.D.) mentions the grant of Kudiyantandalam of the Kacchinadu, to Mahadeva Sarasvati (of Kanchi SankjarAcharya Matha).  In the copper-plate it is stated that Kudiyantandalam is on the west of Surittil village.

(2) William Taylor gives a short summary of a copper plate inscription of Visnu-Kanci, in which the name of Shankaracharya appears among others as one who had something to do with the temple of Sri Varadaraja (Vide Volume -III pages 340,341, of the Catalogue of Oriental Manuscripts relating to Mackenzie's collections).

(3) There is a copper-plate inscription of 1111 A.D. recording a grant of the village of Ambikapuram to an Acharya of the Kanchi Shankaracharya Math by the Andhra Chola ruler Vijayaganda Gopala. It is to be noted that though the grant is to an Acharya who lived long after Sri Shankaracharya, the done is referred to only as Shankaracharya Guru' and not by the actual name of the Swami.

The pertinent lines of the copper plate are given below :