The Kailasamudayar temple at Cholamadevi was built by Rajaraja I and the place was called as ‘Thenkarai Brahmadeyam Sri Cholamadevi Chadurvedi Mangalam'. Here we find an interesting reference to Adi Sankara.
An inscription which belong to the period of Vira Rajendra Chola (1065 CE) is in the temple. The location of the inscription is near the place meant for Dakshinamurthy. This shows the further proof of the Adivaita tradition as the Dakshinamurthy Ashtaka is recited before the Sankara Bhashya.
The inscription goes like this
பாண்டிய குலாசனி வளநாட்டு பிரமதேயம்
ஶ்ரீசோழமாதேவி சதுருப்பேதி மங்கலத்து பெருங்குறி
சபையோம் திருமாதிரி நல்நூலை ஆழ்வார்
திருமுற்றத்து……..கூட்டம் குடைவரை கூடியிருந்து
பணிப்பணியால் பணிந்து பகவத் பாதீயம் சாரீரக
பாஷ்யத்துக்கு சிதானந்த பிடாரர் பண்ணின
ப்ரதிபாகம் ஆகிய வார்த்திகம் வக்கணிப்பாருக்கு
விருத்தியாக விட்ட நிலம்
What does this mean ?
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The Brahma Sutra Bhashyam of Adi Sankara is known as Sariraka Bhashya. This is what the inscription calls as Bhagavath Paadiyam Sariraka Bhashya There is one Chitananda Pidarar who wrote a Vartika on the Bhashya, named as pradhipakam.
Vartika refers to a text which details a original text like a treatise.
The Sabha of the Cholamadevi donated land for those who gave lectures (வக்கணிப்பார்க்கு) on the above Vartika at the temple

Now who is the Chidananda Pidarar ? Historians like Dr Nagasamy & Shri Krishnamurthy said, there was a peetathipathi of Kachi Sankara Matha during those days with the name Sri Chitsukanandendra Saraswathi and he is also known as Chidananda. Krishnamurthy also says that he has a book Chidananda Geetha wrote by the same Swami
(Pic courtesy @Ethirajans )

So it is clear that, a Peetathipathi of Kanchi Matha wrote a Vartika for the Sankara Bhashya and during the time of Virarajendra, a donation was given to those who gave discourses on the Vartika in Cholamadevi temple.
It is interesting that commoners of those days listened to such a highly philosophical courses !