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South Indian Inscriptions

 
319

Do.,     same wall

Pāṇḍya

Māravarman Kulaśēkhara

Year 30, Māśi. 6

Do.

Records an undertaking by the residents of the tirunāmattukkāṇi village of Paḷḷikoṇḍān-tiruvaḍikkuraiyūr to remit paddy and cash at specified rates into the temple treasury for offerings to the image of Raṅganātha consecrated by Alagiyamaṇavāḷap-Perumāḷ at Ālvār-Tirunāḍuḍaiya-pirāntirumāḷigai. It is further stipulated that the property of the defaulters would be confiscated.

 

320

Do.,     wesdt wall

Vijayanagara

Śrīraṅgadēvarāya

Śaka 1412, Parābhava.

Do.,     Grantha

States that the king, the disciple of Tātāchārya, built the garbhagṛiha, ardhamaṇṭapa, mahāmaṇṭapa, gōpura, etc., at Vāmama-kshētram and endowed a village to the same, Gives the epithet Śrīraṅgadēva-śikhāmaṇi to Tātāchārya.

321

Kūrattālvār shrine, west wall, proper left

…. ….….

Śaka 1430, Vibhava, Jyēshṭha Punnami, Friday, Irregular.

Telugu

 

Damaged. Seems to record the purchase and grant of land by Śrīraṅgarāja, son of Kuruchēṭi Vōbuḷarāju of Kāśyapagōtra, Āpastamba-sūtra and Yajuś-śākhā, for offerings to Kūrattālvār.

 

322

Same place, below No. 321 above

….

….

Śaka [1479] Piṅgala, Pushya śu. 12, Monday. Irregular.

 

Do.

 

Do. Seems to record an endowment of a sum of 2,000 chakra, probably towards the purchase of a village, and another endowment of 1,000 chakra-varāha in the year Kāḷayukti by Śrīraṅgarāju, son of Pōchirāju in the Ātrēya-gōtra, Āpas tamba-sūtra and Yajuś-śākhā, for the worship of Kūrattālvār and conducting the tirunakshatra (natal asterism) and the tiruvadhyayana festivals of the Bhaṭṭar.

 

323

Do.,     below No. 322 above

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Śaka 1478, Rākshasa, Chaitra… dvādaśi.

Do.

Do. Refers to an endowment of money. The details of the gift are lost.

324

Do.,     below No. 323 above

…. ….

Śaka 1474, Paridhāvi, Srāvaṇa ba. Śrījayantī=1552 A.D. August 12, Friday, ∙78, f.d.n. ∙21.

Do.

Do. Seems to refer to an endowment of money made by Kuruchēṭi Śrīraṅgarāja to the shrine of Kūrattāḷvār.

325 Same shrine, tiers of the west wall …. ….

Śaka 1480, Piṅgala, Āśvīja ba. 10, Sunday=1557 A. D., October 17, ∙34, Maghā, ∙11. The Śaka year quoted is current.

Do.

Records a gift of land by Ēkāṅgi Nārasiṅgayya, a devotee of Bhaṭṭar (successor of Rāmānuja), for the feeding of the Śrīvaishṇavas.

326 Do.,     south wall Vijayanagara ….

Śaka 1531, Kīlaka, Chaitra śu. 2, Monday=1608 A. D., March 7, f.d.t. ∙23, Rēvatī, ∙91. The Śaka year quoted is current.

Do.

Records an  endowment of some money for worship and offerings of curd-rice on the days of the natal stars of Periyālvār and others.

327 Do.,     fragments on the same wall Chōḷa …. Year 7 Tamil

Seems to refer to some transactions of the Peruṅguri sabhā of Uttamaśīli-chaturvēdimaṅgalam. One of the fragments refers to the sabhā of Nandivarmamaṅgalam.


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