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CUDDAPAH DISTRICT─contd.
KAMALAPURAM TALUK-contd.

Slab set up in front of the same temple

Śaka 1442, Vikrama, Jyēshṭha, śu. 7,Wednesday.

Telugu .

Registers gift of land made for the maintenance of a satra (feeding house) during the parusha of god Tiruvēṅgaḷanātha at Tirumala, by Channayya, son of Gurujepalli Narasappayya, for the merit of Timmarusayya and Gōvindayya.

Another slab set up in the same place .

Śrīraṅgarāyadēva-Mahārāya ‘ruling at Penugoṇḍa.’

Do.

Registers gift of land made by Kaṭṭamāma Siṅgārrājayya-Dēvachōḍa-Mahārāja, son of Śrīraṅgarāja of the Solar race, for feeding Brahmans at Chadupurēla in Ghaṇḍikōṭa-sīma, on the occasion of renovating the silted up channels, for the benefit of the  gods Gōpālakṛishṇa and Agastīśvara of the village. Lays down also the rates of grain-rent to be collected from the lands irrigated by these channels.

Pillar in the Mañchālamma temple about a mile to the west of the village.

Śaka 1738, Dhātu, Vaiśākha, śu. 5.

Do.

Records the construction of the mukha-maṇḍapa of the temple of the goddesses Pālēṭamma and Mañchālamma of Chadpurāla by four private individuals (names specified) of the village.

Front wall of the same temple

Śaka 1737, [Yu]va, Vaiśākha, śu. 5.

States that the garbhagṛiha of the temple of Pālēṭamma and Mañchālamma were constructed by Gollapalle Gaṅgi-Reḍḍi and Liṁgā-Reḍḍi.

Same wall

Do.

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Damaged. Seems to refer to some gifts made to the pūjāris of the same deities by some Reḍḍi.

Base of a broken image of Āñjanēya lying on the roadside about 3 furlongs to the east of the village.

Krōdhin, Bhādrapada, ba. 5, Wednesday.

States that this is the image of Hanumantadēva set up by Gāmula Nārema. The characters belong to the 17th  century A. D.

Chinnachappalle.─Slab set up in the centre of the village.

Achyutadēva-Mahārāya

Śaka 1453, Khara, [Vaiśākha], śu. 12.

Do.

Much damaged. Seems to registers some pratishṭhā and gift of lands made  to the god Channakēśvara of Chappalle by a certain [Ra]ṅgaparāja, son of Koṇḍrāja and Vōbuḷamma, for the merit of his parents. Mentions Salakarāja and [Kā]malāpuram-sīma.

Doṇdapāḍu (hamlet of Valasapalle).─ Slab lying near the Gōpālasvāmin temple.

Kīlaka, Vaiśākha, śu. 11.

States that the five sons of Timmi-Reḍḍi and Bhūma-Sānī of Doṇḍapāḍu dug a well and a tank for supply of  water to the village and made an endowment of land as dasavandam, for the merit of their parents.

Another slab lying in the same place  .

Pramōdūta, Śrāvaṇa, śu. 7, Friday.

Registers gift of dasavanda land in Doṇḍapāḍu made by Vōbuḷayyadēva-Mahārāja, son of Mahāmaṇḍalēśvara Malarāja, to Siṅgamareḍḍi Timmaya and Kaṁchchena Timmaya,for having built the tank (in the village). Doṇḍapāḍu is stated to be situated ins Gaṇḍikōṭa-sīma and to have been given to the donor by Sāḷuva Gōvinḍayagāru.

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