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CUDDAPAH DISTRICT─contd. KAMALAPURAM TALUK─contd.

Slab set up near the well on the roadside to the south of the village.

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Śaka 1750, Sarvadhārin, Vaiśākha, śu. 15.

States that the stone well was constructed by Koṇḍā-Reḍḍi, son of Vōbiḷi-Reḍḍi and grandson of China Mallā-Reḍḍi at Paṁddiḷḷapalle in Kāmalāpuram tālūku.

Pāyasampalle.─ Stone pillar in front of the Chennakēśvara temple.

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Śaka 1721, Kāḷayukta, Nija-Śrā-vaṇa, śu. 15.

Do.

States that the dīpastambha was set up by Peda Gurvi-Reḍḍi, son of Vīrā-Reḍḍi and grandson of Nala Gurvi-Reḍḍi of Pāyasampalle.

A slab set up in the temple.

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Sanskrit and Telugu in Telugu.

Contains an incantation addressed to Ghaṇṭākarṇa for protection against hoof-diseases in cattle. No yantra accompanies it. (See No. 302 below.)

Peddanapāḍu.­─A boulder in a field about a furlong to the east at the ruined temple.

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Much damaged and worn out. In characters of a about the 13th century A. D. Seems to record a gift of land.

Slab set up in front of the Madanagōpāla. svāmin temple.

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Śaka 1635, Vijaya, Vaiśākha, śu. 15.

Do.

States that Timmā-Reḍḍi of Peddanapāḍu got made the silver and gold images of Madanagōpāla-Kṛishṇasvāmi, set up in the dhavajastambha and the dīpastambha in the temple and performed the garuḍōtsava for the deity.

Slab set up in front o fthe Śiva temple.

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Śaka 1357, Ānanda, Māgha, ba. 14, Friday.

Do.

States that a certain Nāgarāju, son of Cheṁguṁṭṭa Mallamarāju of the Śaunaka-gōtra ads the Yajuś-śākhā, had the image of Vīrabhadra at Peddanapāḍu consecrated.

Broken pillar lying near the same temple.

Sadāśivadēva-Mahārāya

Śaka 147[0], Kīlaka, Māgha, śu. 7.

Do.

Registers the grant of the lands as sarvamānya to the karaṇams of Peddanapāḍu in Ghaṇḍikōṭa-sīma by Mahāmaṇḍalēśvara China Timmayadēva-Mahārāja, son of Timmarāja, grandson of Rāmarāja and great-grandson of Āravīṭi Bukkarāja of the Ātrēya-gōtra and the Sōma-vaṁśa. Ghaṇḍikōṭa-sīma is stated to have been given as nāyaṅkara to the donor by the king. The donor calls himself a devotee of Śrī-Kṛishṇa.

Slab set up on the north side of the same temple (outside the compound).

Śaka 1484, Dundubhi, Phālguṇa, śu. [5].

Do.

Damaged and worn out. Mentions Mahāmaṇḍalēśvara Raghunātharājayadēva-Mahārāja, Annappa-Nāyanigāru and Hōragrāma Peddanapāḍu in Avuku-sīma.

Slab set up in front of the Āñjanēya temple.

Manmatha, Phālguṇa, śu. 5.

Kannaḍa

The characters belong to the 15th century A.D. States that Naraharidēva, the sthānapati of Rāmachandrarāya, consecrated the image of Hanumān at Peddanapāḍu.

Peddachappalle.─Pillar in the maṇḍapa of the Agastēśvarasvāmin temple.

Śaka 1584, Śubhakṛit, Mārgaśira, ba. 13.

Registers the cowle given by Havāldāru Hamīru-Saiṁdu-Husēnu-Sāhēbu to the Kāmpus and Karaṇams of the villageChappalli, which states that their lands, that were formerly measured by a pole (ghaḍa) of a non-standard length resulting in the reduction of their original extent and the consequent desertion of the village by its tenants, wore re-measured by

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