The Indian Analyst
 

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268

Another pillar in the same place

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Ānanda, Bhādrapada, śu. 5.

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a pole measuring 24 cubits (mūras) and the villages brought back to settle therein.

269

Poḍadurti.─Slab lying in a field about 2 furlongs to the west of the village.

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Śaka [11]78, Naḷa, Jyēshṭha, śu. 3, Sunday.

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States that Mahānandaya, son of Vellamāri Timmarāju, paid obeisance to god Hara. The characters are of the same period as No. 267 above.

270

Rājupālem.─Rock to the south of the Śiva temple near the river.

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Damaged and worn out. Seems to registers the renewal of a former gifts of land, made to the temple of Mūlasthānadēva at Poḍatolta by Gaṅgayya-Sāhaṇi.

271

Sambaṭūru.─Broken slab lying in front of the Chennakēśvara temple.

Vijayanagara

Veṅkaṭapatidēva-Mahārāya ‘ruling at Penugoṇḍapaṭṭaṇa.’

Śaka 1527, Viśvāvasu, Śrāvaṇa, śu. 15, Friday.

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In modern characters. Specifies the distance of the Kundūru channel as 47 bāras from the rock.

272

Another slab set up in the same place .

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Sadāśivadēva-Mahārāya

Śaka 1473, Virōdhikṛit, Jyēshṭha , ba. 30.

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Records the conditions under which certain lands belonging to god Chennarāya were given to the kāṁpus for cultivation, by Duggarāju Nārappa, the mudrakartā of Raghunātharāya, under the orders of Mahāmaṇḍalēśvara Jillēḷḷa China Raṅgapatirājadēva-Mahārāja.

273

Two slabs set up in the same place

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Śaka 1575 (wrong), Plavaṅga, Āśvija, śns 10, Tuesday, Śravaṇa, Abhijit.

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Registers the settlement of the dispute regarding certain Registers the settlement of the dispute regarding certain of gift-lands granted in the previous year Śōbhakṛit and the redistribution of the vṛittis of the sarvamānya-agrahāra village Śrībhāshyapura between the Chennarāya temple and the Ayyagāḷḷu by Mahāmaṇḍalēśvara Nārayyadēva-Mahārāja, son of Nandyāla Narasiṅgayyadēva-Mahārāja, at the request of the parties. The agrahāra Śrībhāshyapuram comprised the villages Saṁbaṭūru and Gaḍamayapalle situated in Tāḷḷapodaṭūru in Mulikināṭi-sīma, a subdivision of the Ghaṇḍikōṭa-sīma belonging to the Udayagiri-chāvaḍi, which had been granted to Nārayyadēva-Mahārāja as nāyaṅkara bys the king.

274

Cornice stone of the bali pīṭha in the same temple.

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States that the god commanded Niṁgappa and Gaṅgamma of Chuppalli that, having hitherto been propitiated under the name Chennakeśvara, He (the god) wished to be worshipped thereafter under the name Lakshmī-Nārāyaṇasvāmin, and that accordingly they came to Sambaṭūru from Ghaṇḍi kōṭa, assembled the āchārya-purushas and Brahmans and re-named the god as Lakshmī-Nārāyaṇasvāmin. Adds that the money collected from the devotees and the pilgrims should go, half to the  administrations of the village and the other half to the temple, with which the ‘Rāmānujakūṭa’ and other charities should be maintained.

275

Pillar in the mukha-maṇḍapa of the same temple.

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Rudhirōdgāri, Āshāḍha, ba. 7, Tuesday.

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Damaged and worn out. Seems to refer to the construction of the bali-pīṭha by a private individual (name lost).

276

South wall of the same temple

Vijayanagara Sadāśivadēva-Mahārāya

Śaka 1479, Piṅgaḷa, Āśvīja, śu. 2, Friday.

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Registers gift of lands in Chadiperēla, after purchase for 50 varāhas, made by Mahāmaṇḍalēśvara China Ahōbalēśvara- dēva-Mahārāja, son of Nandēla Ahōbalēśvaradēva-Mahā-rāja, for services in the temple of Kēśava-Perumāḷ of Sam-baṭūru alias Śrībhāshyapuram. Chadipirēla is stated to be- long to Mulikināḍu-sīma ins Ghaṇḍikōṭa sīma of the Udaya- gi ri-chāvaḍi, which had been granted to the donor as nāyaṅkara by the king. Also records gift of ¼th share of the prasāda due to him (donor) from the temple to a certain Bhōjanapalle Kṛishṇāchāryulu.


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