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KURNOOL  DISTRICT─contd. KURNOOL  TALUK─contd.

Base of the dhavajastambha set up in front of the Vīrabhadrasvāmin temple.

Śaka 1474, Paridhāvin, Chitra śu. 3.

Registers a remission of the vīramushṭipannu (tax) made by Vīramushṭi Hucha-Vīraya and two other individuals in favour of god Vīrabhadra at the instance of Siddha- Bhikshāvṛitti-Ayya.

Erramatham.─Slab set up in Survey No. 490, near the ruined temple of Bhairavēśvarasvāmin.

Bhuvanaikamalladēva ‘ruling at Baṅkāpura’.

Śaka 997, Rākshasa, Chaitra, puṇṇame, Friday, lunar eclipse.

Kannaḍa

Records that Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara Satyarasa constructed a temple at Eḍeyamaṭha and consecrated therein, the god Bikkēśvara named after his father Bikke-ārasa and granted land and tank for the daily services in the temple and a satra for the ascetics. The gift was entrusted to  Sadyōjāta- Paṇḍita of Eḍeya-maṭha. Satyarasa bears the epithets born of the Jīmūtavāhana lineage’,  ‘Lord of Tagarapura’, ‘Suvarṇa-garuḍa-dhvaja’, etc.

Kurikunda.─Slab lying behind  the Śiva temple.

• Śaka 9[8]0 Vi[ḷambi], Vaiśākha, puṇṇame.
  • [Śaka 981],
Vaiśākha, śu. puṇṇame, Thursday.

Do.

Damaged and peeled off. Begins with the praśasti Charaṇasarōruha’, etc., of a chief of the Karikāla family. The details of the inscription are lost. On a side of this slab is another damaged inscription bearing the 2nd date.

Sculptured slab buried near the platform in the centre of the village.

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Damaged and peeled off. In characters of the 11th century A. D. The portion that remains refers to certain mānya lands.

Malyāla.─Pillar set up behind the temple of Śiva.

Śaka 1208, Vyaye

Telugu

Records the gift of land made by Sarvēśvarayyaṁgāru after obtaining it on pulvari (grazing) lease from the king while he was accompanied by the local chiefs including Brahmarājamayya[ldē]va at Alampūru to a certain Mahādēva for maintaining a feeding house (satra).

Same pillar

Rudrakumāra

Śaka 1212, Vikṛiti, Vaiśākha, śu. 15, Thursday.

Do.

Records that Sarvēśvarayyaṁgāru established a maṭha at Malyāla, endowed it with lands given to him by Rudradēva, son of Mahāsāmanta Cheraku Bollaya-Reḍḍi and left the maṭha with the endowments in charge of Mahādēva, son of his brother Sadāśivayyaṁgāru.

Do.

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Khara, Vaiśākha, śu. 15, Thursday.

Do.     

States that Sarvēśvarayyaṁgāru mentioned above constructed the temples of Sarvēśvara named after himself, and of Bollēśvara named after  Bollaya-Reḍḍi, son  of Cheraku Peda-Dēvaya, and entrusted them to the charge of the same person (mentioned in No. 321 above).

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