The Indian Analyst
 

Annual Reports

 

No. Place of inscription. Dynasty. King. Date. Language and alphabet. Remarks.
  TRICHINOPOLY DISTRICTcontd. TRICHINOPOLY TALUKcontd. Śrīraṅgamcontd.          
93 Same wall . . . . . . Yuva, Kārttigai 10 Tamil. Records that 2 vēli of land belonging to the temple were allotted for worship to the images of Viṭṭalēśvara and Madhurakavi-Ālvār mentioned above. Also refers to the construction of a maṇḍapa and the formation of a garden by the donor mentioned in No. 92 above. Mentions also a shrine of Tiruppāṇ-Ālvār.
94 Stone built into the north wall of the Kūrttālvār shrine. . . . . . . Dhanus, Tuesday, Pūraṭṭādi. Do. Fragment. Mentions the temple of Purushōttamattu-Emberumān at Uttamasīli-chaturvēdimaṅgalam.
95 Slab kept near the Dēvasthānam Museum. Chōḷa. Parakēsarivarman ‘ who took Madura and Īlam’. 41st year Do. Mutilated at the end. Records gift of 2 pieces of land by a certain Brahmādhirājan alias Āchchiyan-Bhaṭṭan Śrī Vasudēvan Chakrapāṇi of Peruveṅgūr, a brahmadēya in Viḷā-nāḍu, for cake-offerings to the god on the day of ēkādaśi, during the Paṅguni festival in the temple.
96 North side of the Chittiraittēr-maṇḍapam in the east Chittirai street. . . . . . . Śaka 1366, Raktākshi, Tai 15. Do. States that this maṇḍapa was the gift of Śirupparaśar Viṭṭaṇan.
97 Slab set up in the street corner near the same maṇḍapa. Vijayanagara Veṅkaṭapatidēva-Mahārāya Śaka 1516, Jaya, Mēsha, śu. 3, Saturday, Rōhiṇī. Do. Records sale of house-sites by two Brāhmaṇas of the temple to Achchyutappa-Nāyaka, son of Śevvappa-Nāyaka, for establishing a Rāmānuja-kūṭam.
98 Four inner jambs of the gōpura in the same street. . . . . . . . . Grantha Four labels, one on each jamb reading ‘ Kaliyugarāman’ in characters of the 13th century A.D. Below this is sculptured in relief the figure of a Gaṇḍabhēruṇḍa, with a human body and two birds’ heads.
99 Slab set up in the Maṇavāḷa-māmunimaṭha in the south Uttira street. [Pāṇḍya] . . . . . . Tamil States that the Sundarapāṇḍyan-maṭha was built for the welfare of Perumāḷ Sundara-Pāṇḍya, by Varantaruvān Eḍuttakai-alagiyān alias Pallavarāyar of Tuñjalūr in Naḍuvil-kūrram, a subdivision of Tirumilalaikūrra-nāḍu, for the use of the Tridaṇḍi-sanyāsins.
100 Pillar in the maṇḍapa in front of the central shrine in the Daśāvatāra temple belonging to the Ahōbalamaṭha. . . . . . . Śaka 1618,Īśvara, Puraṭṭāśi, śu- 13, Śatabhishaj. Do. Incomplete. States that Sāmavēdi Rāmayyaṅgār alias Śrīraṅga Kalyāṇa-Rāmānujasvāmin, the nephew of Periya Kalyāṇa Rāmānūjasvāmin succeeded the latter in the supervision of the affairs of the Daśāvatāra temple.
101 North and west walls of the same shrine. . . . . . . Śaka . . . . [Viḷam]bi, Uttarāyaṇa, Rishabha, śu. 2, Monday, Rēvatī. Do. Damaged. Records grant of land Śeṅguḍi and Aṇalai including house-sites as Nityāgnihōtra-vṛitti to a certain Śrīraṅgarāja-Dīkshitar out of the tiruviḷaiyāṭtam lands of the shrine of Tirumaṅgai-Ālvār, by Nārāyaṇasvāmin, the agent in charge of the latter shrine in the Daśāvatāram temple. After daily worship in the temple and on the 5 festival days in honour of Tirumaṅgai-Ālvār every year , the Jīyar was entitled to certain honours.

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