Annual Reports on Indian Epigraphy

Annual Reports

No.	Place of inscription.	Dynasty.	King.	Date.	Language and alphabet.	Remarks.
	GUNTUR DISTRICT ─contd. REPALLE TALUK─contd. Māḍugala─contd.
347	Slab set up in the Nandi-maṇḍapa in the same temple.	..	….	..	Telugu-Kannaḍa (archaic).	States that this was the lamp (?) of Saṁsārabhītadēva. In characters of the 7th century A.D.
348	Fragments of a hero-stone standing in the same temple.	..	….	Śaka 1045, Krōdhin	..	Badly damaged. Mentions Sāmarāju and Kāmabō[yu].
349	Reṇṭāla.─Sculptured white marble pillar set up on the southern mound on the Stambhālabōḍu hillock.	Ikhāku	[Ehuvala] Siri Chāṁtamūla	Year 8, Vasantapakha, Padhamadina.	Prākṛit in Brāhmī	In characters of the 3rd century A.D. Damaged. Records the setting up of the stone pillar for a Budha-Saṁgha at Khaḍagiri by the merchant Nataka, son of merchant (vaṇijaka) Saṁghami and Haghā, residents of Bhaṁgikaṭa, in conjunction with his wife and sons.
350	A second sculptured marble pillar set up in the same place.	..	….	..	Do.	Do. Mentions a Budha-Sagha (Buddha-Saṅgha).
351	A third marble slab set up in the same place.	..	….	..	Do.	Do. Badly damaged and mutilated.
352	Fragmentary marble slab lying near the northern mound in the same place.	..	….	..	Do.	Do. Reads ‘ma siṁga latta rāña’.
	KISTNA DISTRICT. GUDIVADA TALUK.
353	Balliparru.─Pillar built into the threshold of the entrance into the compound of the Vēṇugōpālasvāmin temple.	..	….	..	Telugu	In characters of about the 12th century A.D. Much damaged and mutilated and one side built in. Describes a certain chief (name lost) belonging to [To]ṇḍālakula with a string of epithets, and registers a gift of cows for maintaining a perpetual lamp in the temple of Mallikārjuna.
354	Siddhāntam.─On a pillar lying in front of the Nāgēśvarasvāmin temple.	..	….	Śaka 1326, Tāraṇa, Māgha, śu. 10, Tuesday	..	States that the pillar of the mukha-maṇḍapa in the temple of Nagarēśvaradēva at Koṇḍavīḍu was caused to be made by Rāvipūṇḍi Vīriseṭṭi called ‘the lord of Penugoṇḍapura’. for the merit of his parents. The donour is said to have belonged to the Vaiśya family and Sidiseṭla-gōtra.
	CHITTOOR DISTRICT. PUNGANUR TALUK.
355	Cherukuvāripalle.─Base of the Kāśi-Viśvēśvarasvāmin temple.	..	….	Śaka 1738, Dhātu, Māgha, ba. 5.	Do.	States that Mummaḍi Chikkarāyalu, son of Suguṭūri Immaḍi Chikarāyalu, built the gōpura of the temple, the maṇḍapa for Chaṇḍēśvara and the stone gateway, and also gave the metal images of the goddess (ammavāru) and of Chaṇḍēśvara.