The Indian Analyst
 

Annual Reports

 

  CUDDAPAH DISTRICT.
KAMALAPURAM TALUK.
Dynasty. King. Date.

Language and alphabet.

Remarks.
191

Animals.─Broken slab set up near the well behind the Karnam’s house.

Western Chāḷukya[ ?]

Gaṇḍa-Triṇētra-Mahārāja

  Telugu

Much worn out. The characters belong to about the 9th century A. D. Seems to register some gifts of land and to mention Rēnāṇḍu Sabbaya-[Raṭṭagu] . . . and Jaḍa-Chō[ḷa]. Refers to Mahānandi and Siddhavaṭambu.

192

Top of a broken slab lying in the same place.

     

Telugu (archaic)

Much damaged. In characters of the 9th century. A. D. Mentions Satyāśraya with the birudas Śrīramaṇuṇḍu and Bhuvinutuṇḍu.

193

Same slab

   

15th year

Telugu

Damaged. Registers sale of lands made to Prōlajiyya.

194

Broken slab lying near the stream to the east of the village.

Vijayanagara  

Śaka 1524. Plava,

Tai 2.
Do.

In late characters. Only the last portion of the  inscription is preserved. Seems to registers a gift of mānya land to a certain Chinakarumala Koṇḍa.

195

Slab set up near the image of Gaṇēśa to the west of the village.

Vaidumba

Sadāśivarāya

  Do.

Register the  remission of taxes on the barbers of [A]nimela by Mahāmaṇḍalēśvara Rāmarāja TirumalarājayyadēvaMa[hārāja].

196

Boulder in field Survey No. 1409 on the way to Saṅgamēśvaram.

 

Irigaya-Mahārāja

18th year

Do.

Registers a tax-free grant of land in Animela made to Sūrya. Kramadhāḷḷu by the king, as ēkōddishṭa-bhukta-dakshiṇā for the merit of his (deceased) father Be[jayi]ta-Mahārāja.

197

Slab set up in front of the Saṅgamēśvarasvāmin temple.

Vijayanagara

Sadāśivadēva-Mahārāya

11 + 1st year, Āḍi

Sanskrit and Telugu in Telugu.

Records that  two copper-plate grants registering the gift of the villages Animala and Nandimaṅgalam in one and Vēmpalle and Poḷela in the other were obtained by Mahāmaṇḍalēśvara Guruvaya-Dēvachōḍa-Mahārāja, from the king through Śrīraṅgarāja Rāmarāja ; and the four villages mentioned therein were now gifted away by him to the temple at Animala on the occasion of Śivarātri, for the daily worships of god Saṅgamēśvara at the confluence of the rivers Agahanāśinī and Pāvanī. The donor is said to be the son of Maṅgarāja and grandson of Bommarāja and to have belonged to the Kāśyapa-gōtra. Āpastamba-sūtra, Yajuś-śākhā and Sūrya-vaṁśa. A number of other persons are also mentioned as being present at the time of the gift.

198

Broken slab set up in the same place.

Do

Vīra-Veṅkaṭapatirāya ‘ruling at Penukoṇḍa’.

18th year Telugu .

Registers certain gifts of lands made by Mahāmaṇḍalēśvara Gaṅgādhararāja-Dēvachōḍa-Mahārāja, sons of Gurubarāja-Basavarāja of the Kāśyapa-gōtra, Āpastamba-sūtra, Yajuś śākhā and Sūrya-vaṁśa, for the worship of the god at Saṅgamēśvaram.

199 Back of the same slab .     21st year (in words) Do. Records gift of certain dasavanda lands made for the maintenance of the vīṇā and kinnara music service in the temple. The name of the donor is not mentioned.

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