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THE VIJAYANAGARA KINGS
Reference to Oḍḍiyan-galabhai.
65. No. 416 from Tiruppālaippandal (South Arcot), a record of Sāḷuva Narasiṅgadēva-Mahārāja dated in Śaka 1393, is a copy of those found at several
places such as Tirukkōyilūr, Nerkuṇam, etc.,
in the Tirukkoyilur taluk. It states that
owing to the Oḍḍiyan-galabhai, worship in the temples of gods TirunāgēśvaramUḍaiyār at Tiruppālaippandal and Brahmīśvaram-Uḍaiyār at Pāśāru, and in the
Jaina temples at Panaippāḍi and Ponparappu had ceased and that by the grant
of some exemptions of taxes on the deserted dēvadāna lands belonging to them,
worship was received in these temples during the king’s reign. As this was
a copy of the same original, the irregular details of date found in the other
records are also repeated here (Ep. Rep. for 1936-37, paragraph 59).
Kōnēridēva-Mahārāja.
66. Mahāmaṇḍalēśvara Kōnēridēva-Mahārāja figure in four inscriptions.
Two of them (Nos. 115 and 116) coming from Śrīraṅgam are dated simply in the
cyclic year Parīdāpi and register his gift
of the doors of the gōpura now called the
Chokkappānai-vāśal-gōpura, and an endowment of three vēli of land in
Pichchāṇḍārkōyil for providing musarōdaram (curd-rice offerings) to the god in his
name. No. 145 from Tiruchchendurai is also dated in the same cyclic year, which
must have corresponded to Śaka 1414 (=A.D. 1492-3), and registers an
incomplete transaction relating to the exemption of taxes on the lands belonging
to the temple of Tiruchchendurai-Uḍaiya-Nāyanār at Īśānamaṅgalam. Regarding this Kōnēridēva-Mahārāja and his partiality for Śiva temples, the Kōyilolugu contains some interesting details which have already been referred to in the Report for 1936-37, para. 78.
Sāḷuva Saṅgamadeva-Maharaja.
67. Two records from Anbil in the Trichinopoly district belong to the time of
Mahāmaṇḍalēśvara Sāḷuva Saṅgamadēva-Mahārāja (Nos. 149 and 152). One of
them (No. 149) which is dated in Śaka
1400, Vikāri, and which gives him the titles Śambuvarāya-sthāpanāchārya, Dakshiṇa-suratrāṇa-vibhāṭa, Kalyāṇapurava-
rādhīśvara and Dharaṇīvarāha, does not mention the name of the Vijaya-
nagara overlord. In two other records copied from the same village
(Nos. 593 and 594 of 1902), the same Sāḷuva chief figure with the
same birudas. In No. 593 of 1902 dated in Śaka 1408, the Vijayanagara
overlord Prauḍhadēvarāya is mentioned, while the other of Śaka 1403 is issued
independently by the chief. Owing, perhaps, to a temporary weakness of the
central government in this distant part of the empire, Saṅgamadēva seems to have
been semi-independent in Śaka years 1400 and 1403, while a few years later, he
appears to have been forced to acknowledge the overlordship of the king (Archl.
Survey Report for 1909, page 167). The two titles Śambuvarāya-sthāpanāchārya
and Dakshiṇa-suratrāṇa-vibhāṭa may have been assumed by him in virtue
of the fact that an earlier member of the Sāḷuva family, viz., Sāḷuva-Maṅgu had
actually taken part in the campaigns against Rājanārāyaṇa-Śambuvarāya resulting in the installation of another Śaṁbuvarāya named Venrumaṇkoṇḍa and
against the Madura Sultan, because there were no Śambuvarāya chieftains or
Madura Sultans about A. D. 1486, the date of this record. The chief is said
To have constructed a maṇḍapa in the Vishṇu temple at Anbil and called it the ‘Saṅgamarāyan-tirumaṇḍapam ’ (No. 152).
Tuḷuva Vīra-Naraśingaraya.
68. Vira-Naraśingarāya of the Tuḷuva dynasty figures in only one inscription
in the collection (No. 214), which comes from Chidipirāla in the Cuddapah
district. Reference is made in it the Sāḷuva
Gōvindarāju, son of Rāchirāju of the
Kauṇḍinya-gōtra and the Yajuś-śākhā as governing this region as a nāyarikara under the king. The object of the grant in this damaged record is not clear, but
as in its concluding portion the suṅkam (tolls) leviable on the head of cattle,
sold probably in the locality, such as, buffaloes, bulls, cows and horses, is specified,
and the taxes on marriages performed in the region are also mentioned, it is
probable that these taxes had to be collected and given over for providing
worship in the temple of Agastīśvara at Chadupurēla (i.e. Chidipirala).
Kṛishṇarāya—his Śēṭṭūru Copper-plate grant ofŚaka 1449.
69. Of Kṛishṇarāya, a copper-plate record was secured from the Anantapur
district (C. P. No. 10). It is dated in Śaka
1449, Sarvajit, and states that when the
king was visiting the temple of Virūpāksha on the bank of the Tuṅgabhadra
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