MISCELLANEOUS

expenses, shall be divided equally between the Company and Ēkōji-Mahārāja and that Ēkōji-Mahārāja shall keep an accountant to audit the profit ;
Sixthly, if any difficulty (kāriyam) arises in respect of these villages. Êkōji-Mahārāja shall set them right; if, in default, the Company had to get them right, the expenses incurred therefor shall be deducted from the annual amount payable by them ;
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Seventhly, the dēvadāya, brahmadāya, mānya and madappiram (lands) in Nāgapaṭṭiṇam shall continue as before ;
Eighthly, the two sea-ports Kāraikkāl and Tirumalairājāviṇpaṭṭiṇam which had been leased to SijñauAmarāla-Mahārāja by Chokkanātha- Nāyaka of Madura in (A.D.) 1674, Ānanda, were in the enjoyment of Ekōji-Mahārāja for nine months and on this account there was a great fall in the Company’s trade. Pending the settlement of this dispute by arbitration by the Governor of Ceylon, these seaports shall continue in the possession of Êkoji-Maharaja. After the present document is signed by Ékoji-Maharaja, the trade privileges referred to in clause 2 above shall come into force. As the factory at Karaikkal had fallen down in places, these factories and their adjoining go-downs shall be rebuilt according to the old plan, whenever required by the Company : the old veḷḷaimanushar (Europeans) and servants shall be reinstated (?) and trade carried on as before ; and

Ninthly, Ēkōji-Mahārāja consented to all the terms of this agreement and affixed his signature thereto. From (A.D.) 1676 Rākshasa (wrong for Naḷa), Tai to (A.D.) 1677, Piṅgaḷa, Āni, i.e., for a period of one and a half years, the amount (of lease) accruing for Nāgapaṭṭiṇam and the old ten villages is six thousand three hundred (pon) and one tusker, which shall be paid (in two instalments), one in 1677 Naḷa, Tai, of three thousand one hundred and fifty (pon) and one tusker and (the other) of three thousands one hundred and fifty (pon) in Piṅgaḷa, Ani.

The Mysore Chief Dēvarāja.
   82. No. 108 which comes from Viṇṇapaḷḷi in the Gopichettipalaiyam taluk of the Coimbatore distrcit belongs to the Mysore king Devarāja-Bhūpālaka who is described as the son of Dēvarāja-Oḍeya and the grandson of Chāmarāja-Oḍeya of Mysore and as ruling from Śrīraṅgapaṭṭaṇa. He is stated to have belonged to the Atrēya-gōtra, Āśvalāyana-sūtra and Ṛik-śākhā. The record is dated in Śaka 1593, Virōdhikṛit, and contains astronomical details giving the equivalent A.D. 1671, September 8, Friday. It registers the foundation of an agrahāra by the king at Viṇṇapaḷḷi under the name of Nañjanagūḍa-Dēvarājapura and the grant of 60 shares of land to as many Brahmans of various gōtras for the merit of his ancestors. The king is evidently identical with Doḍḍa-Dēvarāja who was ruling at this period from 1659 to 1672 A.D. He is known to have been a great warrior, a patron of learning, and a liberal donor. During his reign the Mysore army made inroads into the adjoining Coimbatore district and took Erode and Dhārāpuram, and on one occasion it is stated to have pursued the army of the Nāyakas as far as Trichinopoly.

Tirumalai Raghunathadeva-Setupati.
   83. A copper-plate record in the collection (C.P. No. 12) belonging to the Sētupati chief Tirumalai Raghunāthadēva, son of Daḷavāy Sētupati Kāttadēvar comes from Tiruppattūr in the Ramnad district. It is dated in Śaka 1589, Plavaṅga. The chief claims to have performed the Hiraṇyagarbha-sacrifice and had the titles Tēvainagarādhipan, Setumūlarakshādhurandharan, Rāmanāthasvāmikārya-dhurandharan, Vaigai-valanādan, Bhara-anāṭaka-praxinan and Tondiyanturaikāvalan. The preamble given in the present record is similar to the one found for this chief in another copper plate which is published on pp. 75-77 of the Tamil and Sanskrit Inscriptions by Burgess and Natesa Sastri.

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