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VIJAYANAGARA
A copper-plate record of Sadāśiva (C.P. No. 8), dated in Śaka 1486,
Raktākshin, registers a sarvamānya grant made by the king at the instance of
Aḷiya-Rāmarāja, of the village Siripura alias Raghunāthapura in Velnāḍu
sthala of the Koṇḍavīḍu-Mahārājya to the scholar Chiṭṭi-Bhaṭṭa, son of
Gaṇapayārya and grandson of Tuṇḍipalle Siṅgārya of the Kauśika gōtra. The
preamble containing the genealogy of the king in the present record is identical
in phrasaeology with that in the Bēvinahaḷḷi grant of the king dated in Śaka
1473 (Ep. Ind., Vol. XIV, pp. 216 ff). A few additional verses are, however,
added in the present inscription while giving the genealogy of Aḷiya Rāmarāja.
The donated village Siripura may be identified with the village of the same
name in the Sattenapalle taluk of the Guntur distrcit.
Vipravinodins.
In the Ep. Rep. for 1932-33, page 77, mention is made the Vipravinōdi
community in the Cuddapah district, which figures largely in the period of
Sadāśiva’s reign. It is also mentioned
in a record copied this year from Iñjēḍu
in the Kurnool district (No. 271) dated in Śaka 1475, Ānanda, when some
members of the community made a gift to the God Veṅkaṭanātha of Iñjēḍu
on the day of Śrīrāma-Jayanti for the merit of their community.
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Śrīraṅgadēva-Maharaya.
71. In an inscription of Śrīraṅgadēva-Mahārāya form the Tirukkoyilur
taluk, (No. 55), which is dated in the cyclic year Bahudhānya and Śaka 1450
(wrong), a village named Akkappanāyaka pāḷaiyam in Vīrapāṇḍyanallūr śīrmai
is stated to have been granted as sarvamānya by Tirumalai-Nambi Tiruvēṅkaṭayyan to the religious teacher Tiruvaraṅgam Tātāchārya, as a gift of Vaiyyappa-Nāyaka Kṛishṇapa-Nāyaka. We know from No. 60 that Akkappa-Nāyaka was
the father of Koṇḍama-Nāyaka to whom
Vīrapāṇḍyanallūr had been granted by
Kṛishṇama-Nāyaka, son of Vaiyyappa. The gift-village mentioned in the present record must have received its name from Akkappa. The Śaka date seems
to be a mistake for Śaka 1500 which falls in the reign of Śrīraṅga. The same
donor figures again in Śaka 1519 corresponding to Hēviḷambi, when he made
Gift for a Rāmānujakūṭam
(feeding house). an endowment of land for conducting
a Rāmānujakūṭam to the same teacher
for the merit of the (Śeñji) chief Vaiyyppa-Nāyaka Kṛishṇappa-Nāyaka (No. 71).
In a record from the Tirukkoyilur taluk (No. 69), this Kṛishṇappa-Nāyaka is
stated to have presented the village of Koḍanūr to the temple of Paṭṭābhirāma
at Śeñji. One of his agents was Bommayya-Piḷḷai, who presented as the gift
of his master, the village Śirrāmūr in the same taluk for the sacred bath and
offerings to the god Chidambarēśa, evidently the deity at Chidambaram
(No. 68). The identity of Vaiyyappa has been discussed in some detail in the Epigraphical Report for 1933-34, Part II, paragraph 34.
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Veṅkaṭapatidēva-Mahāraya (I).
72. A set of copper-plates of Veṅkatapatidēva-Mahārāya (No. 13) dated in
Śaka 1533, Virōdhikṛit, which is reported to have been found at Śrīperumbūdūr
in the Chingleput district registers a sarvamānya grant made by the king in the
presence of the god Veṅkaṭēśa, of the village Chittūru renamed Raghupatisamudram
including its hamlet
Mūvēndrappattu, to a scholar versed
in the Vedānta, the Tarka and the eighteen Purānas, named Ammāḷāchārya,
son of Kṛishṇayāchārya and grandson of Vaṅgipura-Ammāḷayya of the
Bhāradvāja-gōtra, Āpastamba-sūtra and Yajus-śākha. The village is stated
to have been situated in Ūttukkāḍi sīma, a subdivision of Cheṅgāḍu-kōtta of
Paḍaivī¬ḍu-mahārājya Another record (No. 311) which is from Indukūru in
the Cuddapah district mentions Chinabhaṇḍāram Nāgappa-Nāyaniṅgāru who
was the Treasury Officer of the king, whose agent (mudrakartā) a certain
Timmannagāru made some grant to the Kāpus of the village.
Veṅkaṭapatidēva II.
73. Along with the plates of Veṅkata mentioned above was received, strung
on to the same ring, an odd copper-plate of Veṅkatapatidēva II dated in Saka
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