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South Indian Inscriptions

 
10 Do. .. …. Śaka 1712, Sādhāraṇa, Bhādrapada, śu. 10. Do. Do. Do. Records the sale of the mirāri (right) of talāikam of the village Dēvarapalle with its appurtenances of land to a certain Dēgala Sōma by Mahānāyakāchārya Timmā-Nāyanigāru, son of Giriyappa-Nāyuḍu Doḍḍappa-Nāyuḍu of Nāgasamudram.
11 Do. .. …. Śaka 1719, Piṅgala, Śrāvaṇa, [ba] 10. Do. Do. Do. Records a similar sale of the mirāśi of talārikam of Khādarapēta to the same person mentioned above by Mahānāyaṅkāchārya Rājaśrḷ Topile Vōmbuḷa-Nāyanigāru of Nāgasamudra.
12 Talāri of Gundala, Gooty taluk, through the District Collector, Anantapur. .. …. …. Do. Do. Do. This plate evidently formed part of a complete document of which the other plates are missing. Seems to record that on receipt of the parvānā (firman) of the Nawab demanding compensation to certain merchants for theft committed within the limits of some lands at Prātakottacheruvu, the residents of the village represented that the lands were not theirs but belonged to two brothers Pedda Timma and Chinna Timma living at Nakkadoḍḍi village and that accordingly the latter  who were pproached by the messengers, agreed to pay the compensation after satisfying themselves that the lands were really theirs. The characters seem to belong to the 17th century A.D.
13 Sri Manyam Suryanarayanamurti of Vetapalem village, Coconada taluk, East Godavari district, through the Collector. .. Uṇḍīśvaradēva Śaka 1299, Piṅgala, śu. pañchamī, Wednesday, the sun in Mithuna, Vaidhṛiti[yōga]. Sanskrit in Telugu Returned to the owner. Ep. Ind. Records the grant by the king, of the village Gōdapaṛṛu renamed Uṇḍīśvarapuram after himself, divided into equal vrittis or shares among 32 specified Brahmans. Recounts also the formation on previous occasions of similar Brahman colonies out of several villages which were respectively renamed Tammavaram. Vīravaram and Uṇḍīśvarapuram after his father, mother and himself. The king is stated to have been born in the Solar race and had his residence in Sūrāvaram in Goṇṭūri-vṛitti.
14 Secretary, The Historical Research Society, Dharwar, through Mr. R. S. Panchamukhi. Western Chāḷukya. Vīra Satyāśrayadēva-Chakravarti, son of Vīra-Nārāyaṇa ‘ruling from Ayōdhipura’.

Parā [bha*] va, Vaiśākha, [śu.] 8, Monday.

Kannaḍa in Nāgār Do. Do. The in scription is engraved in characters assignable to about the 12th century A. D. The language is an obscure mixture of Kannaḍa and Mahrāṭhī. The king receives a number of Westerns Chālukya birudas. Seems to record a grant of land and house-site in the village Maramuri made by the king, while camping at Kapaḍi-Saṅgama in the course of his victorious campaign in the south to a certain Rāmagāvuṇḍa. (Cf. C.P. No. 1 of 1935-36).


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