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South Indian Inscriptions |
INSCRIPTIONS COLLECTED DURING THE YEAR 1906-07 KAKATIYA AND FEUDATORY
No.
616
(A. R. No. 616 of 1907) Nandaluru, Rajampet Taluk, Cuddapah District Saumyanatha
temple – on a fourth slab lying near the outer gopura Published in S.I.I., Vol. X, No. G. 496. No.
619
(A. R. No. 619 of 1907) Gundluru, Rajampet Taluk, Cuddapah District Agastyesvara
temple – on a slab set up in the premises Published in S.I.I., Vol. No. (Miscellaneous Inscriptions-Telugu) No.
610
(A. R. No. 610 of 1907) Nandaluru, Rajampet Taluk, Cuddapah District Saumyanatha
temple – on the outer gopura, right of entrance This
is dated in Saka 1186, Raktakshi, Makara, ba. 15, Sunday, Sravana,
ardhodaya (A.D. 1265, January 18). This
record the gift of magamai (duty on articles of merchandise) from
Pottappinadu which he had been long levying with the sanction of the
Nattavar, setti and others, to the temple of Sokkapperumal, by the chief
Nagarasa the pradhani of
Gandapendara Jannigadeva for tirupponagam
offering daily with one tumbu of rice and with double that quantity on
the days of Margali and other specified days.
Provision was also made for the daily supply of three flower
garlands to the temple through one Dasar Tirumangaiyalvan for a
remuneration of the daily sustenance with a nali
of offered rice and 2 madai in
cash once every year. Jannigadeva was a minister under the Kakatiya queen Rudramba and was administering the country between Panungallu and Marjavadi in succession to Gangaya-Sahini (A. R. 1910, Part II, para 46). No.
618
(A. R. No. 618 of 1907) Gundluru, Rajampet Taluk, Cuddapah District Lakshminarayana temple – on another slab set up in the same place Ambadeva
Saka 1213 Khara The
inscription is damaged. It is
dated in Saka 1213, Khara, Kanya, ba. 8, Monday, Punarvasu corresponding
to A.D. 1291, September 17. It
records a gift of a land behind the temple and an areca-garden as sarvamanya
to the temple of Lakshminarayana-Perumal at Gundalur in
Merpakkai-nadu of Adhirajendramandalam, by the chief (Ambadeva) for his
own welfare and prosperity. This
Ambadeva belonged to a family of Kayasthas of whom the first member
Gangaya-Sahini was a cavalier in the service o Kakatiya Ganapati.
He was succeeded in his office by his sister’s son
Janniga-Janardanadeva and next to him came Tripurarideva (No. 229 of
1936) whose younger brother and the most powerful of the family was
Ambadeva. The troublous times
that followed after the death of Ganapati and during the reign of
Rudramba account for this chief’s not
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