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249

Stone near the Mālakuṇṭa, west of the
village.

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Persian (?)

In florid characters. Purport not clear.

250

Mohideenpuram (hamlet of Bōgōlu).— Image of Hanumān in front of the Chennakēśava temple.

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Śaka 1464, Dundubhi,
Māgha ba.        13,
Thursday. Irregular.

Telugu             

Records the consecration of the image of Hanumān at Bhōgavōlu by Chenname Nāyuḍu, son of Padāla Andaṇayya.

251

Slab in front of the Bhairava temple on the Bhairavakoṇḍa hill, about 5 miles N.W. of Mohideenpuram.

Western Chālukya
[?]

Vikramāditya   

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Do.      (Archaic)         

States that Kalli-bōḷa Gaṇapati caused to be made the images of Nandīśvara and Daṇḍīśvara and that Munasaṅge, son of Eyuva-Āchāri, engraved the inscription. In characters of about 8th century.

252

A second slab in the same place

Vijayanagara   

Dēvarāya Oḍeya

Śaka 1324, Chitra-
bhānu, Āshāḍha ba.
3, Sunday = 1402
A.C., June 18,
Sunday.

Telugu 

States that Bommi Reḍḍi, son of Singāya Reḍḍi of Donakoṇḍa, renovated the temple of Nīlakaṇṭhadēva on the Udayagiri hill in Ēruva-nāḍu for the merit of his father and mother Chevasāni.

253

Fragment of a slab lying in the same place         

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Do.      (Archaic)         

Damaged and fragmentary. In characters of about the 9th
century.

253A

Saptamātṛi panel in the same temple   

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Do.

Highly damaged. Seems to mention Mahēndra Chōra. In
characters of about the 10th-11th century.

254

Threshold slab of the goddesse’s shrine in the same temple.

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Telugu 

Damaged. Seems to record the obeisance of some devotees
whose images are embossed in flat relief in the act of pro-
strating before the god. Mentions Tatvaprakāśa-yōgi. In
late characters.

255

Brim of the natural pond called Śāsanāla- dona, about ½ a mile to the north of the Bhairava temple.

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Do.      (Archaic)         

Reads :- (1) Śrī Utpāti piḍugu.
(2) Ēkānta nivāsi. In characters of about the 8th  century. Above the writing is carved the figure of a lotus and in it, a liṅga.

256

Mōkshaguṇḍam.—Door-jamb, proper right, of the Muktīśvara temple.

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Śaka 1691, Sarvadhārin, Māgha, śu. 15.

Do.

Records the completion of the temple of god Muktīśvara on
the date specified. Registers a gift of one kuṅcha of land to
god Sāṁbaśiva by Tāḍicherla Veṅkaṭanarasu for the Śivarātri festival of the god.

257

Turimeḷḷa.—Slab set up in front of the
Pāpavināśēśvara temple.

Western Chālukya       

Vikramāditya

Second regnal year      

Do.      (Archaic)         

Registers a gift of land made by a chief who bore the surname ‘Ujēnīpiśācha’ and was ruling over Eruva fom the city Turutaṭāka for the merit of his mother. The chief is further described as the right-hand man of Goggi-Bhaṭāra. Published in Ep. Ind., Vol. XXIX pp. 160 ff.

258

Second slab in the same place              

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Śaka 1569      

Telugu

Damaged. Records the gift of a gold plate, 2000 ṭaṁkas and other gifts made to the gods Surabhēśvara, Pāpavināśadēva and Rāmayadēva of Sattevōlu and refers to the levy of a fee on marriages and upanayanams performed in these three temples, by Sthānapati Pedagaṅga-Jīyya.

259

Third slab in the same place

Vijayanagara   

Achyutadēva Mahārāya           

Śaka 1462, Śārvari,
Ashāḍha, śu. 11,
Tuesday = 1540 A.C., June 15, Tuesday.

Do.

Registers the gift of the village Pōtavaram near Tamaṭaṁkoṇḍe in Eruva-sīma by Nāgappaṅgāru, son of Paṇḍari Rāma- bhaṭḷaṁgāru, for the daily worship of god Pāpavināśana- dēva and for the merit of Veṅkaṭādri-Ayya who is said to have conferred the Erava-sīma as pārupatyam on the donor.



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