Language and Alphabet Language

TIRUNELVELI DISTRICT—concld.
SANKARANAYINARKOIL TALUK—concld.
Vāsudēvanallūr—concld.

North, west and south walls, central shrine and ardhamaṇḍapa.

Jaṭilavarman Tribhu-….Kulaśēkharadēva.

…….. Monday, Anusham.

Tamil, Grantha

Damaged. Seems to make some provision for feeding Brāhmaṇas.

Fragments built into the north prākāra wall around the mahāmaṇḍapa.

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Tamil

Contains a portion of the praśasti commencing with the words
Kāndaḷūr-śālaikkalam=arutta, etc. Seems to record the
provision for burning a lamp made by Pāli Śāttān of Parāntakamaṅgalam, a brahmadēya in Āri[nāḍu].

Another fragment built into the same wall

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Damaged and fragmentary. In characters of about the 12th century A.D.

ORISSA
GANJAM DISTRICT

Baragarh (near Russelkonda).—Stone built into the wall of the local Śiva temple.

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Gauḍīya

Damaged. Seems to record the construction or repairs of a temple by a  person whose name may be Kēsaḍachandra.

Jīrābāḍī (near Jagannathprasād).—Stone lying in the compound of the Dakshiṇēśvara temple near the village.

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Sanskrit, Northern Alphabet.

Fragmentary. Seems to contain part of a praśasti in verse. Mentions Śaṁbhu in the first line. In characters of about the tenth century.

Alagum.—Stone built into the wall of local temple of Śiva called Gartēśvara.

Year 62

Records an endowment of money for a perpetual lamp and land in the village of Alaguṁma in Rāmaṅga vishaya in favour of the maṭha in the temple of god Garttēśvara by Kāmāṇḍi. Published in Ep. Ind., Vol. XXIX, pp. 44 ff.

Another stone at the same place

23rd year, Chaitra,ba. 13, Sunday.

Indistinct. Mentions Vishṇuvardhana VijayādityadēvaChakravarti, Lōkamahādēvī and Rājarāja and records some gift to the god of Gartta.

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Some letters look like Oriya and Bengali and others Mōḍi. Indifferently engraved. Purport not clear.

Sarapari.—Stone in the wall of Sarēśvara (Mahādēva) temple.

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Damaged. Mentions Sarapadadēva and Īśvarēśvaradēva and also a mālākāra (florist) named Dāmōdara. Below this is engraved another record in letters of smaller size.

Another stone in the wall of the same temple.

Fragmentary. Read : pravardhamāna-vīje-rāyya. In characters of about the fourteenth century.

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Damaged. Purport not clear.

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