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South Indian Inscriptions

 
202

Do.,                 do

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Śaka 1547, Kshaya, Kārttika 15, Vṛiśchika śu. 7, Thursday, Śadaiyam=1626 A. D., November 16, Thursday ; the day of the month is 17, and not 15, ∙01, ∙75. See No. 201 above.

Do.

Registers a poliyūṭṭu gift, probably of land, by Alagiya-Śīyan who is described as a dēśāntari and as the Śrīkāriyam officer of Tirumaṅgai-Ālvār. Refers to the Divyaprabandham of Tirumaṅgai-Ālvār. The characters are very faint and indistinct.

 

203

Do.,                 do.

 

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Śaka 1547, Kshaya, Vṛiśchika ba. 5; Monday, Pūśam= 1626 A. D., November 27, Monday, f.d.t. ∙11 ; ∙24. See No. 201 above.

Do.

Registers a gift of land as Tirunāmattukkāṇi to the deity. The other details of the gift cannot be made out as the engraving is faint and illegible.

204

Do.,                 do.

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Do.

Highly damaged and illegible.

205

Do., proper left jamb at the western entrance into the same maṇḍapa.

…. ….

Śaka 1570, Sarvadhārin, Mithuna śu. 5, Thursday, Maghā= 1648 A. D., June 15, Thursday, ∙66 ; ∙77.

Do.

Records a poliyūṭṭu gift probably of money for specified offerings to the god Iraṅganāthayyan, son of Āditya-bhaṭṭar Tiruvanantālvār of Śiriyaveṇmaṇi (?).

206

Do.,     do., below No. 205 above

Vijayanagara [Devarāya II], son of Vijayēśvara

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Sanskrit, Grantha

Damaged. Mentions the ruling king Dēvarāya, son of Vijayēśvara. Refers of Śāḷuva as the son of Guṇḍa and Māḍāmbikā and the grandson of Maṁgu.

207

Do.,     do., below No. 205 above

….

….

Śaka 1413, Virōdhikṛit, Phālguṇa śu. 10,       Monday. Irregular.

Kannaḍa

Registers a gift of four villages, viz. Kōramaṅgala, Ariyamaṅgalapaṭṭi and two others (names not clear), as sarvamānya to the god for feeding 20 Brāhmaṇas daily at Śrīraṅga. The donor’s name is lost.

208 Do., proper right jamb at the same place …. …. …. Tamil

Beginning lost. Highly damaged. Contains a list of provisions made for worship in the temple.

209 Do., north wall, top tier facing Śēnaimudaliyār’s  shrine. Vijayanagara Achyutarāya-mahārāya

Śaka 1[45]6 Jaya, …., Tuesday, …., Śravaṇa.

Tamil, Nāgarī Damaged and illegible. Mentions Tuḷuva Veṅgaḷappa-nāyaka.
210

Do., Mēṭṭu-Nāchchiyār shrine, inner wall.

Chōḷa Kulōttuṅgachōḷadēva

42nd year, Kaṭaka 21, śu. Saturday, Śōdi, = 1111 A. D. The day of the month was 20 (July 15), Saturday; the tithi was 7 ; ∙12,. ∙73.

Tamil

Fragmentary and built in at places. Seems to record a gift of land, purchased for the purpose, to the god, by Vaṇḍālañchēri-Uḍaiyān Veḷḷāḷan Ānai ….alias Vāṇa[kō]vaṛaiyan of Tirunaraiyūr included in Kulōttuṅgachōḷa-vaḷanāḍu, having assembled the Peruṅguri-sabhā of the brahmadēya village Arindigai-chchaturvēdimaṅgalam in the temple of the Tiru kkuruṅguḍi-Ālvān. The gift seems to have been intended for meeting the expenses of the sacred bath of the deity on the day of ēkādaśi. Another fragment close to this and dated in the 32nd year of the king also mentions the same donor and seems to refer to a similar donation by him. Two more frag mentary inscriptions are on stones built into the steps of this shrine.


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