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Dharmapuri District
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No. 162
Village
Dharmapuri
Tuluk
Dharmapuri
District
Dharmapuri
Findspot
On the four faces of a pillar built into the floor of a mandapa infront of the Mallikārjuna temple (now in the Madras Museum)
Nolamba-Pallava
Dynasty King
Mahendraraja
Date
Saka 815 (893 A.D.)
Language
and Script
Sanskrit, Kanarese
Contents
Begins with an invocation to the Jinēndras and mentions the rulers of the NolambaPallava vamsa upto Mahendra. It records that two individuals Nidhiyaņņa and Chandiyapņa, sons of a merchant from Srimangala, built a Jaina temple at Tagadūru, The former received from the king, free from all encumbrances, the village Mūlapalli and in his turn made it over to KanakaśēnaSiddhanta-Bhatāra, the pupil of VinayasēnaSiddhanta-Bhațāra of the Pogariya-gana, for repairs, additions, worship etc., in the same temple.
Reference
ARE, 304/1901, Epi. Ind., Vol. X, 1909-10, pp. 54-57.
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