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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
(Vo. 13 and 14.) Just as Rama and Lakshmana (were born) to Dasaratha by his queens Kausalya and the glorious Sumitra, (thus) two brave (but) modest sons, prince Vira-Nrisimha and prince Křishṇaraya, were born to king Nrisimha by his queens Tippaji and Nagala (respectinely).
(16.) The illustrious Vira-Narasimha,-seated on a jewelled throne at Vijayang. gara, surpassing in fame (and) wisdom Nriga, Nala, Nahusha and (all) other (kings) on earth, being voluntarily praised by the Bråbmaņas (and) winning all hearts,-ruled the kingdom from (Rama's) Bridge to (Mount) Sumeru and from the mountain of the east to the western mountain.
(16.) He performed various gifts at the Golden Hall," at the shrine of the holy Vird på kshadeva," at the town of the holy lord of Kalahasti," on Venkatadri," at Kanchi, at Srisaila," at Soņaśaila," at the sacred (city of) Harihara," at Ahohala," at Saṁgama," at Sriranga," at Kumbhaghona," at the sinless tirtha of Mahånandi“ (and) at Nivritti."
(17.) The streams of water (poured out) at copious great gifts of various kinds, which he performed at Gokarņa," at Rama's Bridge, and at all other sacred places in the world, frustrated the eagerness of (Indra) the bearer of the thunderbolt, who was ardently rising to clip the widggor of the mountains, which were immersed in the ocean, that was being dried up by the dust of the hoofs of the troops of his prancing horses.
(18.) He performed (the gifts of) a mundane egg, a wheel of the universe, a pot containing the (five) elements, a jewelled cow, the seven oceans, a tree and a creeper of paradise, a celestial cow of gold, an earth of gold, a horse-chariot of gold, the weight of a man (in gold), a thousand cows, a horse of gold, a (golden vessel called) hemagarbha, an elephant-car of gold, and five ploughs.
• Kanaka-sadas in a synonym of Kanaka-sabh4, 'the Golden Hall,' at the temple of Chidambaram in the South Aroot district
This old name of the Pampapati temple coeurs also in line 20, 30 and 84 of the north face of this inscription.
This town is now the residence of a Zamindar in the North Aroot distriot.
# VenkatAdri,' the bill of Venkata,' is the name of the boly mountain (Tirumalai) near Tirupati in the North Arcot distriot.
• In the Karnal district. # Soputails or Bonachala, the red mountain,'. is the bill of Tiruvannamalai in the South Arcot district.
This town is situated in the Maisur territory on the frontier of Dharwad.
In the Karnal district.
# H. Krishna Bastet, my Kanarese susistant, informs me, that Sangama-tirtha is commonly used as a dorignation of Råmelvara.
- This is the great island temple near Trichinopoly. # In the Tanjore district.
In the Karpal district.
A similar lint of holy places is found in copper-plate grant from Srperumbudur (Hultzach's South Indian Inscriptions, vol. I, p. 88, note 4), which is now in the Madras Museum -
गीवनमनिधिसुवर्णसंधीचाद्रिपर्वतविरिचिपुरेषु वाचाम् ।
बीवावनिमबरपि च कुषधीचे दागानि पीचर पनि नवानि येन । Here Suvarnasangha refer to the Golden Hall at Chidambaram; Virifiobipurs is in the North Aroot district; the remaining localities are mentioned in versea 16 and 17 of the text.
* In the North Kanan district.
# Following a suggestion of Pandit Lakabmapacharya of Bangalore, I sparato pak ha-chhidd-dyattara-Xulifadhara. utkanthitd. Indra's eagerness was frustrated, as the water poured out at the king's donations refilled the coean, which abe dost of his army had dried up, and thus saved the mountains from persecution.
The above list of the sixteen kinds of gifts (shodala ddadni, verse 19 and note 66) agrees with that given in the Mutayapurdņa, a quoted in Dr. Aufrecht's Catalogue Bibliothece Bodloiune, p. 43, and in Hewadri's Ddnakhunda, p. 1881. of the Caloutta edition,
