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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
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13 Adavi tan-råyår Nanga[n]i Nangaiyarkk=&ga=chche14 yda mugamandagam [1*] id=aliAmaia'kkattåp=&15 đi em mudi mê16 la [11]
TRANSLATION. (Line 1.) Hail! Prosperity! In the third year of the reign) of king VijayaNandivikramavarman - Adavi, the headman of Tiruppalaiyur (near) Perumbalaiyûr in Orrukkattu-kottam, having made a request to (i.e. having obtained the sanetion of) the glorious Ganga king Nergutti Peruman,- (this) Adavi made the mandapa in front of the shrine) for the merit of his mother Nanga[o]i Napgai.
(L. 14.) The feet of him who protects this (gift) without destroying (it), (shall be) on my head.
No. 33.-RANGANATHA INSCRIPTION OF GOPPANA:
SAKA-SAMVAT 1293.
BY E. HULTZBCH, PH.D. In the Guruparamparaprabhava, a modern Tamil work which professes to be based on a Sanskrit poem in 3,000 verses by Tritiya-Brahmatantrasvatantrasvâmin, we are told that, when the Musalmånga had captured Tiruchchirappalli (Trichinopoly), the authorities of the Ranganatha temple on the island of Srirangam near Trichinopoly secretly removed the image of Alagiyamanavalan (Vishnu) to Tirumalai (Tirupati). Subsequently a certain Gopanarayar is stated to have brought the image from Tirumalai to Singapuram near Senji, and thence back to Srirangam, where he reconsecrated the god and his two wives (Lakshmi and the Earth). On this occasion he was praised by the Vaishṇava preceptor Vedantad@sika in the following verse:
मानीयानीलशृङ्गातिरचितजगद्रानादचनाद्रेसञ्चामाराध्य कंचित्समयमथ निहत्योधनुष्कान् तुरुष्कान् । लक्ष्मीमाभ्यामुभाभ्यां सह निजनिलये स्थापयवाना सम्यक्ष- सपर्यामकृत भुषि यशःप्रापणी गोपणार्यः ।
Mr. Venkayya has drawn my attention to another Tamil work, entitled Kóyitolugu, .. "Benefactions to the Temple," which registers the donations made to the Ranganatha temple at Srirangam from the earliest times. The authorities on which the statements of this book are based are not mentioned by the author. Among other facts it ohronicles the same events which have been quoted from the Guruparamparå, with fuller details. It states that in SakaSamovat 1149 expired, the Akshaya-samvatsara, the Muhammadans (Tulukkar) oocupied the Tond sismandalam. When news reached the temple authorities at Sriraogam that the enemies had passed Samayapuram (9 miles north-north-east of Trichinopoly). tbey removed the image of Alagiyamanavåļa-Perumaļ to Tirunåråyapapuram (Mêlukôte in the Mysore State)
1 Read -aliydmai.
See South Ind. Inscr. Vol. III. p. 92 and note 1, • Turushka-Yasan-ddigal. • Madras edition of Kaliyuga 1990, the Virodhi-sarhvatare, p. 124 f. Ibid. p. 127f. • Ibid. p. 129.
Rend yatga • Read T .
. This must be an error for 1249,
