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Sunday. The moon at suurise was in the nakshatra Mila. Every Śravana sakla 12 is the day of the ceremony known as Vishnoh pavitr-ārōpanam (see Kielhorn's list in the Indian Antiquary, 1897, p. 181, and Swamikannu Pillai's Indian Chronology, p. 50); so the day might perhaps be appropriately called a maha-tithi. But it was not one of those noted by S. Pillai as specially a maha-dvādasi by reason of the tithi (the 12th) being current at sunrise on two successive days."
A considerable number of places are mentioned. The village granted, Katrapaḍi. Chiṇatimmapuram ("Little Timma's Town in Katrapadu "), also known as Krishnañjamasamudram, is described in 11. 102-109 as lying in the rajya of Padaviḍu, in the Topḍaimanḍalam, as forming part of the Vadapuryambi-naḍu, and as being an ornament of the Palavür-kōṭṭam; it was situate in the pattu of Parandarami and in the sima of Ponneri, and lay east of Vaḍratangalam, south-east of Reṭṭagunta, south of Nangamangalam, west of Karigēri, north-west of Brahmavaram, north of Kagayanallur, and north-east of Dharapaḍaviḍu. Most of these places can still be traced, with little change of names. Padaviḍu, more correctly Padaividu, is now Paḍavēḍu, in the Polar taluka of North Arcot District (cf. above, vol. IV, p. 138 n.; South Indian Inscriptions, vol. I, p. 82). On the kōṭṭam of Paluvur or Paduvår see above, vol. IV, pp. 138, 180, 271; it is enumerated as no. 19 in the old list of koṭṭams of the Tonḍaimandalam given in C. P. Brown's Three Treatises on Mirasi Right, p. 56, according to which it included Arkaḍu-naḍu (Arcot) and Sengupram. Paradarāmi, as it is now called, is in lat. 13° 4', long, 79° 2′, in the Chittür Town Sub-district, Chittür taluka, North Arcot, and is numbered in the Survey as 159; see also above, vol. IV, p. 271 and note. Reṭṭagunta (survey no. 132), now a small village attached to Besavapalle, and Nangamangalam (survey no. 126) are both in the Chittur taluka of Katpadi Sub-district. Karigēri (survey no. 14), Brahmapuram (no. 15), Kangayanellür (no. 16), and Dharapaḍavēḍu-to give them their modern names-are all in the Gudiyattam taluka of Kaṭpāḍi Sub-district. The site of Katrapāḍi-Chipatimmapuram may therefore be conjecturally fixed as about 12° 59′ N. by 79° 12' E.
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Third plate: second side.
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Sri
Bana-sakti-kalamb-emdu-ganite Saka-vatsare | Prama
99 dich-abhidhō varsha punye Sravani (pa)-namani (I) [39*] Pakshe valakshe punyāyām dvåda
100 sya(sya)m cha maha-tithau śri-Venkatesa-pād-āba (b)ja-sannidhan śrĕyasām nidhau (1) [40]
101 Nana-sakh-abhidha-gotra-sütrobhyaḥ sastra-vittaya vikhyātēbhyo vi(dvi)jāti102 bhys veda-vi[d]bhyo visoshataḥ (ID [41] Padaviḍu-surajya-stham Tomḍamamḍala-madhya
103 gam Vaḍapuryyambi-nāḍu-stham
Palavür-kōṭṭa-bhushanam () [42*]
10% khyātam Ponnĕri-simni
agni-di
105 k-[s]thitam | (ID [43] Dakshinam Namgamam gallat
paschimam gramad-Bramha
106 var-abhikhyad-v[*] yavim disam-asritam | () [44] Grāmat-Kagayanallurōr
uttarasyāṁ
Paramdarami-pat[t*]an cha
cha Sri-Vaḍratamgala-pracht-stham
1 Katpadi represents the Kätrapadu of our record.
* Metre: Slōka (Anushtubh); the same in vv. 40-80.
Reṭṭagumt Karigēryyas-cha
From the plates.
