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VEMAVARAM GRANT OF ALLAYA-VEMA REDDI.
fish-tribe hide in the water, the snakes enter their holes, the cobras lark in covert, the cattle go with grass in their mouths, the lord of elephants enters the river.
(V. 19.) Allaya's (son) Vēma gave to the god) Markandoyogvara a choice bell without peer, made of good bell-metal, containing twelve thousand palikas.
(V. 20.) “ Vighnen [Ganapati] is affected with mada (rutting iohor, or passion); Skanda again is bahs-mukha [many-faced, or deceitful] ; this Bhairava forsooth is unclothed, shameless" thus reflecting upon his sons' condition, Markaņdoya-Mahesrara appoints as monarch of the enrth the lord Véma, who is faultless, a votary of his, lofty of mind, heroio, dovoted to the worship of Siva.
(V. 21.) King Vira, the younger brother of this [Vēma), as Dhananjaya [Arjuna) was the younger brother of Dharma's son [Yudhishthira), is a magnificent monarch, bountiful, enjoying the world's delights), brilliant in majesty, a Bhima in battlo, a warrior unique in the world.
(V. 22.) Alla got king Vēma wedded to the daughter of a son of Kitaya's (son) king Vēmaya, the daughter of prince Kata, the daughter's daughter of king Harihara who ruled the four oceans, the fair lady bearing the latter's name, Hariharambi, together with the Fortone of his kingdom.
(V. 23.) King Alla's (son) lord Vira wedded a daughter of Kitaya's (son) king Véma, ronowned under the name of Anitalli, ar the Lotus-eyed (Vishạn) wedded Kamals.
(V. 24.) King Vēma deigned to grant to Brāhmans an excellent fief, fully supplied with food, on the bank of the Tolyabhāga.
(V. 25.) Making the two villages of Vedurupika and Pinamahendrada into one, and calling it after his own name Allada-Reddi-Vēmavaram, king Voms
(V. 26.) In the fortunate Saka (year) measured by "flavours" (six], "elements" [five] and "Visvas” (thirteen), in the cyclic year Ananda, on the lunar day when the new moon of Jyrishtha was first seen, a Monday, during a holy eclipse of the sun, Allaya's (son) king Vēma joyfully bestowed on the excellent Brāhmaps this village on the bank of the Tulyabhagi, abounding in orops, most brilliant :
(V. 27.) Having groves of cocoanat-palms, areca-trees, jack-treen, mangoes, and plantain, Jaden with fruit; full of all crops, such ae white rice, sugar-cano, paddy, sesam, chick-pea, and kidney-bean;
(V. 28.) Together with the cultivators, with tho (rights of enjoyment, with the sight sowers,' with pleasant fruit-trees, enduring for as long as the moon and san, Associated with ubu odant money, grain, and fees;
(V. 29.) Which like the ocean is maintained by great sages with voices like cuckoos, who recite in one part logic, in another part Tantra, in one place Vedānta, in another grammar.
(V. 30.) May the Brāhman village (agrahāra) between the blent Sapta-Godåvara and the Tulyabhaga, the pious foundation of king Vēma, prosper with its splendid orope for as long as the moon, as the stars, as the sun.
(V. 31.) The Bräbmnpa brilliant in virtues who hold shares (ir it) are here onomeratedall those in whose case the number of their shares is not mentioned are bolders of one sharo each.
Under the figure of a forest-fre is described the effect of Vēma's pratapa (hout, or majesty) upon neighbouring peoples. The "hogo" are perbape the dynasty of Vijayanagar, who maintained the Chilakyus' device of bror, the "tonder sprouts are the Pallavas; the "fish-tribe " are the Pandym, whose device ww pair of fabes, or perhaps the Matsya dynasty (see above, vol. V, p. 107). The " lord of elephanto" (gajandith patih) is of course the Gajapati of Orion. The other "topical allusions are obecare to me. On the custom of taking gi .nto the mouth matoken of submission see R. Pissbel, Iss Gras beisses (Sileungsberichte d. kgl. pressa Akad. d. Wimmenschafton, 1908, XXIII, p. 468.)
1 See above, vol. XIII, p. 19, note.
