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VELLANGUDI PLATES OF VENKATA I: SAKA-SAMVAT 1520.
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The historical part of the genealogy begins from this Tāta. Pinnama and is as follows:
Tāta-Pinnama
Somidēva
Vira-Raghava
Pinnama, the Lord of Araviți-nagara
Bukka,
md. Ballām bikā
Rama-Raja, md. Lakkambika
Sriranga-Raja, md. Tirumalambikā
Rama-Raja.
Tirumala-Raya, md. Vengalāmba
Venkatādri-Raja.
Sriranga-Rāya.
Venkatapati-dava-Raya, md. 1. Venkatāmbā,
2. Raghavāmbă, 3. Pedobamāmbå, and
4. Kșishnamāmba. The doings of each of these kings are given in the document in some detail. Sömidēva is represented as having taken seven forts from his enemies in a single day (v.7). Pinnama is described as the lord of Araviču, and his son is reported to have established sāļuva Nrisimha firmly on the throne (v. 8). His son Rāma-Raja was a staunch devotee of Vishņu, and through His grace he got over the effects of poison administered to him by his jñātis in the fort of Kandanavõlu durgam, which he had just then taken after defeating Sapada at the head of an army consisting of 70,000 horses and taking from him the Avanigiri durgam, driving off with him Kisapp-U daya (vv. 11 and 12).
Råma-Rāja, the son of Sriranga-Rāya, ruled the country justly, after destroying the enemies of the world (the Masslmans), and was a veritable kalpaka-vsiksha in his munificence. Of the three sons of Sriranga-Rāya, the middle one, Tirumala-Mahārāya, having routed his enemies in battles, was anointed to the throne and like Vishnu, the middle member of the Hindu Trinity, protected the kingdom. This king performed again and again all the mahādānas such as the sarna-tula-purusha and the upadanas in such holy places as Kañchi, Srirangam, eto., and in all important places of pilgrimage and holy tirthas (vv. 20 and 27). His son Sriranga-RĀya, being stationed in Uddagiri, conquered the forts of Kondaridu, Vinikondapura, etc., and began to reign in Penngonda. He had emblems, such as the makara, as signs of royalty. The great gifts which this king made on the occasion of his coronation permanently removed poverty from poor people (vv. 29 and 30). After him succeeded to the throne his brother Venkatapati-déva Mahārāya, also born to the same mother, Vengaļāmbā. Just
1 (This should be the Adavani giri-durga : see above, p. 244.-P. W. T.]
Being the middle one among the sons of Sriranga-Raya, he is compared to Vishņu among the Hindu Trinity,
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