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secord side of the first and the first side of the third, or last, plate, and the plates are numbered 1, 2, and 3 on their written sides, the number 8 being marked on the first side of the second plate. The writing is very well preserved. The inscription is in Nandi-nigari characters, and the language is partly Sanskrit and partly Kannada; the Kannada portion occupies only a few lines at the end, that is, 11. 68-73. The chief peonliarity of this document is that the visarga is omitted in a very large number of instances where it is required and, as in all Vijayanagara grants, the anusuara serves as a substitute for the varga-panchamas.
The grant was made by Mallikarjuns, who is also called Immadi Döva-Raya and Immadi Praudha-bhupatil in the record. His genealogy is given as follows:
Sangama
Bukka-Råga
Harihara (II)
Déva-Raya (I)
Vijaya-Raya
Déva-Raya (II)
Mallikarjuna alias Immaļi Déva-Raya. In the Saka year 1884, expressed by bhi=1, guna=3, ashta=8 and veda=4, which correaponded to the cyclic year Chitrabbinu, on the full moon tithi of the bright half of the month Vaisakha, at the spored moment of a vyatipd ta, the king Mallikarjuna aliae Immadi DivaRäys or Immadi Praudha-bhtipati made the grant to the god Bri-Ranganaths of the village of Uttamanohéri-kiliytir, in the presence of the god Chandramaali; the object of the grant being that by its virtue it should secure for the king victory, long life and success in the conquest of the four quarters. It was made at the request of Chammaţi Somaya, who bore the birudas Antembara-ganda and Manne-gajapati. From the income of the village the following items of expenditure had to be met for each parivana daily, vis. :-rice, 10 mānakas; ghee, 3 månakas; plantain fraits, 10; cocongta, 2; green gram, kudupa; and fruits and vegetables.
At the above rato six (complete) dishes of food should be daily offered to the god together with a hundred and twenty apapa cakes. A water-shed should be maintained perpetually in front of the temple. Again, areca nats, 50; betel leaves, 100; and chandm; ghanasdra (pachchai-karpuram), 10 panas in weight; kastari (musk), 2 panas in weight; sandal, 6 palas, costing 5 panas ; Kurikuma (-kësara=saffron) and camphor (=pachchai-karpuram), 5 panus in value; and hima-jalam (Tamil, Pani-nir=rose-water) with kastüri (mixed in it), costing 3 panas; should te used for daily offerings to the god Ranganaths. Besides these arrangements were made for three grand feedings, one in the month of Phålguna and the other two in Dhands: the following articles were to be used on those occasions :-rice, 5 khāris; green gram) 1 dröna; ghee, 1 adhaka; and fruits and vegetables.
Again, the king ordered that sixty Vaishộavas should be fed daily in the Ramānnja-kata, and the amount required for this item of expenditure was also to be derived from the village granted. The village Uttamacheri-Kisiyür belonged, it is stated, to the Chirichițăm-palli (a very corrupt form of Tiruchchirappalli) rajya.
1 Three inscriptions, vis., Er. Carn. Sr. 107, Mysore Dt., and No. 23 of 1905 and No. 161 of 1906 of the Madras Epigraphist's collection, probably refer to Mallikarjona by the name Vijayaraya (II). See A. S. R. for 1907-4.
