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V. 14. He held in his arm, as a bracelet, the earth, which could not be supported even by the primeval Tortoise, the Serpent Lord, the Mountains and the Elephants.
[Vv. 15-24 describe his exploits and fame, which spread to all the eight quarters of the globe, his beauty and his charity.]
SRIRANGAM PLATES OF DEVARAYA II.
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Vv. 25-31. The king granted the three villages of Kulamanikyanallur alias Nachchikrurchchi, comprising 77 velis (of dry land ?) and vēli of nañjai (wet land), Tiruvaramganallur and Ramanarayaṇanallur, all situated on the southern bank of the Kāvēri, in Rajaga mbhira-valanaḍu of Chōla-maṇḍala, and the Trisirappalli-rajya together with the new villages of Kumārakkuḍi and Rājanārāyaṇanallur, situated respectively in the western and eastern divisions of Mala-naḍu, on the northern bank of the Kāvēri.
[Ll. 45 to 49, enumerate in the deśabhisha (i.e. Tamil) the taxes and incomes due from the villages granted to the donee.]
Vv. 32-35. The grant was issued in the Saka year counted by the numerical words rasa (6), ishu (5), Rama (3), and Chandra (1) (i.e., 1358), corresponding to the cyclic year Ananda. On the full moon day of the month of Vaisakha, king Devaraya, at the time of making the celebrated mahādāna gift called Hemavaratha, to Valiyadimai-nilayiṭṭal-Perumāļ Uttamanambi, son of Uttamanambi, the sthanapati of the Srirangam temple who belonged to the Kasyapa-gōtra, the Asvalayana-sutra and the Rig-Vēda.
[Vv. 36-42 contain the praises of Dēvarāja (or Dēvaraya) and a prayer for his long life and increased prosperity and mention the name of the composer Rajasekhara.
[Vv. 43-47. The usual admonitory verses.]
[V. 48. Benediction (by the donee).]
Ll. 91 to 93. Thus was the grant given and signed by the king with his own hand (as) Sri-Virupa-(pa)ksha.
No. 18. THE VAYALUR PILLAR INSCRIPTION OF RAJASIMHA N.
BY H. KRISHNA SASTRI, B.A., RAO BAHADUR, OOTACAMUND.
Vayalur is a small village on the north bank of the river Pålar at its mouth and is situated three miles south of the historic town of Sadras once the chief seat of the powerful Dutch Factory and 22 miles south-east by south of Chingleput on the South-Indian Railway. The village is also reached direct from Madras by the Buckingham Canal and would then be 43 miles due south of it, past Mahabalipuram, the famous "Seven Pagodas" of Pallava antiquities.
The Śiva temple of Vyaghrapurisvara at Vayalür was first examined by the Epigraphical Department, Madras, in 1908 and its lithic records were then completely secured. The earliest of these, from the paleographical and historical points of view, is No. 368 of 1908 which is published for the first time below with a facsimile plate. The other records of Vayalar, which are not quite so interesting as the present one, range in date from the 10th to the 16th Century A.D. and mention the village by its surname Jananathanallur; and the god of the temple also is therein called Tiruppilavayil-uḍaiya-Nayapar, i.e., 'the lord of Tiruppilavayil,' thus supplying the proper name Tiruppilavayil or Tiruppilavayal, i.e., 'the mouth of the sacred cave' of which
1 The meaning of this Tamil attribute is he who established his title as the hereditary servant (of Ranganatha)' and corresponds to the Sanskrit Vamfa-krama-mula-bhritya which occurs in the Lakshmi-Käoy a referred to above.
2 These are registered as Nos. 362 to 368 in Appendix B to the Epigraphical Report for 1909, p. 39 f. From impressions prepared by myself with the help of my friends Messrs. Venkoba Rae and Srinivasa Rao
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