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svara given to him, he seems to have been proficient in music. His name was perpetuated by the institation of a service named after him in the temple of Alagiya-Nāyaṇār at Tiruvāmāttūr in the South Arcot District,' and by the village Sattampāļi in the same district being known after him as Sömappa-Dannäyaka-chaturvēdimangalam.
His son Gandaragūļi Māraya-Nayaka, according to our inscription, was directly responsible for the defeat and capture of Venrumaņkonda Samburvarāya, for which he received Annamangalapparru as kāns from the king. He is given the title Aliyā-aran-alitta' i.e., destroyer of indestructible fortress, evidently for taking the impregnable fortress of Rājagambhiranmalai. He made gifts in the name of his father at Sättampadis and Peruvaļūr, both in the South Arcot District. He also figures as donor in an inscription from Sattravēdu in the Chittoor District. The title 'Gandaragūļi' assumed by him was also borne by a Sambuvarāya chief. There seems to have been a matha in existence at Madam itself named after Gandaragūļi Māraya-Nayakkar. His brother was Dharani-Appar figuring in a record from Peruvalür.10
The territorial division Annamangalap-paru was situated in the district of Palkuņra-kõttam, 11 in the sub-division Singapura-valanādu included in Jayangondasola-mandalam.It included the modern villages of Dēvanūr" and Gangapuram" in the Ginji taluk of the South Arcot District and may be taken as roughly comprising a portion of this taluk.
Räjagambhiraymalai has been identified with Padaividu in the North Arcot District. Atti in the Cheyyar taluk and Dēvikäpuram" in the Arni division were situated close to it and Vada-Mahādēvamangalams in the Polur taluk was situated within its jurisdiction.
The gopura in the second präkära of the Tatākapurisvara temple at Madam is said in our inscriptions to have been built by Gandaragüli Māraya-Nayaka in Saka 1285, Söbhakrit; but in an inscription dated in the next year Krodhi, corresponding to Saka 1286, the walls of this prokāra are stated to have been raised by Tirunallikiļān Nallakamban Tennavarāyan of lựangādu. A record without date in the same gopura mentions that this structure and the doorway were the gifts of Tūņāņdār Arruļár.20 Probably this refers to the renovation or the completion of the gopura referred to in our inscriptions.
TEXTO 1 Svasti [ 1 Sriman Mahāmaņdalēsvaran Harirāya-vibhātan [bhā]shaikkut-tappuvarāyara
gandan Müvarāyara-gan. 2 dan pūrva-paschima samudrādhipan Sri-Vira-Bokkan-Udaiyar kumārar Srimatu Kampaņa
Udaiyar mah[ä*]pra3 dhāni Sõ[maya)-Daņņāyakkar kumāran Srimatu Gandaragūļi Māraya-Nāyakkar Venruman
konda- Sambuvarāya· No. 221 of 1931-32.
* No. 45 of 1922. No. 236 of 1928.
• No. 255 of 1934-35. No. 236 of 1928.
No. 513 of 1937-38. No. 391 of 1911.
No. 239 of 1901. Nu. 928 of 1919 dated in Saka 1286, Sobhakrit.
10 No. 511 of 1937-38. 11 No. 297 and 303 of 1928-29.
12 No. 230 of 1919. U No. 297 of 1928-29.
14 No. 515 of 1937-38. 15 As., hep. on Epy. for 1998, para. 33.
16 No. 298 of 1912. 17 No. 352 of 1912.
18 No 54 of 1933-34. 19 No. 271 of 1919.
* No. 269 of 1919. 1 No. 267 of 1919.
