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It is interesting to note that Bitfi was the Hoysala sovereign that gave Rimánuja protection. An important event in the career of this sovereign was his conversion from the Jain faith to that of Vishna by the apostle Rimandje who had taken refuge in bis territory from the persecutions of the Chola king, an uncompromising Saiva. This step accompanied by a change in his name to Vishņuvardhana, by which he is principally known, probably took place in about A.D. 1117.17 A8 Bitti's conversion seems to have happened not long after Råmannja left Srirangam on his religious tour, we may roughly assign A.D. 1057-1117 for his management of the temple. The date of the Hoysala king Vishộuvardhana enables us to identify the Kulôttanga referred to in the Köyilolugu with Kulottunga I. In this connection it may also be noted that in an inscription of Bitti, he claims to have defeated Rajendra-Chôļa, who must be identical with Kulottunga I, because the latter called himself by that name in his earlier records. It is nowhere stated who the Obola king that persecuted the Vaishnava teacher was; but as Kôyilolugu makes him the predecessor of Kalottanga I, we may not be wrong to identify him with Virarajendra, whose dates range from A.D. 1052 to 1062,
Hoysala Kings and Ministers. We have now to notice some of the Hoysa!a kings and their ministers that are represented in the Köyilolugu. To a certain Vira-Narasingaraja, the king of the Kanarese people (Kannadiya. rdja) is ascribed the building of one of the mandapas in the temple. Without more details, it is not possible to say if this king is identical with Narasimha II or Narasimha III, both of whom had interfered with the politics of the Cholas. Narasimba Il rescued the Chola king Rajaraja III at Sendamangalam where he was kept as a prisoner by Kô-Peruñjinga. As Virasômêsvara is called the ancle of Rajendra-Chôļa III, it might be inferred that Rajaraja III had married a daughter of Narasimha II, and it was probably this relationship that induced Narasimha II to help the other when overpowered by the Pallava general, Pergūjinga. The establishment of the Hoysala capital at Kannanûr, i.e. Samayavaram in the Trichinopoly distriot, might partly be to help the sinking Ohôļa power from the attacks of the Pandyes and partly also to guard the extended Hoysala dominions. Gangaiyadêre Singaya-Dandanayaka, the secretary of the Hoydala king (Pratápa. chakravartin), is said to have improved or constracted the sacred hall (drogyasdlai) and the covered enclosure (tirunadaimdligas) round the temple. In an inscription of the 23rd year of Virasôméávara, mention is made of a certain Singaņs-Dandanayaka who might probably be identical with the person referred to above. The construction of the thousand-pillared mandapa in the temple was began prior to the time of Jatavarman Sundara-Påņdya I, by a certain Perumaļe-Daşdanayake who was an officer under Kampaya-Dandanayaka. From an inscriptions at Mannargudi in the Tanjore district, we know that Kampaya-Dandanayaka was the minister (pradhani) of Vira 8ômêsvara and that he set up an image of a god in the Kailasanathasvåmin temple at the place in the 26th year of the king. It is interesting to note that another officer of the same king was Appaņņa-Daņdanayaka wbo figures in a record at Tirumaiyam in the Pudukkotai statelo where he is styled as the conqneror of Kana-nada. The Tiruvêndipuram record shows that this general was originally in the employ of Narasimha II.
Koyilolugu Dext registers the fact that Kampaya-Dandanayaka the minister (pradhani) of Pratápachakravartin Ramanatbadêvs descendant in the line of Ballala contributed very largely to the additions and repairs. The mand apa in front of the shrine of Paravabudova, that in front of the goddess and the shrinos of Sudarsana-Perama! and Lakshminarayana, as well as several other minor works, are attributed to him. Certain improvements are also ascribed to the minister's elder brother, Kariyamanikka-Dandanayaks.
11 I have extraoted this from Mr Rioe's Mysore. » No. 97 of tbe Malra Epigraphical Collection for 1897. * Annual Report on Epigrphy for 1907, p. 68.
