Indian Antiquary Vol 40

Author(s): Richard Carnac Temple, Devadatta Ramkrishna Bhandarkar
Publisher: Swati Publications

Page 151

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KOYILOLUGE
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looked after the templo affairs. His arrogance and grow mismanagement led Viruppaņņa-Udaiya to interfere. The following verse states that a certain Gopaņa Timmarája was sent from Vijayanagar to dopose Vedirya and to invest Meynilaiyitta Uttamanambi with powers to manage the temple affairs which he performed satisfactorily till Saka 1340, Vikrama-Samvatsara.
श्रीमच्छकाम्देनवलोकभाजिविकारिणीयुत्तमनम्मिनांना पेपार्वभौधरितिम्मरागोविताबभईसमवंतयामहीत् ॥
The next Vijayanagara king represented in the book under review is Bhüpati-Udaiyar. The copper image of Garuda set up by . Chola king in former times having been mutilated, a fresh one was made in its place. This fact is recorded in the following stanza:
aquest titan eftert i f ra fagh ATGT aferent stall The shrine of Sri-Rama, which was also bailt by a Chola king, was now repaired and the image of Sadikkadutts-Nachchiyar was placed in it. A kitchen was newly constracted to this sbrine. Repairs of those parts of the temple which had suffered damage at the hands of the iconoclasts as well as certain additions are attributed to Chakraraya who appears to bave executed them at the instance of the king. In honour of the king's birthday a festival was also conducted in the temple on the day when Panarvasa was the nakshatra, the month Tai and the year Manmatha. It is said that on this occasion the goddess was taken round the town in a car. The cyclic year Manmatha fell in Saka 1337. Two kings are known by the name of Bhủpati Udaiyar. One of them was the son of Bakka IT, while the other was the father of Dêvarîya II. As the dates of both range from Saka 1381 to 1848, it is not easy to say which of them is referred to in the Köyilolugu.
In Saka 1343 expired, Plava-Samvatsara, Ellainilaiyitta Uttamana nbi went to Vijayanagar, pleased Gejavējțai Pratápadêvarêya, received several birudas from him, secured for his younger brother Chakraraya, the seal of the great Raya (i.e., the Vijayanagara king), performed a tour of pilgrimage to important centres of worship, retarned to Srfraugam and resided there sorutinizing the accounts relating to the villages granted to the temple, until the cyclic year Promodata corresponding to Saka 1345. The king here referred to is Devaraya II, son of Viravijaya alias Vijaya Bbûpati. Most of his inscriptions furnish him with the title who witnessed the elephant hunt.' As the dates of this sovereign range from Saka 1343 to 1868, Uttamanambi's visit to the court of Vijayanagat appears to have taken place soon after his coronation,
In Saka 1947, Bhupalaraya was the Vijayanagara sovereign. This king must be identical with Brigiri Bhúpála wbose copper-plate grant dated in the same year is published in Epigraphia Indica, Vol. VIII, pp. 306 ff.
Troubles with the Saļuvas. Tirumalain átba Uttamanambi went to Vijayanagar in Saka 1366, Raktákshi-Samvatsara and in Saks 1374 Prajapati during the reign of Praudhadevaraya Mallikarjuna and received a grant of 22 villages for the temple. He effected certain repairs, constructed the hundred-pillared manda pa and bathed the god with 1,000 pots of water. At the instance of the Vijayanagara officer (Dangayaka), the same person built a shrine to Hanomat. A certain Kamparâja was sent in Saka 1380, Pramadhi, to Trichinopoly to put down the power of Baļuva Tirumalairâja who appears to have tried to assert bis independence and in Saks 1883 expired, Chitrabhánu, he executed extensive gilding work at a cost of 1,600 palam of gold. About the same time Jannaya-Nayaka set up on one of the gopuras, the image of the dodrapalakas which had been mutilated by the Muhammadans. Two years after this, Sálava Tirumalairaja contended that he must be left in undisturbed possession of the Trichinopoly district and this was the cause of quarrel between him and Kamparaja. The people of the Southern and Northern banks of the Kûvêri) the members of the sabhd (village Assembly), all the country-men and roots gathered together, destroyed the bimai and lived for 12 years i.e., from Saks 2380-1392) in the bundred-pillared mandape of the temple and outside of