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Tyagaraja, the Siva god of Tiruvarur, the pre-eminent devotee of Vishnu, made an incorporal soant from the top of the Gipura : "Now, I have closed the rule of the kings olthacishtamily."
श्रीरामानुजविवुधार्य चोदितः सन्प्रहादोत्सुकनहरियथा हिरण्यम् । विव्याथ शितिपतिमायुधेन कण्ठे
निद्राणं निशि निशितेन वेङ्कटेशः ॥ Thu gol Venkataśvara, baing urged by the libation of the learnel Rimin aja, stabbed the king with awapoa when he was as!esp and thus rasembled Narasimha who, out of love for Prahlada, destroyel Hiranya(-kalips).
तद्धतिप्रदलितकण्ठ" नालरन्ध्रानिःसीमौषधिमनभेद दुर्निवारात् । उत्तस्थीक्रिमिपटलं यतस्तदासी.
त्तस्याप्तं क्रिमिगलनाम पापलक्ष्म ।। Numerous worms sprang from the hole of the wound which was made in the Chola's neck by the weapon of Venkatávara and which could not be cured by many drugs anl charms. On that account he bore the name Krimi kantha as a mark of his sins.
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चोलेशं ज्वलितचिताग्निदग्धगात्रम् | स ज्ञात्वा फणिकृत होमतो व्यरंसी
तधाहार कपरिचारकागमार्थी ।। From swells risen from the sacrificial fire, which were like to those of barning hair, Rimanuja knew that the Chola's body was burnt in the blazing fire of a funeral file. Then he finished the snake sacrifice and waited for a disciple who was to bring the news of the Chola's death.
आयातायतिपतिराकलय्य शिष्याचोलेशं वृषगिरिनाथहतिविद्धम् । निष्ठचूतक्रिमिपटलागलापरासु
प्रीतोदान्मनुमणि पूर्णपात्रमस्मै ।। The disciple cane an 1 related how the Lord of the mount Vșisha (i. e., Vêukateśvara) wounded the Chola king and how the Chol a king died of the growth of worms in his neck. The great saze please i to hear the3tiling, initiated him in the Dvayamantra as a Půrnapitra.64
श्रीनारायणपुरिसंपात्मजाख्यं कल्याणाभिध सरसीतटे मुकुन्दम् । उत्पाद्याकृत सदशोत्तरद्विचत्वा
रिवास्किकरानिकराञ्चितं यतीन्द्रः ।। Afterwards Ramanuja made an image of Visbņu called Selvappillai, instituted it on the banks of the tank called Kalyaņa at Tirunâ rayanapuram and left fifty-two of his disciples to worship it there. विबुधार्य' R. D.C.
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