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Vikrama year 12, Vibhava, Uttarāyaṇa-Sankrānti, mentions first the Mahāmaņdaleśvara Ballaya-Chola Mahārāja who was ruling the Sindavadi-one-thousand province and whose prasasti begins with the words Charaṇa saroruha etc, then it mentions the Mahāmandaleśvara Chikarasa of the Mahābali race whose prasasti, begins with the words Jagattrayabhivandita etc. and next the Mahāsāmanta-Chandarasa, Barmmarasa and Revarasa of Kondakunde, whose prasasti begins with the words ari-durdhara, etc., seems to record the grant of a land.
P. 59 (603). Do, in Vatteluttu, on a boulder in the Irattaipottai rock at Eruvadi, Tinnevelly dist. states that the image below which the inscription is engraved) is the work of Ajjanandi.
P. 91. List of Inscriptions copied in 1916 :
(276). Inscription in Tamil. On the east face of the boulder containing Jain images at Tirakkol (Wandiwash tāluq, North Arcot dist.), of the Chola king (Parakesarivarman) dated in the third year, registers a gift of sheep for ghee to the Jain temple (palli) at Tandapuram in Ponnur nādu, a subdivision of VenkunraKottam, by Eranandi alias Naratonga-Pallavaraiyan who was a native of Nelveli in Nelveli-nādu, a subdivision of Tenkurai Panaiyur-nādu in Sola-mandalam.
(277). Do, on the west face of the same boulder of the Chola king Räjakesarivarma, dated in the 22nd year ; registers a gift to Gangasurapperumpalli at Rā(jendra)puram.
P. 92 (278). Do, on the west face of the same boulder registers a gift of gold for a lamp.
(279). Do, on a rock to the east of the same boulder of Parakesarivarman dated in the 12th year registers a gift of paddy to Kanakavirasittadigal mentions Sembiyan Sembottiladanor, son of Videlvidugu Sembottilādanār alias Ganaperumān.
P. 94. Photographs :
(411). Jain image in a temple outside the village, Kammarchodu.
Pp. 112-113. Cavern at Eruvādi containing a squatting Jain figure; mention of Ajjanandi. The inscription is in the Vațțeluttu characters of about the 8th century A.D. (see page 59, inscription No. 603). Reference to Ajjanandi in the Tamil work Jivakachintamani. Reference to a Jain hermitage at Vedal headed by a lady teacher.
Pp. 133-134. Jainism in the Bellary district. An image of the Jain Tirthankara Vardhamāna at Kammarachodu-Kondakundānvaya and the village Kondakundi.
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