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On a slab set up on the ruined mound of a jaina temple called 'Jainiammankōil'.
Vijayanagar
Atchyutadeva Mahārāya
Saka 1452 (wrong for 1454) (1532 A.D.).
Tamil
States that the order remitting the jodi and sulavari taxes, issued by the king at the instance of Vaiyappa Nayaka, for offerings and worship to (the Jaina image) NayanarVijaya Nayakar at Sapbai (Jambai), was engraved later in the time of Velur-BommuNāyaka.
ARE, 449/1937-38.
The Jaina temple is in ruins and amidst its debris is lying a mutilated stone image of Bahubali. Nayanar Vijaya Nayakar refers to the image of the Jaina deity. VēlūrBommu Nayaka was wielding authority in this region as the subordinate of VaiyappaNayaka of Gingee.
A copy of this inscription is also engraved at Jambai (ARE, 127/1906), but issued in favour of the Siva temple at that village.
ARE, 1937-38, pt. II, p. 105.
