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Avalakkifa), a thousand cocoanuts, tender cocoanuts, and 

 plantains, as also a thousand pattisffc^ of betel leaves and a 

 thousand fowls and sheep were given in sacrifice to the said 

 Mahish^sura with consecration of incense on fire, and of 

 light, &c. Then all the people and the attendants offered 

 prayers to the said Mahishasura giant, when, the said Kundo- 

 dara, having inspired a person, assured (them) that uniformity 

 of system and law should be folio wed by the rulers and the sub- 

 jects ; and on their declaring that they all would act up to the 

 same unanimously, Bhutala Pandya caused fourteen Katta- 

 lekattu and sixteen Kattale rules to be written in the Madhya 

 Mantapa ofNarasimhadevaru deity of the world, whereby the 

 system of Aliya Santana or Nepotism has to prevail thence- 

 forward among the ruling authorities and the subjects, and 

 consecrated the same in the Madhya Mantapa ofAnantecvara 

 Devaru deity of the world. He also declared a curse that 

 the family of such person as shall deviate from these rules, 

 shall become extinct. He also pronounced that Balisavira 

 Brahma and the said Mahishasura are the Adhidevat^s 

 for ■ the said Kattu rule, that the said Narasimha and 

 Anantecvara are Kuladevatas (family deities), and that 

 Brahma, and Kshetrapala in the Pagoda of Anantec- 

 vara, as also the goddess Rakte^vari on the right side of 

 the Narasimha Devaru deity of the world and Kundodara 

 Mahishasura, are Sthanadevatas (local deities) for the 

 eighteen classes of people following the Aliyasantana system 

 in each direction. 



Thus Bhutalap^ndya reigned for twelve years. During 

 the said interval, Bhutalapandya had for the performance 

 of his marriage sent for twelve virgins through Kesavanna 

 and Basavanna of the Jaina caste, whom he called from 

 over the Ghats by sending message to that effect, and 

 having married those virgins called the town Jayantika 

 aforesaid by the name " Barakanyapur" (meaning city of 

 twelve virgins) because twelve virgins were married 

 in that town. On account of these twelve pattaranis twelve 

 Bastis (Jaina temples, vasati), as many numbers of Qiva- 

 laya, Vishnuvalaya, Durgalaya pagodas, as also places for 

 twelve Ganapatis, Naga, Brahma, Kshetrapala, Raktecvari, 

 and Mahishantaya, were built. Then four lakhs of houses 

 (gudimane) having also been erected, a Nagare^vara (deity 



(a) Paddy soaked partly dried, roasted and pounded. 



(b) A cumber of betel leaves folded up and having nuts wrapped up 

 in one of them. 



