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years, when the last of the race was expelled or superseded by the 

 progenitors of the present Bomma Raja zamindar. Salva 'Sesa- 

 chala Reddi, the then head of the family being without heirs, sti- 

 pulated only that the annual festivals at Narayanavaram and Tri- 

 pati should be conducted in the name of the Salvas, since which 

 time the new family have assumed the titles of 'Sriman Rajadhi- 

 raja — Salva-katari-maha-raja, &c, and with the insignia of the 

 Salva family, have maintained undisturbed the rules and institu- 

 tions established by their predecessors. 



The latest mention of the Salvas that we have met with occurs 

 in a copper 'sasanam at Tirunnamalei in South Arcot, in which 

 Krishna Raya of Bijanagar and the Salva Nayaka, having built a 

 mantapam of 1000 pillars at Kanchipuram, (Conjeveram) resolve 

 now to erect a similar one at Arunachalam (or Tirunnamalei) on a 

 piece of land, purchased from the inhabitants for 500 pons. This 

 endowment, witnessed by the inhabitants of all the kdttams and 

 nadus of Tondamandalam, is dated S. S. 1435 or A. D. 1513. 



The traditions relative to the prevalence of the Chalukya influ- 

 ence in this tract, are confirmed by inscriptions extant in the temple 

 of Agastiswara swami in Narayanavaram, the principal town of the 

 district. One of these records a grant to the temple, of the village 

 of Vikrama-tangal alias Chalukya-puram, by Naga-deva of Velur- 

 pakkam, who had received it with others in reward for services ren- 

 dered to the general of the Chalukya forces in an engagement with 

 the enemy then occupying the Potappinadu (or Kalastri) country. 

 This was made in S. S. 826, in the 11th year of the reign of Kulot- 

 tunga Chdla (probably Rajendra Chola.) 



Another inscription in the temple of Para'sara in the same town, 

 records the gift of the village of Kandyan by one Pallava Raya 

 who had received it from Nagadeva the lord of Potappinadu in the 

 13th year of Uttama Chola or S. S. 1027. 



A third in the temple of Agastiswara Swami contains a royal 

 grant of certain lands to the temple, in the 6th year of Tribhuvana 

 Malla Deva with the titles of Sarvaloka'sraya, the ornament of 



