1838.] 



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No. 155. Dated in the 15th year of Fira-pandiya-dever, two villa- 

 gei's gave a yearly present, in money, for a particular service in a fane. 



No. 156. Gift, by a merchant, to maintain a constant light in a fane. 



No. 157. Dated in the 22d year of Vira-pandiya-dever ; two vil- 

 lagers gave some land to Brahmans. 



No. 158. Dated in the 8th year of Sundara-pcindiya-dever ; some 

 villagers engage to give annually a portion of grain, to a fane. 



No. 159. Dated in the 4th year of Vira-rajendra-dever & giii to 

 maintain a light in the fane of Utlamesvarer. 



No. 160. Gift of a village, free of tax, to the people belonging to 

 it, by a ruler; a part of whose prefatory title only is legible. 



No. 161. Dated in the 7th year of Vira-pandiya-dever gift of money 

 to a Brahman ; who in consequence engaged for himself and his suc- 

 cessors, to represent the donor in the services of the fane. 



No. 162. (In the Telugu language) copy of an inscription on cop- 

 per. Dated in Sal. Sac. 1579 : commemorates a gift of land for culti- 

 vation to a Brahman named Faradaiyengar, from one named Massa- 

 garmi-varu. 



No. 163. (In the Canarese language). Dated in Sal. Sac. 1684, 

 (A. D. 1752) the contents of an inscription on copper in possession of 

 certain official persons (whose names are mentioned) under Sri-crishna- 

 raja-udiyar oi Mysore of the race of Pravuda deva rayer. The pur- 

 port is to commemorate a gift of land to a fane, which was purchased 

 by two persons, whose names are specified; together with the sura 

 which each one contributed. 



No. 164. Copy of a letter to Hyder Ali from Srinivasaiyah. This 

 letter consists of revenue details, relative to villages mentioned, and 

 specifies sums paid (or payable) into the Nabob's treasury. It is 

 written in the Canarese language. 



No. 165. Dated in the 3d year of Fira-dever. It commemorates 

 a renunciation of taxation, on the looms of weavers, the amount of 

 taxation to go to the fane of Amaravadangesvara-svami, of old Pariyur* 



No. 166. Incomplete, the sense breaking off abruptly; but it con- 

 tains the title, Svasta-sriman Pratapa Chacraverti-Bhosala-Bhuja-Fala- 

 Fira-Fallala-dever, and the name of Pariyur of the Conjeveram coun- 

 try, and seems to intimate a gift by C hettiyappen-udiyar a leading 

 man among the Fallala chiefs. (These, from other documents, it is 

 known governed parts of the said country before its subjugation by 

 Crishna-rayer of Fijayanagaram). 



