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lY.— On the Inscription near the Varaha Swami Temple, at 

 Mamallaipuram or the Seven Pagodas, toith a transcript 

 and translation. 



The above-mentioned inscription is cut in a niche, on the face 

 of the rock against which the modern pagoda is built. The 

 eastern side of the building abuts on the niche, about one- 

 fourth of which is in consequence covered by the wall, and 

 a considerable portion of the writing is thereby hidden from 

 view. The circumstances under which the transcript was 

 made, will be found in the Proceedings of the Committee of 

 the Literary Society of the 6th July, 1844, at the end of this 

 No. Three copies of the inscription were made by three 

 different parties, which were collated by Tdndavardyq Mu- 

 daliar, the learned Principal Sudder Ameen of Chingleput , 

 who also supplied a Telugu paraphrase of the whole, by the 

 aid of which the present translation has been prepared. 



Swasti Sri! 



In the 9th andu of 'Koppara-kesari-varmd [also called] Udaiyar SriRdjen- 

 dra Devar, who having taken the whole Irattaippddi seven lacks and half, 

 having intimidated Ahawa-Malla in battle amid the pitfal [cuppam] of his 

 army, seized upon his elephants and horses, and performed lustrations of 

 victory, when he deigned to sit upon his throne ;— the citizens of Janand- 

 thaptura which is 3Idmalla})ura the chief city of Amurnad in Amurkoia in 

 the prosperous Ch6lamandala?n, ( Sdzjamandalam ) and we the inhabitants 

 of Perilam, do record that the eastern boundary of the land which we 

 have granted for Alwar ( Azjvar )* in the temple of Parameswara Mdhd- 

 vardha Vishnu in our village, inclusive of the land formerly held free of 

 tax, as devaddnam, lies west of Sickutticheri — its southern boundary is the 



* This Alwar is still worshipped by the Vaishnava Sect under the name of Bhuta, in 

 the following invocation : 



So er° (jf S> ifr $ o«?Sn> $o 



"I adore Bhuta who from a portion of Vishnu's Club, was born in a blue lotus at 

 Mallapur on the sea-shore, under the sign of the Balance in the constellation of the 

 jJolphin," 



