1847.] 



Kongu-desa-rajahal. 



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(the monarch whose word is truth). His younger 

 27. Gunaluttuma. , , ^ -7 i i • 



brother was Gunaluttuma-raya ; who, being crown- 

 ed in Dalavan-puram^ continued with great equity the distribution 

 of the charitable appointments of his predecessors, in the Congu 

 and Carnataca countries. He was on friendly terms with other 

 kings, and so governed his kingdom. His younger brother was 

 Raja-malla-deva-raya, who being crowned in Dalavan-puram., and 

 possessing the insignia of all kings, when he came to make war 



with the Pandiya king, the latter was defeated ; 



and Malla-deva^ acquired the fame of being with- 

 out equal in power among any other kings. His elder brother he 

 placed (as governor) in Scanda-pura, and so governed the kingdom. 

 The manner of the charitable benefactions made by his elder brother 



named Gundluttama-raya, was the following S. 

 S. S^acMOO, A. D. Saca,Somhavasu 800,Vihari year (33d of the cycle) 



Ani month (June — July) on Guru-varam (Thurs- 

 day or Friday) on the full moon day, in the Punarvasu lunar mansion, 

 (the 7th) he gave in full possession, free of all taxes, the village of 

 Vira-halli to the officiating hierophant of the temple of the Jaina^. god 

 named F'ishnu-gohalliyam^who was named Sashi-pushana-maha-muni^ 

 the disciple of Agora Soma-hhagavanta., the disciple of Desa Soma 

 hhagavanta, the disciple of Bara Buddha-hhagavanta, the disciple of 

 Congana-Culesvara-hhagavanta, the gift was for the purpose of sacri- 

 fices to ceremonial anointings, and other charities. 



Subsequently in the island between the two branches of the Ca- 

 veri river, where Gautama had once rendered homage to Pachama 

 Hanghana, JSTayaca ( Vishnu), but which place now had become 

 overrun with wood, one named Tirumalaiya built a temple to Pan- 

 gana-nayaca and surrounded it with a petty wall ; calling the name 

 of the place Sri~rangha-puram ; and to the westward of the same, 

 he erected a small building with a consecrated image of Vishnu in it, 

 to which he affixed his own name, calling it Tirumala-deva ; and he 

 himself thenceforward officiated as hierophant in 

 ^'893—/^^' ^^^^ these temples. This was in Saca year 



(816) eight hundred and sixteen, in Ananta year 

 in the 7th day of the bright half of the moon's increase in Vyasi 

 month on Sucra-vdram (or Friday.) 



* With Malla-deva this dynasty of kings appears to have closed, in or about, S. S. 

 800, A. D. 877—8 ; and it would seem as though he had gone back to the Jaina credence. 

 The foundation of a Temple only, by one Tirumala, occurs in S. S. 816, A. D. 893—4. Of 

 course from connected circumstances, this is not Sri-rangham the island near Trichino- 

 poly, but Sri-rangham (the island) the site of the modern Seringapatam in Mysore : the 

 town however not having been founded till long afterwards. 



