1847.] 



froin the posterity ofYadu. 



tions. While he received and trusted in RamamijacJiar^ya he 

 with great devotion, protected many Vishnu temples, and was a 

 T^ishnu-ba1cti{voi2iYy of Vishnu), This same said Vishnu-verddhana- 

 raya by his wife named Lacshmi, whose face was like the lotus 

 flower, her eyes like the Kammsam flower (or kuvali flower) her 

 lips like coral, her teeth like pearls, her neck like the chanJc, her hair 

 like the cloud-rain, who was possessed of other excellent qualities, 

 being like Lacshmi herself, even by this female named Lacshmi he 

 had a son named Narasingha, who was reared with great care and 

 attention {literally " every day with an increase of stature") ; and, 

 after his reaching his seventh year, he was taught all manner of 

 learning, by the direction of Vishnu-verddhana-raya who acquired 

 great fame. 



The son of Vishnu-verddhana-raya named 

 5. Narasingha. ^_ . , ^ • i i j • 



ISarasingfia-raya^ was anointed and crowneci m 



Talicad; and, in a degree surpassing his father, with great skill (or 

 wisdom) was in veracity like IIarisckand?*a, in celebrity like Nala-ma- 

 ha-rdya in kingly munificence like Parasu-rama, in anger like Na- 

 rasingha, in gifts like Carna, in patience like Bhumi-devi ; and in this 

 way with great justice (or equity, niti) he held in his hand Talicad 

 and other portions of territory, and protected Congu and Carnataca ; 

 these two kingdoms ; receiving also tribute from Drdvida-desa ; 

 banishing the wicked, and protecting the good : protecting the divine 

 Bralimq>ns : performing many charities, and making many dona- 

 tions of land, in the time of his ruling****f he extended his power as 

 far as the sea of mel-turai (the west-coast) and so governed the 

 kingdom. 



The detail of the gifts of land by Narasingha. He established 

 the temple of Sri-hesavasmmi in Sorna-varam village belonging to 

 Nirkunda-nadu, and he relinquished land for the ornaments and 



worship of that god. In the Saca year 1071, in 

 ^*uS-9^^^' year, in Magha-sutta-iriyodasi, on Tues- 



day, in Rohini-nacshetra in sign of the Zodiac Can- 

 cer, being crowned, he made the following donations: — he made 

 forty-six presents of cows to as many individuals ; he gave land to 

 the extent of 300 cawnies in Pasi-vidyam in the lower district, and 

 100 cawnies to the south-west of the tank beneath Maliyanda ; he 

 gave 26 cawnies beneath the tank named Pulai; he gave 25 cawnies 



* Narasingha seems to have had an extended rule. His chief town was Talicadu, and 

 he protected Congu and Carnata receiving tribute from Dravida; which seems, in this 

 place, to designate the modern Carnatic, 

 t A small chasm in the Manuscript. 



