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The first place where the name of Gore Gangaya Raddivdru 

 is mentioned occurs in the 8th volume of the Local Records, 

 page 81 ; there we find the following passage, whose date 

 corresponds to Sunday, the 28th of December 1287 A.D., 

 Old Style, 



"The prime minister Grore Ray a Grangadevayagaru having 

 erected in honor of his king Maharaja Ambadeva 17 mantapams 

 round the Parasuramesvara temple in Aravuturevulu in 

 Pottapinadu, as well as planted cocoanut trees and dedicated 

 to the deity some freehold land, gave to Brahmans food 

 and choultries at the time of the Makara Sankranti on Friday 

 the 5th of the dark fortnight of the month of Pusya in the 

 year Sarvajit, corresponding to the (expired) Saka year 1209. 

 On this same tablet it is written that he, after having built the 

 village Ambapura near Kadapagudi, transformed it into an 

 agraharam. Yet there is now near Kadapagudi no agraharam 



17 Ambadeva reigned in Bellary. 



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