This and the next-following seven inscriptions record grants to Jvarakhaṇḍeśvarasvāmin of Velūr, i.e., to the Vellore Temple, which is nowadays called Jalakaṇṭheśvara.North Arcot Manual, p. 189.Jvarakaṇḍeśvara in five inscriptions, Jvarakaṇṭheśvara in two others and Jvarakaṇḍheśvara in one of them. The Sanskrit original of these various forms seems to have been Jvarakhaṇḍeśvara. Jvarakhaṇḍa, “the destroyer of fever,” would be a synonym of Jvarahara, which is applied to Śiva in the name of one of the Kāñchīpuram temples.Lists of Antiquities, Vol. I, p. 180.
The inscriptions Nos. 43 to 46 are dated on the same day of the Akshaya year, which was current after the expiration of the Śaka year 1488, and during the reign of Sadāśivadeva-mahārāyar. They record grants which were made to the Vellore Temple at the request of Śiṉṉa-Bommu-nāyaka of Velūr by the mahāmaṇḍaleśvara Tirumalaiyadeva-mahārāja, also called Tirumalai-rājayaṉ, (the younger brother of) Rāmarāja, with the consent of Sadāśiva-deva-mahārāyar.
The historical results obtained from these four inscriptions are:—
1. That Sadāśiva-deva of Vijayanagara was still alive in 1566-67 A.D., i.e., ten years after the latest grant mentioned in my second paper on the Karṇāṭa Dynasty.Ind. Ant., Vol. XIII, p. 154.
2. That, after the death of his elder brother Rāma, Tirumala-rāja of KarṇāṭaLoc. cit., p. 155.Vijayanagara as his sovereign and submitted to the title of mahāmaṇḍaleśvara.
3. The Śiṉṉa-Bommu-nāyaka of the four inscriptions is perhaps identical with “Bommi Reddi or Naidu,” to whom tradition assigns the foundation of the Vellore Temple.North Arcot Manual, p. 188. In the Velai-mānagar-charitram (printed at Velūr in the Dhātu year, i.e., A.D. 1876) he is called Bommaiya-Reḍḍiyār.
The Viḷāpāka grant of Veṅkaṭa I. of Karṇāṭa dated Śaka 1523 mentions a certain Liṅga-bhūpāla, son of Velūri-Bomma-nṛipati and grandson of Vīrappa-nāyaka- kshmāpa.Ind. Ant., Vol. XIII, p. 127.Śiṉṉa-Bommu-nāyaka of Velūr. From the title “prince”, which the Viḷāpāka grant attributes to Bomma and to his father and son, it follows that his family were petty chiefs under the kings of Karṇāṭa, who were again nominally dependent on the kings of Vijayanagara.
The inscription No. 43, as mentioned in Sewell's Lists of Antiquities,Aṟappakkam, where it is still found.
śubhamastu svasti
śrīsadā
śivadevamahārāyar· p
thivirājyam paṇṇi Aru
ḷāniṉṟa cakābdaM
8N meṟcellāni
Akṣayasa ṁvaTssarattu ku
mpanāyaṟṟu Aparapakṣa
ttu dvādaśi saumyavāsa
rattu nāḷ śrīmaNmahāma
ṇḍaleśvararāmarājatiru
malaiyadevamahārājā
vukku velūr ciṉṉapo
mmunāyakkar viṇṇap
pañceykaiyil tiruma
lairājayaṉ sadāśivadeva
mahārāyar· pātattile
viṇṇappañceytu ⌈
velūr jvarakaṇḍeśvara
svāmikku Aṃgaraṃgavai
bhavattukku viṭuvitta grā
mam Aṟappakkam
Let there be prosperity! Hail! After Śiṉṉa-Bommu-nāyaka (of) Velūr had made a petition to the illustrious mahāmaṇḍaleśvara Rāmarāja-Tirumalaiya-deva-mahārāja,— Tirumalai-rājayaṉ, having made a petition at the feet of Sadāśiva-deva-mahārāyar, gave the village of Aṟappakkam to (the temple of) Jvarakaṇḍeśvara-svāmin (at) Velūr for (providing) all kinds of enjoyments,Aṅgaraṅgavaibhavam is a synonym of aṅgaraṅgavaibhogam, which occurs in Nos. 47 and 48 and means, according to Winslow, “all worldly enjoyments.”Kumbha of the Akshaya-saṁvatsara, which was current after the Śaka year 1488 (had passed), while the illustrious Sadāśiva-deva-mahārāyar was pleased to rule the earth.
(Line 21.) “Of a gift and protection, protection is more meritorious than a gift; by a gift one obtains (only) heaven, by protection the eternal abode.”
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