Page:A Descriptive Catalogue of the Oriental Manuscripts, Vol. 2.djvu/415

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distributed abundance in Charity, placed several Ioscrip- oris on the South, West, North and East Walls of the Karanakar Tondaman ; from that time the place where the Treasure was buried is generally called Gadaram Kundam* Virya Vadengan having conquered the Northerns country returned 10 Teruvallur where he saw all the Cha* rities of Karanakar Tondaman and desired him to fix the Charity in his name as he was ruling instead of him; this he refused saying 4i he could not ;" afterwards the Raja asked him to give to him the Charity of the water of Kamal A fay* tm where the cattle drank at noon time, to which he would not asrree, thereupon the Raja was highly enraged and caused the head of Karanakar Tondaman to be taken off. When the Rajah returned from the Northward he brought with him the Images of Vigneswar Durgd and Mahishasura Mardhani and placed them in me Devalam, wherein they remain to this day. I also took a complete copy of the Kamal Alaya Ma* hdtmam of Teruvallur*, an account of these Rajahs is parti- cularly given in the Kyfeyat. A I thereafter went to Dipamgaddi a Village five miles. West, where formerly during the Government of Chitta* rasu and Puvarasu the Jain Rajahs built a Devalam, with seven courts and walls and set up an Image, and peopled or founded the Gramam and established fes* tivals, &c. While it was so, on a certain day the Jain people in- ending to make a Procession in the Village, lighted ma- ny Flambeaus and went into the Village ; but the neigh- bouring Palligars came with their followers, attacked them, raised a great disturbance, extinguished the Lamps; from that time the Village has been generally called by the name of Dipam Guddu Afterwards in the Salivahan Sakam year 1522 in the Cycle year Plavah a certain Jain SanyasH named Ma- nibhadra, finding this Ancient Temple at Dipam Gud~ di in ruins, reared anew and smaller one, built about twen-