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(52) "That Singa-Rāja had the two lines of fortification round this city built, and holding the office of paṭṭana-svāmī by order of the god Nāyinār, so that all the people could see, for the god's tirumāna had maṇṭapas made before and behind the temple (hindaṇa-mundaṇa-bhāgada maṇṭapa), had a pond constructed called after Gopa Rāja the Gopa-samudra, had a palace built for Gopa Rāja to the west of that pond, and to the right of the god, Singa-Rājā's palace; and that he might at sunrise and at evening twilight bathe at both times, and have a room for domestic sacrifice, from the threshold of which he might look to the spire of Varada