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(5) "This inscripion (V. S. I. I. vol. II. no. 90) records the gifts, by the priest Īśāna Śiva Paṇḍita, of 8 gilt copper-pots........... A ninth pot was presented by Pavana-Pidāran...........The gilt copper-pots were all intended to be used as pinnacles (Stūpikkuḍam, para 2). Nine of them were presented, of which one is said to have been for the temple of the Lord (para 9) and another for the temple of the Lord Śrī-Rājarājeśvara mudaiyār (para 11). The other seven appear to have been intended as pinnacles for the shrines of the regents of the eight quarters. The regents are eight in number, viz., Indra, Agni, Yama, Nirṛiti, Varuṇa, Vāyu, Soma, and Iśāna,........ The shrine of Indra, who is the regent of the East, seems to have been in the second gopura for which five pinnacles had apparently been provided by the king himself."