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(2) ‘ (He) covered with fine gold the enclosure, the gate-towers, halls and buildings surrounding the shrine of pure gold . . . covered with splendid gold the altar on which offerings abound . . . covered with pure gold and adorned with numerous strings of large round pearls the sacred car temple . . . was pleased to build a long temple street of mansions covered with jewels and called it after his royal prosperous name, and made numberless splendid insignia, beginning with dishes cut off fine gold, together with a kalpa (tree) of pure gold.'—(Inscrip. at Tirumalavadi, no. 79, lines 14-23, *H.S.I. I.*, Vol. III, p. 185.)