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(2) ' Kṛishṇarāja-uḍayar, having created Chāmarāja-nagara, created the Chāmarājeśvara temple (devālaya), together with its precincts (prākāra), gopura (gateway) adorned with golden kalaśas and tower (vimāna),—set up the great (mahā) liṅga under the name of Chāmarājeśvara, and in the shrine (garbha-gṛiha) to his left set up the goddess named Kempa-Nañjamāba, and in the shrine to his right the goddess Chāmuṇḍeśvarī,—and at the main entrance (mahādvāra) on the east set up a gopura, on the colonnade (kaisāleyalli), to the south the ancient images (purātana-vigraha), on the colonnade to the west a row of liṅgas forming the thousand (sahasra) liṅgas and on the colonnade to the north twenty-five pleasing statues (līlāmūrti, *cf.* dhyāna-mūrti)—and on the south-west side building a separate temple (maṇḍapa), set up the god Nārāyaṇa together with Lakshmī.'—(*Ep. Carnat.*, Vol. iv, Chāmarājnagar Taluq, no. 86 ; Transl., p. 11, line 4 f. ; Roman Text, p. 18, line 8 f.)