History of Orissa from the Earliest Times to the British Period v1.c30.11

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From Koṇḍapalle Kṛṣṇadevarāya continued his march northwards and arrived at Siṁhāchalam near Vizagapatam. He acquired all the districts of the sea-board, including the hill districts of Nalgonda and Khammamet, at present in the Nizam's dominions. At Siṁhāchalam he is said to have have erected a pillar of victory about which the late Mr. H. Krishna Sastri stated that "there exists even to-day records in Telegu characters written on the basement of the entrance into the Asthāna Maṇḍapa and on a pillar on the verandah round the Lakshmī-Narasimha-Svāmin temple at Siṁhāchalam which relate in unmistakable terms the victories of Kṛṣṇadevarāya, his stay at Siṁhādri and his gifts to the temple.¹ According to the Pārijā-apaharanamu and other Telegu works, Kṛṣṇadevarāya devastated Orissa and burnt the capital Kaṭaka, but there is no epigraphical corroboration for such statements. In 1519 Kṛṣṇadevarāya gave certain villages, which had been granted to him by the Gajapati king, to the temple.