The Aravidu Dynasty of Vijayanagara, Vol. I v1.c19.14

v1.c19.14

Krishnappa Nayaka had founded two towns: one to the West of Tinnevelly named Kadaiyam-Krishnapuram, and another to the East of Palamcotta called Krishnapuram after his own name. To this he seems to have devoted greater attention; for he built there a Saiva temple, a Vaishnava temple and many agraharas: he dug out a teppakulam and furnished the town with all customary appurtenances ³. The Krishnapuram plates of Sadasiva give some more details; by his care "was built a temple at Krishnapura", they say, "which was encircled by a wall of the shape of the pranava and surmounted a broad and lofty tower. It has a large ranga-mandapa raised on a series of beautiful stone pillars and adorned with rows of spouts. He built a car like the Mandara mountain, and also broad roads round the temple, for the propitiation of the god Vishnu set up there" ⁴. Then in 1563 he made a gift of six villages and some lands to the same temple of Vishnu, (venerated there under the name of Tiruvengalanatha), 'for the merit of his father' ⁵. Two years earlier he had presented a piece of land to the Nelliyappar temple at Tinnevelly ⁶.