The Aravidu Dynasty of Vijayanagara, Vol. I v1.c21.121

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10. The vicinity of Chandragiri to Tirupati fostered the special devotion of the Emperor for that holy place. Several of his inscriptions and grants of those years are more or less connected with Tirupati and the god Venkatesvara. On August 18th, 1598, Venkata, while at Tirupati, made a grant of a village to several Brahmans and re-named it Tirumalambapuram ⁴. In the same year he made the Padmaneri grant in the presence of the god Venkatesa whom he invokes in the beginning of the grant ⁵; the same is seen in the Dalavay Agraharam Plates ⁶. Then a Tamil inscription around the Varadaraja shrine in the first prakara of the Srinivasa temple at Tirupati, dated 1606, records a grant by Venkatapati Raya to provide for offerings of rice to the god ⁷.