The Aravidu Dynasty of Vijayanagara, Vol. I v1.c32.32

v1.c32.32

Ramanuja returned from Mysore on the death of Kulottunga I, which seems to have occurred in 1118³. The Kulotunga Cholan Ula relates that, during Ramanuja's second stay in the Chola country, Kulottunga II (1123-1146), 'a hater of the god Vishnu', removed the Govinda Raja temple at Chidambaram from the premises of the great Siva temple, and ordered the statue of Vishnu to be thrown into the ocean, 'his original shrine'. Then Ramanuja and his disciples either brought back the same idol or made a new one, and enshrined it in a new temple at Tirupati, with a formal and solemn consecration ceremony⁴.