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1550, for the merit of his mother, granted Kadumanapura and Sūlibele to Suttūr Chennaya Dēva's disciple Namaśivāya Dēva.⁸ Sugaṭūr Tim-mapa Gauḍa-ayya, the Agent for the affairs of Rāma Rāja Tirumala Rāja Mahā-arasu, in A.D. 1559, "in order that merit might be to his father, mother, guru and daiva," made a grant of Simasandra of the Nañjiguḷi village, belonging to the Sugaṭūr-sīme, for the god Mallikārjuna of Nañjiguḷi.⁹ Māraya Gauḍa, the second son of the great Avaṭi-nāḍ Prabhu Moleya Bayiraya Gauḍa, in A. D. 1575, granted (lands ?) in order that his father Moleya Baira Gauḍa, his mother Hiriya Bāyi, and his forefathers might obtain merit, for the god Śrīkaṇṭhēśvara.¹ Hariapa of the palace, son of Nārāyaṇappayya of the gold treasury, in order that his mother Timmammā, might " obtain a permanent abode in Brahma-lōka ", purchased the village of Heggaḍitikoppa in A. D. 1583, and gave it as a gift for the god Viśvanātha of the Maleyāḷa maṭha of Amarēndrapuri-śrīpāda at Tirthahaḷḷi.² The village of Upparahaḷḷi which was a royal gift from Śrīraṅga Rāya, to Tirumale Penugoṇḍe, was granted by the donor for the offerings of the local god, in order that his father Hiriya-Bōrappa Gauḍa and his guru might obtain merit.³ In A. D.