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success against the Muslims by erecting a pillar of vic-
tory on the banks of the Tamraparṇi.¹6
Regarding Mangu's service to his gods and reli-
gion we have some information. After his defeat of the
Sultan he straight went to Srirangam "round which
the Kāvēri flows, with her lotuses, as if in worship of
Ranganatha."
"17 He bathed in the Kāvēri and gave away
a thousand Sālagrāmas besides making all the "sixteen
different gifts." He also presented eight agraharas,
well-formed clean, and every way worthy to be present-
ed to the temple, as if to signify his conquest of the
eight directions.¹8 Besides these, he made a large endow-
ment of sixty-thousand madas of gold to the temple."1⁹
The Venkateswara temple at Tirupati was also the
recipient of rich gifts from the General. Mangu made
a golden kalasam and fixed it over the vimanam of
the shrine of Sri Venkateswara.
Mangu assumed high sounding titles and some of
these are: Gūrjariyatta vipāta, Sāluvēndra, Katārika-
saluva2⁰ (the last two being common to all Sāluvas),
Maharāja, Gandarguli, Dakshina Suratrāna Tribhu-
vanarāya Sthapanacārya Sambuvarāyasthāpanāçārya, 21
and Srirangasthāpanāçārya.22
16. Ramabhyudayam.
17. Ibid.
18. Both the Sāluvābhyudayam and Rāmabhyudayam mention this,
but we lack epigraphical confirmation.
19. The Jaimini Bharatamu.
20. Saluvabhyudayam (Sources: p. 31).
21. An inscription from Villiyanur dated Saka 1292 (1370 A.D.).
The title Mahāmandalēṣwara is also found in the inscription. A.R.E.,
for 1936-37, p. 80.
22. Saluvābhyudayam (Sources: p. 31).
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62
MADHURAVIJAYAM
success against the Muslims by erecting a pillar of vic-
tory on the banks of the Tamraparṇi.¹6
Regarding Mangu's service to his gods and reli-
gion we have some information. After his defeat of the
Sultan he straight went to Srirangam "round which
the Kāvēri flows, with her lotuses, as if in worship of
Ranganatha."
"17 He bathed in the Kāvēri and gave away
a thousand Sālagrāmas besides making all the "sixteen
different gifts." He also presented eight agraharas,
well-formed clean, and every way worthy to be present-
ed to the temple, as if to signify his conquest of the
eight directions.¹8 Besides these, he made a large endow-
ment of sixty-thousand madas of gold to the temple."1⁹
The Venkateswara temple at Tirupati was also the
recipient of rich gifts from the General. Mangu made
a golden kalasam and fixed it over the vimanam of
the shrine of Sri Venkateswara.
Mangu assumed high sounding titles and some of
these are: Gūrjariyatta vipāta, Sāluvēndra, Katārika-
saluva2⁰ (the last two being common to all Sāluvas),
Maharāja, Gandarguli, Dakshina Suratrāna Tribhu-
vanarāya Sthapanacārya Sambuvarāyasthāpanāçārya, 21
and Srirangasthāpanāçārya.22
16. Ramabhyudayam.
17. Ibid.
18. Both the Sāluvābhyudayam and Rāmabhyudayam mention this,
but we lack epigraphical confirmation.
19. The Jaimini Bharatamu.
20. Saluvabhyudayam (Sources: p. 31).
21. An inscription from Villiyanur dated Saka 1292 (1370 A.D.).
The title Mahāmandalēṣwara is also found in the inscription. A.R.E.,
for 1936-37, p. 80.
22. Saluvābhyudayam (Sources: p. 31).