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13 gotra and the Apastamba-sutra. On one occasion when he had gone to Tirupati on a pilgrimage, he found in the central shrine of the temple of Venkatesa an additional bronze image, and learnt on enquiry that it was the image of god Ranga. natha of Srirangam, which, after having been taken away from that temple shortly before the Turushkas entered it, to Tiru naravanapuram (Melkote) by way of Jyotishkudi, Tirumalirun- cholai (Alagarkoyil), Kolikkodu (Calicut), and Punganur, had been kept there for some time and had been finally brought to Tirupati (Tirumala). On hearing this account from the priests, Gonnanna induced them to permit him to remove the image to his capital and keep it in puja there, until such time as the Mussalmans could he driven out of Srirangam. With the consent of the priests he took it, and housed it temporarily with puja in the beautiful rock-cut shrine on the hill at Singavaram, a suburb of Senji. The chief of the Mussalman garrison that had been left behind at Srirangam, stayed for some time in the temple of Ranganatha, but finding his health suffering by his stay in the island, he removed his quarters to Samayavaram (Kannanur), situated at a distance of six miles to the north, which he fortified with the stones obtained by demolishing one of the outer enclosures of Srirangam. At this time, Singappi- ran, a Kaniyala-Brahmana of an adjoining village secured a post in the service of the Muhammadan chief, through the influence of a Hindu dancing-girl of Srirangam, who had entered into intimacy with that Mussalman solely with the object of saving the temple from destruction, and was continuing to discharge his duties apparently faithfully to. his new master. As soon as the news of the establishment of. a powerful kingdom at Anegundi (Vijayanagara), the conquest of the Tondai-mandalam by the representative of that kingdom, and the esablishment of a gubernatorial seat at Senji presided over by a Vaishnava - Brahmana, reached the people of Srirangam, Tirumanattun-nambi, the son of Singappiran, despatched Uttama-nambi, ous of the sthalattar to Senji to inform Goppanarya that he would be communicating to the