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Rh (1) வேங்கடமும் விண்ணகரும் வெஃகாவுமஃகா த

பூங்கிடங்கில் நீள்கோவல் பொன்னகரும்-நான் கிடத்தும் நின்றானிருந்தான் கிடந்தான் நடந்தான்

6700 coram #Quonii.- Poi. 77. (2) விண்ணகரம் வெஃகாவிரிதிரை நீர் வேங்கடம்

LOGO 600 40 LIT LILC20743204.—Pey. 62. The word Vinnagaram is a corruption of Skt. Vishnu Nagar and it may mean any house of Vishnu. But from the manner in which it is used along with Vengadam, Vehka, Koval, Agaram and Velukkai in he above quotations, it must refer to a particular shrine in the Pallava country or Tondai Nadu. There is only one Vinnagaram in the whole of that country and that is in Conjeeverain. Further, Poigaiyar and Peyalvar were more or less local saints and their peregrinations were confined to Tondai-Nadu and to some of the most renowned shrines in the further south, namely, Srirangam and Kumbakonam in the Choladesam and Tirumalirumsolai and Tirukkottiyur in the Pandyamandalam. For these reasons we are disposed to identify the Vinnagar referred to by these Alvars with the Paramesvara Vinnagar of Tirumangaiyar's hymns. As it is explicitly staetd that the godof this place is in the sitting posture, it cannot refer to Tiru-Vinnagar (Uppiliyappan) another important shrine of the same name in the Tanjore district. According to Dr. Hultzsch the Paramesvara Vinnagaraml was built by the Pallava king Para

1. Mr. S. Krishnasamy Aiyangar finds fault with Dr. Hultzsch for