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oil. XXVni. KING VITIIALA-DEVA. 179
simha, in the outskirts of the village. And here also, it is
chronicled, IiS,m§,nuja prayed fervently to Lord SrinivS,sa of
Tirupati to put an end to the cruel Parintaka or the Chola king
and heretic, his tormentor, persecutor and the declared enemy of
the Srivaishnava-faith. It would appear that this intense
invocation to the Doity produced its efEect
inasmuch as Ch6la
found a carbuncle—the Icing's evil—forming on the nape of his
neck, festering with worms, and eventually killing him after
much torment. Hence he is known as Krimihantha ChSla, or
v!07-m-necked Ch6]a.
R&m&nuja now left Sfijligrebma and proceeded eastwards
to Tondanur, which seems to
have been then the capital or a
capital outpost of the Hoysala Ballala kings of the Jain
persuasion ruling at Dvsbra-samudra or HalSbid.^ Vithala-
Deva-Raya was the name of the ruling king and he had his
head quarters at the time, at Tondanur." He had a daughter
whom an unclean spirit had taken possession. The king had
called many physicians and magicians to treat her, but it was all
in vain , and he was very grieved. There v/as a good man
in the town by name Tondanur-Nambi, who lived by alms. He
used to frequent the palace, and one day finding the queen, SS,nta|a-D6vi
° in grief, asked her the cause thereof. She explained
that it was due to the condition in which her daughter was
found, who even shamelessly ran about the streets naked, and
did other antic things, all in consequence of the devil which
had entered into her. T. Nambi said :
" Noble Queen, may
I tell you that a great and holy man, by name Sdmslnuja,
has arrived at our town. I have become his disciple ; and
I have learnt that he once treated a similar case to that
of your daughter, and succeeded in delivering a princess
from an evil spirit—a Brahma-rakshas.^ If you will get him
' Vide Rice's Gazetteer of Mysore.
^ Known now as Tonnur, about 16 miles north, of Mysore on the
way to Melukote. Even so late as 1316 A.O. the kings used to retire ta
Tondanur. [Pp : 241-2 Vol. I Rice's " Mysore Gazetteer."]
' See p. 41 Introdi : Eic&'s " Belagola Inscriptions."
* See pages 41, 42.