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The first and foremost among the benefactors associated with the Ananda Nilaya Vimana was Jatavarman Sundara Pandya I. The whole of the peninsula right down from the Godavari was under his sovereignty and his prasasti represents his achievements. After his triumphs over the Cholas, Pallavas, Telugu Pallavas and the Kakatiyas, he performed Virabhishekam for himself at Kanchi. He also defeated the Andhra King as well as the king of Orissa. He had the Ananda Nilaya Vimana plated with gold in 1260 A.D. and the inscription referring to the gold guilding runs as, " (O ! King) Sundra-Pandyadeva ' the brilliancy (of your body excels) the lustre issued by the golden vase (fixed by you over the temple). He did a similar service at Srirangam and Chidambaram also.
Then comes Saluva Mangideva Maharaja, a general under Kumara Kampana Udaiyar who helped him in his expeditions against the Sambuvarayas and the Musalmans of Madura, fixed a golden Sikhara (vase) on the Vimana (dome) of the Tirumala deva (Tiruvengalanatha) on Saturday the 10th (lunar) day of bright fortnight in Ashada in the (cyclic) year Vikari, corresponding to the victorious Saka year 1281 (6-7-1359 A.D).
The third among the galaxy of benefactors to be associated with the renovation of the Ananda Nilaya Vimana was Amatyasekhara Mallana who was a minister under Devaraya II. He governed the Chandragiri-rajya and completed the construction of Tirumani-mantapam and made arrangements for Naivedyam and Nityadeepam for the Lord of the seven Hills. Besides these, he renovated the Ananda Nilaya Vimana in 1417 A.D.
The fourth and the most important king to be associated with the renovation of this Vimana was Sri Krishna Devaraya. Inspite of the heavy administrative reform and the number of campaigns which Sri Krishna Devaraya himself had to lead, he found time to pay as many as seven visits to Tirupati in the course of nine years and on each occasion he made presents worthy of his status and "his visits to Tirupati seem to be intended more or less as thanks-giving whenever he actually achieved something very satisfactory." He was the only monarch who paid the maximum number of visits to this famous shrine at Tirumala. One would really wonder being pre-occupied with problems of the state, how he could find time, but the, fact that Sri Venkatesvara was the venerated patron God of Sri Krishnadevaraya explains his frequent visits to Tirumala.' And' this is further strengthened by the fact that he dedicated his MUKTAMALYADA to Lord Venkatesa. Among his seven visits to Tirupati Sri Krishnadevaraya's fifth visit made on the 10th day of Pushya in the year Dhatu, Saka 1438 (2-1-1517 A.D.) was at the end of his Kalinga campaign and he presented this time a costly necklace and pendant along with 30,000 gold varahas for guilding of the Ananda Nilaya Vimana and he also made other endowments.
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