Indian Antiquary Vol 02

SR No.: 032494
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jas Burgess
Publisher: Swati Publications
Publication Year: 1984
Total Pages: 428
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 20 MB

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JUNE, 1873.]
ARCHÆOLOGY OF BELÅRI DISTRICT.
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eye in the forehead of Pallavabhupati, and he has certain other qualifications. In the reign of Nata Bhimudu and other potent kings born in the family of the said Kalikaludu, the earth had been prosperous for a long time. Somabhupati, son of Duhutta Narayana Råmablupati of the same family, who is the emblem of Supreme Being himself, subdued many neighbouring kings and begata son named Prince Gangadharabhupati by his wife Surâmbika. Gangadharabhupati, devoting him. self to the god and Brahmans, begat a son, Bhakit- bhupati, who resembles Parijata (the name given to all the flowers resembling in scent the jessamine), which exhales a sweet scent over all the earth, and who is a votary of Siva, by his wife Irugamba, who is the daughter of Kåmabhupati of the lunar brace, and sister of Vahupati. Bhakitbhupati, deserving as he is to be adored by many kings, wore the badges or the honourable distinctive marks of " Gandabherunda," which is fit to repel all lions of foes (i.e. kings' foes), and of "Rayavesiya bhujanga," which is fit to compel all kings to leave off their haughtiness and be submissive, and so he continued to reign. One day, while he was proceeding on his royal tour, he happened to meet on a hill a Brahman hermit named Visvanadhudu, who is well versed in Vedas, and finding him to be zealously engaged in divine con templation, and, as such, an emblem of Śiva,
saluted him. He remained there for some time with devoutness.
On Monday, the 15th of the waxing moon of Kartika, Salivahana Saka 1277, he gave with pleasure to the said Visvanadhudu, who is steadfast in devotion and a great hermit of the Kausika gotra, the village of Kadavakolanu, which is replete with complete comfort and every blessing and with the eight sources of pleasure.
The village is bounded on the east by a large ant-hill, on the south-east by Chintajodupallam, on the south by a Vagu or watercourse, on the south-west by Madetopuna Nandikambbam, on the most by Doni Marn, on the north by a Kunta or pond, on the north-east by the boundaries of Bommada and Makkala.
The said king having given to the aforesaid worthy Brahman the village of Kadavakolanu, within the above-mentioned notable limits, thought the descendants of his family would be meritori. ous. May this śåsana, inscribed to notify the gift of the village called Kadavakolanu, endure until the end of time!
As bestowing the gift is common to all kings, this deserves to be preserved by you for ever. Ramachandrulavaru will frequently pray all kings that commit anything to affect this gift. - Proceedings of the Madras Government, Public Department, 7th April 1873.
ARCHÆOLOGY OF BELÅRI DISTRICT.
(From the Belári District Manual, by J. Kelsall, M.0.8.) Toe finest specimens of native architecture are presenting hunting-scenes and incidents in the to be seen at Hampi, the site of the ancient city of Ramayana. The four centre pillars are of a kind Vijyanagar. These ruins are on the south bank of black marble handsomely carved. The flooring of the Tangabadra river, about 36 miles from Be- of the temple, originally large slabs of stone, has låri, and cover a space of nearly nine square miles. been torn up and utterly ruined by persons in At Kamlapur, two miles from Hampi, an old tem- search of treasure which is supposed to be buried ple has been converted into a bangal, and this both here and in other parts of the ruins. The is probably the best place to stop at when visiting use of another covered building close by, with the ruins. Many of the buildings are now Bo numerous underground passages, has not been destroyed that it is difficult to say what they were ascertained. It also is covered with basso-rilievos, originally meant for, but the massive style of in one of which a lion is represented. At a little architecture, and the huge stones that have been distance is the building generally known as the employed in their construction, at once attract " Elephant stables," and there seems no reason to attention. Close to Kamlapar there is a fine doubt that it was used for this purpose. Two stone aqueduct, and a building which has at some other buildings, which with the elephant stables time or other been a bath. The use of the arch form roughly three sides of a square, are said to in the doorways, and the embellishments used in have been the concert-hall and the council-room. decorating the inner rooms, show that the design Both, but especially the latter, have been very fine of this building was considerably modified by the buildings. Musalmans, even if it was not constructed by | Not far off are the remains of the Zenana, surthem altogether. A little to the south of this is a rounded by a high wall now in a very dangerous very fine temple, of which the outer and inner condition, and beyond this again the arena where walls are covered with spirited basso-riliovos re- tigers, elephants, and others animals were pitted