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HAMPE INSCRIPTION OF KRISHNARAYA.
न्तु विचित्रा या कुवलयमप्यते । [64]. खिरा सेवा वापी गगनयमिमोलेभंगवतो
भवत्वाचन्द्रार्थव्यथिततपसो भूरियमसः । यदीये मातीयं मरदमलचन्द्रांश्चधवला सुराचां समाजी विकटतटपटे मिचरियो। वापीतः निकट यः पादपमारोपयिष्यति [व] |
याता स पचपातकयुक्तः खलु दुस्तरे निरये ॥ " [66]. पचैव
तवामित्र पातकानि खप्यति चाह मठा मठे थे । येभ्यन्तरे मूढधियो रवन्धां दास्यन्धनार्या वसति नार्याः ॥ " - [67]. प्रशस्ता देवसंलापपूर्व्वदत्ताञ्जयेन या ।
64. विचिता मुख्यमन्दादा) यांचा [सुदेश सताभियम् ] [88]देवदत्तया चरदत्तेन परिचता ।
वापी (प्रमस्तिका रम्या द्वेष विचिता
नोदपोटि [60]. ।
Metre, Arya.
Metre, Sikhaript.
[66].
XLII.-HAMPE INSCRIPTION OF KRISHNARAYA, DATED SAKA 1430. BY E. HULTZSCH, PH.D.
The original of this inscription is in the great Siva temple of Pampapati' at the modern village of Hampe, which is situated on the southern bank of the Tungabhadra river and at the north-western extremity of the ruins of Vijayanagara. It is engraved on the south and north faces of a stone tablet, which is set up in front of a mandapa. The south face is badly mutilated at the bottom. The second half of the inscription, which is in fair preservation, was published by Mr. Fleet from a photograph by Dr. Pigou. A rough transcript and paraphrase of the Sanskrit portion and a translation of the Kanarese portion of the inscription had already before appeared in the Asiatic. Researches. I re-edit the whole from an estampage made in 1889.
A second copy of the same inscription is engraved on the north and south faces of another stone tablet, which is set up to the left of the entrance to the Pampâpati temple. This copy is much worn, but helps to ascertain how many verses are lost at the bottom of the south face of the first copy.
Motre, Arya.
• Metre, Indravajra.
se Metre of verses 68 and 69, Sloka (Anushtubb).
No. 13 on the Madras Surooy Map of Hampe.
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Ind. Ant., vol. V, pp. 73ff. The photograph was published in the Inscriptions in Dharwar and. Mysore, issued by Mr. (now Sir) T. C. Hope in 1866, No. 32; and reproduced by the Aroh Survey of Western India in Pali, Sanskrit, and Old Canaress Inscriptione (1878), No. 115.
Vol. XX, pp. 25 and 39 (fourth inscription), and p. 34 (twelfth inooription).
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