Epigraphia Indica Vol 07

SR No.: 032561
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: E Hultzsch
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India
Publication Year: 1998
Total Pages: 522
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 23 MB

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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
(VOL. VII.
According to verse 1, Vira-Pandya was prompted to undertake this work by the Jaina priest Lalitakirti, who belonged to the lineage of Panasogel and to the Desigana. The same verse occurs in another Kårkala inscription of Immadi-Bhairarasa of the family of Jinadatta, - apparently one of the successors of Vira-Pandya, - who built the Chaturmukhabasti at Karkala in Baka-Samvat 1508 (expired), the Vyaya year. It follows from this, that the Jaina svåmins of Hanasôge bore the hereditary title Lalitakirti and were the spiritual preceptors of the chiefs of Karkala.
The day on which the image was consecrated fell into the expired) Saka year 1853 (in numerical words, 1.5 f., and in figures, 1. 14 f.), the cyclic year Virðdhikrit. According to Professor Kielhorn's calculation, the date corresponds to Wednesday, the 13th February A.D.1492.
TEXT. 1 श्रीमद्देशोगणे ख्या2 ते पनसोगवलीखरः । 3 योभूललितकी. 4 .ख्यस्तन्मुनींद्रोपदे5 मतः ॥ [१] खस्ति श्रीशकभूपते. 6 स्त्रिशरवींदोर्बिरोध्या7 दिक्वहर्षे फाल्गुनसौ8 म्यवारधवलश्रीहा9 दशीसत्तिथौ । श्रीसोमा. 10 न्वयभैरवेंद्रतनु11 जश्रीवीरपांशिना नि12 प्यि प्रतिमात्र बा13 हुबलिनो जीयाब14 तिष्ठापिता ॥ [२] शकवर्ष 16 १३५१ [*] श्रीपांचराय [*]
TRANSLATION. (Verse 1.) At the advice of that chief of sages, named Lalitakirti, who was the lord of the lineage (avali) of Panasogo, (which arose) in the holy (and) famous Desigana,
(V.2.) Hail! In the (eyelie) year Virodhyadikriti (which corresponded) to (the year measured by) three, the arrows (5), the fires (3) and the moon (1) of the glorious Saka king,
1 This is the moderm Hanandge in the Yedatore taluka of the Mysore district. See Mr. Rice's Ep. Carm. Vol. IV., Introduction, p. 16.
* No. 62 of 1901. Por a very incorrect transcript of this record see Ind. Ant. Vol. V. p. 401. The tithi of the date is the sixth, and not the fifth as the published transcript has it.
1 Thus the medmine of fravana-Belgola and Madabidure have the title Charukirti, and those of Humcha the title Dévèndrskirti.
• Ind. ant. Vol. XXIII. p. 119, No.42. From an inted estampage. Read °सोगावली.' 1 I.o.krit beginning with Vinodhin,' which is an artificial way of expressing Virddhikrit. .I.Saka-Sathvat 1858.