Epigraphia Indica Vol 12

SR No.: 032566
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Sten Konow
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India
Publication Year: 1913
Total Pages: 464
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 25 MB

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INSCRIPTIONS FROM YEWUR: NOTES BY DR. FLEET.
Mahamandalesvara Lōkādityarasa; and he is described as "born in the Ahihaya race," supreme lord of Mahishmati a best of towns," and "a [moon] to the group of water-lilies of the family which is the lineage of Ayyaṇa." Aud
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Another local Ahihaya pince is mentioned in an inscription at Kammarawaḍi in the same taluka. This record refers itself to the reign of Tribhuvanamalla-(Vikramaditya VI), and is dated in A.D. 1104. It mentions a Mahamandalesvara, apparently named Yanemarasa, whom it styles "supreme lord of Mahishmati a best of towns" and "born in the Ahihaya race." ne koso 105
Still another local prince of evidently the same stock, though he is not actually described as an Ahihaya and as being of the lineage of Ayyana, is mentioned in an inscription at Hire-Madanir, about five miles south-west from Kenibhavi. The record refers itself to the reign of Bhñlokamala-(Someśvara 111), and is dated in A.D. 1129. The prince is the Mahamandalesvara Mallidevarasa, with the titles "supreme lord of Mahishmati a best of towns" and "a full-moon of autumn to the ocean which is the family of Kartavirya."
Another inscription at Ingalige, which refers itself to the time of the Devagiri-Yadava king Singhana and is dated in A.D. 1210, mentions a Mahamandalesvara Vira-Bijjarasa, son of Anegadeva, and styles him "supreme lord of Mahishmati a best of towns" and "born in the Ahihava race."
And still another inscription at Ingalige, which also refers itself to the time of king Singhana and is dated in A.D. 1215, contains an earlier passage, apparently dated in A.D. 1191, which mentions. a Mahamaṇḍalēsvara Bacharasa, with the titles " Mahishmati a best of towns" and "a sun of the Ahihaya family."
supreme lord of
2. The Kirudore river: the Tungabhadra.
In the Ind. Ant., 1901, p. 107, I gave a verse from a Balagami inscription of A.D. 1071 which recites that a saint named Gunagallade va founded temples at Tambigere in the Kōgali country and at Mosalemadu and I showed that these two places are in the Harpanhalli taluka of the Bellary District, Madras. The next verse in the same record (line 37 f.) is noteworthy in connection with verse 57, lines 127-30, of the Yewar inscription B (p. 279 above): it runs thus:
Kirudoreya temka-daḍiyol
Kuruvattiya pempu-vetta Muttürzeḍeyo! [1]
nege Siddhatirtthamam jagam=
ariyal-Gunagallade va-muni nirmmisida [m] ||
1 Elliot MS. Collection, Vol. I, p. 281. There does not seem to be any reference to "the lineage of Ayyana" in this record.
2 I quote this record from an ink-impression.
Elliot MS. Collection, Vol. II, p. 179 b.
Ibid., p. 367.
Pali, Sanskrit, and Old Canarese Inscriptions, No. 159; and see Epi. Carn., Vol. VII, Shimoga, Sk. 129. In the last-mentioned book the name of the country has been misread as Kondali, though it had been taken, almost correctly, as "Kogali" in Mysore Inscriptions, p. 145. So, also, it has been misread in another way, as "Kongali", in Epi. Carn., Vol. XI, Chitaldroog, Dg. 12, though here, again, it had been taken as " Kogali in Mys. Insors., p. 18.
I may notify here a correction in my treatment of the verse which I quoted in the same place (Ind. Ant., 1901, p. 107) from the Davangere inscription of A.D. 1108. Instead of Kadamba-disayarad(a)," of the region the best of regions, of the Kadambas," read Kadambali-sayirad(a), "of the Kadambali thousand;" and cancel note 11. This proviuce is also mentioned as the Kadambalige thousand (perhaps sometimes with d instead of d) in various records ranging from A.D. 930 to 1071: Epi. Carn., Vol. XI, Chitaldroog, Cd, 47, 74-77; Dg. 20, 71, 114, 119, 126, 133; Hl. 30.