Epigraphia Indica Vol 13

SR No.: 032567
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Sten Konow, F W Thomas
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India
Publication Year: 1915
Total Pages: 430
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 20 MB

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sāgara, and other holy places and bestowed them as ubhayamukhisl upon a thousand Brühmans learned in the Four Vödas; the same fruit shall aocrue as if they had made a great banquet to a crore of ascetics at Bonares.
(Lines 53-55)-So to him who should destroy this pious foundation, or should agree to its destruction, the same deep gailt shall accrue as if he had destroyed at the same holy places mentioned (above) a thousand kine and a thousand Brāhmaṇs and a crore of ascetice. Om!
(Lines 55-59)—"This general principle of law for kings must be maintained by you in crers nge": again and again Rāmabhadra makes this entreaty to all these happy sovereigas. The earth has been enjoyed by many kings, beginning with Sagara; whosoever at any time holds the soil has at tbo same time the fruit thereof. He who should appropriate land, whether given by himself or given by othors, is born as a worm in dung for sixty thousand years. He who should appropriate land belonging to gods or Brāhmaṇs which has been previously enjoyed perishes in course of time and is called a murderer of Brāhmaṇs. Poison is not called poison, gods' proporty is called "poison"; poison destroys the individual, gods' proporty (if misappropriated) destroys son and grandson. Om !
(Lipcs 59-60)-This decree tho Sandhivigralin Mailayya and Koti Setti, the manager of (the properties of the god, wrote out; Kālója executed the order. Happiness! Great fortune!
No. 15.--SOME RECORDS OF THE RASH TRAKUTA KINGS OF MALKHED.
BY J. F. FLEET, I.C.S. (RETD.), PH.D., C.I.E.
(Concluded from Vol. VII, p. 231.) G.Soraţür inscription of the time of Amöghavarsha I.-A.D. 889. Eornţür is a village about twelve miles south of Gadag, the head-quarters of the Gaday taluka of the Dhārwār District, Bombay: it is shown as "Sortur" in the Indian Atlas quartershoet 11, S.E. (1904), in lat. 15° 14', long. 75° 40'. Thero are several inscriptions at this place : one of them, of the time of the Rashtrakāta king Krishụa III and dated in A.D. 951, has been published by me in Ind. Ant., vol. 12, p. 257. This latter record givas the name of the place in the earlier form Saratavura," the Village or Town of Lizards". Our present inscription does not mention the place by name, but locates it in the Purigere nad (see p. 178 below). The place is now only an ordinary large village, with apparently a fort of the usual kind, but was perhaps of some considerable importance in early times. An inscription of the Hoysala king Vira-Ballala II at Apuigere, dated in A.D. 1202, tells us that he fought the Dövagiri-Yadava king Bhillama, who held himself to be unconquerable on account of his great array of elephants and horsos and foot-soldiers, and pursued him from Soraţir to Lokkigundi, which is the modera Lakkundi, six miles east of Gadag. And an inscription of Ballāla's son and successor Narnsimba II at Harihar, dated in A.D. 1224,4 referriog to the same campaign, says that Ballāla met the armies of "the Sēnna king", i.e. Bhillame, comprising two lakhs of infantry and twelvo thousand cavalry, aud pursued them with slaughter from Soratūr to the bank of the river Krishṇavēņi (the Krishņā), and names the place among the fortresses which Ballala reduced, namely, Erain barage (Yelbarga), " the proud " Virāțana-kote (Hāngal), Gutti, Bellittage, Rattapalli, Soraţür, and Kurugodu.
Sinnlove, Vol. XII, p. 3, note, + x is No. 06 in Professor Kielhor's List of the Inscriptions of Southern Indis, vol. 7 above, ppendix.
* see my Dywvlies of the Romarese Districta, in the Gazetteer of the Lombay Presidency, roi. I. part 2, np. 502, 504. The record seems to say that Ithillaina was killed this occasion, which seems likely enough.
Pili Sanskrit. und Ol 'on rese luser pticas, Xo. 123: Fpi Carl., vol. (Chit:-100:"), s. 25.