Epigraphia Indica Vol 15

SR No.: 032569
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Sten Konow, F W Thomas
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India
Publication Year: 1919
Total Pages: 478
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 23 MB

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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
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singavaṭṭige1 on four horses in this district. The mantarike of this district (granted) to the god on each load three quarters of a pana.
(Lines 68-70.) By command of the Kalachuri Emperor strong of arm, Sankama-dēva, the controller of the county of Tarikaḍu, Maidunara Valayya, granted with pouring of water for the personal enjoyment of the god Raya-Murari-Somanatha (and) the god Bijjesvara an estate consisting of a stone-field east of the road of Lonara in the lands east of Kolanur (and) south of Chendike's hill, free from all conflicting claims, on sarva-namasya tenure.
(Lines 70-73.) Furthermore, Kambhaya Nayaka, (intend pouring of water for the god's personal enjoyment a kammata? on the south of the road of Sanambade in the western lands east of the river, likewise a dwelling-house, free from all conflicting claims, on sarva-namasya tenure.
of the Stables, granted with by him in perpetual tenure ngarigave, likewise a garden
(Lines 73-76.) By order of the General Mayideva, officer of-hail !-the blest Nārāyaṇa of the Adavas, king Bhillama, the General Lakhkhana, administering the county of Tarikāḍu, and the royal Superintendent (and) Recorder Lakhkhana Nayaka granted with pouring of water for the god's personal enjoyment a field of fifty mattar by Kannesvara's rood on the site south of the Royal Groom's kammata belonging to the god in Dongarigave, free from all conflicting claims, on sarva-namasya tenure.
(Lines 76-77.) Farthermore, all the natives of the county and the foreiga (traders) from both sides and all the mummuri-dandast granted on all purchases and sales in this district for every gold piece, ten areca-nuts from the purchasers (and) ten areca-nuts from the vendors.
(Lines 77-78.) (The controllers) of salt in the county of Tarikaḍu, Kavuṭṭa Gavuda and Rechaya Nayaka, granted one salt-pan in the district of Malige for the supply of food to the ascetics of the god's monastery.
(Verse 33.) As his conduct showed itself as uniquely hallowing the realms of earth, his fame overspread the massive tusks of the elephants of the sky-quarters, his godlike mouth was a splendid stage for the dance of the goddess Speech, his heart a seat of meditation upon Sadasiva's sphere, that great ascetic the excellent Lökäbharana enjoyed peerless renown.
(Verse 34.) A lion to that furious elephant the Love-god, a sun's orb to the lily-pool of the Love-god, a wind to the clouds of the Love-god, was the blest Lökabharaṇa, lord of Yogis, adorned by the doctrines of Isa.
(Verse 35.) There has flourished a disciple of this saint, a seat of lore, brilliant in conduct and the love (borne for him) by the lady Fortune, a moon to the ocean of the virtue of mercy, the noble ascetic Kalyāṇadeva.
(Verse 36.) Mightily putting to flight the Love-god by his austerities, on account of his skill in the traditions of the lore of Sambhu causing the world to bow before him, the noble ascetic Kalyanadeva has flourished.
(Lines 83-86.) Hail! The high sheriff of Malige, Bijjaya Nayaka, the gentleman who constructed (the temple of) the god with the whole endowment of the god, laved the feet of Kalyāṇadeva, who possesses the merits of practice of the major and minor disciplines, scriptural study, meditation, spiritual concentration, observance of silence, prayer, and absorption, and presented to him with pouring of water the establishment of the god Raya-MurariSomanatha (and) the god Sudesi-Bijjēśvara.
1 Apparently some kind of toll.
2 An estate cultivated by a landowner with his own farming stoak, but by the labour of others. On the spelling of this name, see above, p. 318. Cf. above, Vol. XIII, p. 16.