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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
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TRANSLATION. "Hail! During the victorious and prosperous reign of the glorious and powerful emperor, the lord of the eastern, southern and western oceans, the glorious king of great kings and supreme lord of kings, the glorious Vira-Harihara-Maharaya - while the glorious MallaņaOd[e]yar, residing at Honnavura, was ruling the kingdom of Haive,- in the Kshaya samvatsara, which corresponded to the Saka year one thousand three hundred and nine, (when) Jupiter (was standing) in Leo, on Thursday, the fifth (tithi) of the dark (fortnight) of the month of) Pushya."
Gold and copper coins, apparently issued during the reign of Harihara II., still exist. In his paper on the Coire of the Kings of Vijayanagara, Dr. Hultzsch describes a half-pagoda and a copper coin. A second copper coin is described in his paper on South Indian Copper Coins.? On all of them the legend reads Pratápa-Harihara.
of the birudas of the king mentioned in lines 38 to 50 of tho subjoined inscription, the most important are :- Karnataka-lakshmi-karn-avatansa, Sardúla-mada-bhañjana, Vêdabhashya-prakasaka and Vaidika-marga-sthapan-acharya. The first shows that he was ruling over the Karnața country, and the second that he professed to have conquered the Cholas, who had the tiger for their emblem. The biruda Vêdabhashya-prakdéaka clearly refers to the commentaries on the Vedas, which were published under the king's authority by Sayanacharya. This celebrated Vedic scholar professes to have been the minister of Sargama II, and of Harihara II.3 The biruda Vaidika-márga-sthápan-acharya of the inscription corresponds to Vaidika-márga-pravartaka, which is attributed to Harihara (II.) in the colophon of Sayana's commentary on the Satapathabrahmana. In his Oxford Catalogue Professor Aufrecht describes a manuscript of the Tarkabháshd-prakúfika. From its colophon we learn that the work was composed by a certain Chinnabhatta, who was the son of Vishnudévårådhya, the younger brother of Sarvajña, and a dependant of Harihara-Maharaja. Professor Aufrecht tells us elsewhere that Sâyana's teacher was Vishnu-Sarvajña. This Sarvajna was very probably identical with the elder brother of Chinnabhatta, and the Harihara-Maharaja of the colophon of the Tarkabhishd-prakásiká with Harihara II. Some of the details furnished by Madhava's and Sayana's works 7 regarding their relations and contemporaries are corroborated by a mutilated Grantha inscription of the Aruļåļa-Perumal temple at Conjeeveram, which, with the permission of Dr. Hultzsch, I subjoin, as far as it can be made out :i f
*1 arut ait furt naftalari h 2 [][HT ] .. Trgo: [T]: fa: [*1 ] 3 [@][]u[fa: #] .. []P ]Watt THCET[]4 @ET[] TET[E]at[fear:] [u]
1 Ind. Ant. Vol. XX. p. 802. . ibid. Vol. XXI. p. 321.
See ante, p. 23. • The parage alluded to runs as follows:- Taraftar yaratani c efceret. gauti F1 ; Professor Weber's Berlin Catalogue, Vol. II. p. 73.
The colophon referred to runs as follows:- Tife CHETTforfeda v afagęstw a gåa f u farfaret HTCTTicar14 .
. . . . ; Professor Aufrecht's Oxford Catalogue, p. 244, a. • Catalogus Catalogorum, s.v. HT.
ante, p. 23. • Dr. Holtzach's Annual Report for 1892-93, p. 14, No. 60 of 1899. From an inked estampage received from the Editor.
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