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INSCRIPTIONS AT MANAGOLI.
(and) five jack-fruit trees, at the town of Agariyapura ; and, at (P the town named) Krishna(pura), fifty, 50, nivartanas in the land called Devarolaka-bhumi (?), (which were granted) for the accumulation of religious merit for the parents of Haraséna. (And) by the refined and clever Vaigikacharya there has been set up . . . . . . . . .
(Line 8.)- (This) prasasti has been written on the full-moon tithi of (the month) Karttika; the year in the reign. Written by Isane. Whatever religious merit there is in this, let it be ............ ......
(L. 11.)- The earth has been enjoyed by many [kings), commencing with Sagara; whosoever at any time possesses the earth, to him belongs, at that time, the reward (of making the grant that is now recorded if he continues i)! Whosoever confiscates land that has been given whether by himself or by another, he is cooked in hell for sixty thousand years! Hail to the writer and the reader !
No. 3. INSCRIPTIONS AT MANAGOLI.
BY J. F. FLBET, PA.D., C.L.E. Managoli' is a village about eleven miles to the north-west of B&gewadi, the chief town of the Bagewadi talaka of the Bijapur district. With the difference of the lingual for the dental , its name occurs in the ancient records as Manigavalli (e.g., A. below, lines 18, 19) and Maningavalli (e.g., ibid. line 17); and we also have the Sanskritised form Manikysvalli," the village of rubies" (0.g., ibid. line 20). From A. below, lines 18, 24, we learn that it was in the group of towns and villages which was known as the Tardavadi thousand, and which took its damo from a town that is now represented by the small village of Taddewadi,- the . Tuddehwarree' and 'Tudowadee' of maps, on the south bank of the Bhima, in the Indi taluks, about thirty-seven miles to the north of Bijapur. And line 54 of the same record mentions it as an agrahdra; in consequence of which we may perhaps rockon it among the eighteen agrahara," which are spoken of in other records.
The records at Managoli are on stone tablets which have been built into the walls of a modern temple of Hanumat. I edit them from ink-impressions made by my own man
of the time of Bijas; A.D. 1161. The writing of this record covers an aros about 2' 10" broad by 461 high. From the beginning of line 36 to the oentre of the last line, there is a fissure by which the tablet has
1 The word Krishnah) seems to stand by mistake or ellipals for Krisinapurl. Or, perhaps, the year 16, or 26," do. se page 7 above.
The Mungoleo of the Indian Atlas, sheet No. 67. • 8. Ind. dni. Vol. XIX. p. 269.
. Ind. Ant. Vol. X. p. 188, and Vol. XII. p. 47.- They appear to have been towns of religious importadoo, sonttered over the Kanaron country. Hali, in the Belgaum district, was one of them; and Nargund, in Dharwar, wm anotber. Other perhapo, were Decebal in Dharwar, Karbat in Belgium, and Honwld in Bijapur.
