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INSCRIPTIONS AT ABLUR.
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village of Siva, which belongs to the pêņdvánaka vishaya in the Gurjaratra country (bhumi):
(L. 8.) The Bhafta Harshuka has apprised (18) that the above-written agrahara, with every income from it excepting previous gifts to gods and Brahmaps, by means of a charter was granted by our reat-grandfather, the Mahúrája Vatsardjadova, for as long as the moon, the sun and the earth endure, to his grandfather, the Bhafta Vasudeva, and was possessed (by the latter), and that by him (the Bhafta Vasudeva) the sixth part of it was given by a deed of donation to the Bhaffa Vishņu ; that our grandfather, the Maharaja Nagabhatadeva, signified his consent ; but that, in our own reigo, that charter and consent have fallen into abeyance.
(L. 12.) Having beard, then, of that charter thus brought to our notice, of the con. sent, the deed of donation and the fact of) possession, we, for the increase of the religious merit of our parents, have given permission that the agrahára), shared in exact accordance with previous possession, shall belong to the Brahmans born in the lineage of the Bhatta Vasudeva, who are of the Kašyspa gótra and are students of the Afvaldyana (Sukhd) of the Rigveda, and to tho Brahmans born in the lineage of the Bhaffa Vishnu, who are of the Katyayana gôtra and are students of the Âśvaldyana (tákhá) of the Rigveda. Knowing this, you should assent to it, and the inhabitants, being ready to obey our commands, should make over to these people all income (due to them).
(L. 15.) Of the firmly enduring charter, issued by Prabhasa, the dútaka is here the Yurarája, the illustrious N&gabhata.
Recorded on the 13th of the bright half of Phalguna of the year 100.
No. 25.- INSCRIPTIONS AT ABLUR.
BY J. F. FLEET, PH.D., C.I.E. Ablûr is a village about two miles to the west of Kod, the chief town of the Kod taluka of the Dharwar district. Its name occurs in the ancient records in the fuller form of Abbalûr or Abbaldru; and the record E. places it in the Någarakhanda seventy, which was & subdivision of the Banavåsi twelve-thousand province (see below). Ink-impressions of geven inscriptions were obtained for me at this village. The most important of the inscriptions is E., the record which gives the history of the revival of Saivism in the twelfth century A.D. This will be edited in fall; so also F., & short record connected with it, and G., which is interesting as being a virgal or monumental tablet, belonging to a class of records of which not many specimens bave as yet been made fully available. The other records all present points of interest : but they are not important enough to repay the time and trouble that would be required to edit them in fall; and it will be sufficient to give abstracts of the contents of them.
A. and B-or the time of Vikramaditya VI.- A.D. 1104. These are duplicate copies, almost word for word the same, but not absolutely so, of a record at a temple of Siva which is now known as the temple of Basavēśvara, though, as the records themselves shew, it was originally called the temple of Brahmēsvara' because it was fonnded by a Gårunda or village-headman named Bamma or Barma, i.e. Brahms. A. is on & stone tablet outside the temple; and B. is on a stone tablet inside it.
· The text of the seal in identical with part of the text of the plate.
• Braldirara-dfrara digula, eg., A. line 68 ; and Brahmdivara-ddwald-shdna, 9., c. line 27.-The founding of it is mentioned in A. lipes 27, 28.
