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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
[VOL. V.
68 rvvakke varsharh-prati okkalalli visav=aydam kottar deda(va)ra kottaliga!
nála-parvvakko halur nulu beragi beraţţumb-okkalalli varshan-prati
visav=aydar kottaru abpiga-gottaliga! nQla-pa89 rvvakke varsham-prati kuriba-abpigar=okkal-okkalalu Vik&v=aydam kottar billa
mundryva[r]un bitta dharmmav=oyendu' mdrava hodagoya hanyu hampal
badu-kayge hidi. 70 bada hidi-hanpath kottar medar-okkalaga! hůvina-karndage hedalage mathake
re .. kerasiyah sada-kalam nadasuv-amt-&gi kotter gaadu mukhyav-Agi gaud.
okkals Deraviga 71 garda-gusa hem-gūs=ornado maduvege Visay-aydan dåvar-dyav-agi kottar
Vargham-prati vaļiy-era[dan] kottar [119] Inte) dharmmaman=&-chandr. Arkkam stbayi-varam nadev-ant-&gi kottar dharmmamam Sasana-maryy&deyim naduga! petipaļisu varəf dharmmakk-adda-khamdava nadugalg=
idir-Adavan avage samudra-ma........ dn(Par) ne bira-vanigan= adakk-nyodrvvara besadim billa-minúryvaru kávar [ll] Mangala-maba-bri II
ABSTRACT OF CONTENTS. After an invocation of Siva (line 1), and a verse in praise of the same god under the name of Sambhu, the inscription proceeds to recite that, in the centre of the earth, there is the mountain Mandart (L. 3), the ornament of the seven continents and the seven Oceans. Over the land of Kuntala (1.3), which was-considered to be a lock of hair (kuntala) of the woman who was the land to the south of the golden mountain (Meru), there reigned the Chalukyas (1.4), in so praiseworthy # manner as to illustrate well the observances of the code of . Manu (1. 4). When they had continued during eighteen successions,' among the renowned Chalukyas (1.5), in the eighteenth (aucoession), in the desceat of the royal Chalukyas who claimed to be born in the lineage of the younger brother of the father of Kattiyaradeva (11. 5, 6) whose hereditary capital was the world-renowned Kisuvolal (1. 5), there was king Ayyanadeva (I.) (1. 7). To him there was born Vikramaditya (V.) (1.7), whose wife was Bonthadevi (1. 8). daughter of king Lakshmans of the Dahall country. And then, prosperity returning to the Chalkd family, which had suffered mishap through being bruised by the race of the demons in the shape of the Ratta kings (11. 8, 9),- their son was Tails (II.) (1. 10), a very incarnation of Krishna, who fought a hundred and eight battles out in the open country, and captured eighty-eight fortresses. None of the hostile kings could shake off this Åhavamalla-Taila (II.) (1. 12), who, resembling Death, annihilated those kings, the pillars of Kakkara? (1. 12) in war, the moons of the sky which was the Rashtrakūta (race), and, amidst the applauses of the whole world, with an exceedingly great effort acquired the sovereignty of the land of Kuntaļa (1.13). Just as the god) Sarasijanabha (Vishņa), in the form of the primal boar, lifted up the earth which had anak into the lower regions, 80 Taila (II.) (1. 15), bearing the crest of boar, lifted up the Chalukys sovereignty which had fallen through being over.
1 The vowel of the first syllablo is illegible; it may be any other vowel, quito mo much m a. * This is perhape, by mistake for dharmmarmorit-eme. . This lo an imaginative statement, not in accordance with facto.
• Thie lus purely imaginary person, not mentioned in any other record that has yet come to notice; unless, judeed, the name la intended for that of Kirttivarmaa IL, who, however, did not stand in the anserted relationship to Ayyapa I.
The molern Pattadakal, in the Bad mi taluka, Bijapur district.
• Why this particular number obould be mentioned, le not apparent. In the same way, the Eastern Chalukya blog Narindramrigardja.Vijay Aditya II. to waid to have fought abundred sod eight battles, by day and by night during twelve years, with the armies of the Gangu sad the Ratas (see Ind. Ant. Vol. XX. p. 101).
The Blahtrakta king Kakka IL
