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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
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(L. 6)- Those (villages) are as follows:-Bempûru ; Tovaguru, Püvina-Pullimangala, and Kütanidu-Nallûru; Nallûra-Komarangundu; Iggalûru; Dugmonelmalli and Galañjavägilu; Sáramvu (P); Elkuppe, Paravůru, and Kudal. This much, with a specification of the boundaries of the fields, gave Epeyapa to his follower, the Någattara. May there be auspicious and great good fortune!
0.- Âtakûr inscription of Kțishņa III. and Bûtuga II.-A.D. 949-50. This inscription was first brought to notice by Mr. Rice in 1889, in his Inscriptions at Sravana-Belgola, Introd. p. 19, note 10, and p. 21. A rendering of it by myself, from an inked estampage sent to me by Dr. Hultzsch, was issued in 1892, in Ep. Ind. Vol. II. p. 167. And a rendering of it by Mr. Rice, with a lithograph, was published in 1894, in his Ep. Carn. Vol. III. Md. 41. I give now & more final rendering of it from a better ink-impression, for which I am again indebted to Dr. Holtzsch. The collotype is from the ink-impression. The photo-etching is from a photograph of the stone itself; owing to the bad light in which the stone stands, it fails to shew much of the writing, though it presents the sculptures clearly enough.
Åtakûr,-or, perhaps, according to a more recent custom, Âtagûr,-is a village about fifteen miles to the N. E. by E. from Mandya, the head-quarters of the Mandya tåluka of the Mysore district. It is shewn in the Indian Atlas, sheet No. 60, S.E. (1894), as 'Atgur,' in lat. 12° 39', long. 77° 7' ; and it is shewn as 'Atagur' in the map that accompanies the revised edition of Mr. Rice's Mysore, Vol. II. : in the old sheet No. 60 (1828), however, it is shewn as Atcoor,' which answers to the spelling given in Mr. Rice's Ep. Carn. Vol. III., and to what is probably still the more usual form of the name. With the slight difference of u for a in the second syllable, the record mentions it as Åtukûr. And the record shews also that it was the chief village of a circle known as the Atukûr twelve. The inscription is on a stone tablet, measuring about 5' 1" broad towards the bottom by about 6'8" high, which was found set up in front of a temple known as that of the god Challésalinga,- the Challêsvara of the record itself, about a quarter of a mile to the north of the village, and is now in the Mysore Government Museum at Bangalore.
The chief part of the writing consists of nineteen lines, covering an area about 5' 1" broad (in line 19) by 4'0' high, which run right across the lower part of the stone. But there is a subsidiary record, lines 20 to 24, on the upper part of the stone, in the margins that were left above and on each side of the sculptures belonging to the principal part of the record : lines 20 and 21 run up the proper right margin, along the top, and down the proper left margin ; line 22 is a short line on the proper right margin, below the beginning of line 21; and lines 23 and 24 are short lines on the proper left margin, commencing below, respectively, the nna of Kannara and the nige of Bútugange of line 21. The writing is in a fairly good state of preservation throughout; and the whole of the record can be read with certainty, with the exception of the akshara before Tri[ne]tran, line 3, and perhaps of the word ápa[ghá]ta in line 7. The sculptures on the stone cover an area about 3'2" broad by 1' 6' high. They represent a hound and a boar fighting; and they refer to an incident mentioned in lines 10 and 11 of the record. - The characters are Kanarese, boldly formed and well executed, of the regular type of the period to which the record refers itself. The size of them ranges from about l' in the la of Chólane, line 16, to about 1' in the ma of a mannan, line 13: the mba of emba, line 19, is 24" high; and the ka of Súdrakan, in the same line, is 21high vertically and 3" on the slant. The
illustrates also its bigher application, in giving the date as the seventh year of the tying of the fllet of Satyavákya. (M&rasimba II.). And in this application it was synonymous with rájydbhishekan-geys, 'to anoint to the Bovereignty or role, which is the expression tied in giving the regnal date of the Biļidr inscription of Satyavákya(Båtuga I.) of A.D. 888 (Ind. Ant. Vol. VI. p. 102, No. II., and Coorg Insors. p. 5).- Judging from the headdresses of the four principal figures in the sculptures on the stone, the patta seems to have included a kind of plume standing straight up above the head, in addition to a fllet passing round the head.
