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INSCRIPTIONS ON THE THREE JAINA COLOSSI.
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TEXT.1 1 श्रीमत्परमगंभीरस्थाहा2 दामोघलांछ[नं] । जीयाचै3 लोक्यनाथस्य भास[न] जिनशास4 नं ॥ [*] शकवर्षेष्वतीत[षु विषया. 5 विशदुषु । वर्तमा]ने शोभक्क6 ति वत्सरे फालाना[ख्यके ॥] [२] मासघ शु. 7 लपवदशम्यां गुरुपुष्यके । सु. 8 लग्ने मिथुने देशी[गणांब]रदिनेशितुः
9 [1] [३*] बेळगुळाख्यपुरीपक्षी[२]बुधिनिशा10 पतेः । चारुकीर्ति] मुनि] हिव्यवाक्यादे11 नूरपत्तने ॥ [४*] श्री[]यकुवरस्याथ 13 जामाता त[महोदरी- । पांधका13 ख्यमहादेव्या: [स]पुत्रः पांद्यभू 14 पतेः । [५] [न]ज[स्तिं] मरा[जाख्यचामुं15 डान्वय[भूषकः । अस्था[प]यबति[छाप्य] 16 भुजबल्याख्यकं जिनं ॥ ५' । शुभमस्तु ।
TRANSLATION. (Verse 1.) Let it be victorious,-the holy religion of the lord of the three worlds, the religion of Jins, the unfailing characteristic of which is the extremely profound scepticism !
(Vv. 2-6.) After the Saka years (measured by the objects of the senses (5), the eyes (2), the arrows (5) and the moon (1) had passed, while the (eyclic) year Sobhakrit was current, in the month named Phálguna, on the brilliant (?) tenth tithi of the bright fortnight, in the rakshatra) Pushyaka (combined with) Thursday, (and) in the auspicious lagna Mithuna - at the divine order of the sage Charukirti, the sun on the firmament of the Defigana (and) the moon in the milk-ocean of the pontificate of the town named Belguļ8,- he who was named Timmara.ja, the ornament of the family of Chamunda, tha son-in-law of the glorious R&yakuvara, the virtuous son of his sister-the great queen named Pandyaka, the younger brother of prince Pandya, consecrated and set up the Jina named Bhujabalin at the town of Entra. (Line 16.) Let there be prosperity ! G-On the proper left side of the colonsus at Vepar%B
Saka-Samvat 1528. This inscription (No.73 of 1901) consists of two verses in the Kanarese alphabet and language. Like the preceding inscription (F.), it records that the image was set up by Timma,
From two inked estampages.
* Read & Compare e.g. Sont-Ind. Insor. Vol. I. No. 159, verse 2, and No. 153, verse 1. .I..Saka-Sarivat1525.
Regarding patta see Sowl.-Ind. Inser. Vol. I. p. 150, note 1.
