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given to Trailokyavallabha, the god of Tirupparuttikkupru, for worship, for the alms-house, and for repairs of the temple,- (the village of) Mahendramangalam in the division (part of Mávandur, (up to its) boundaries on the four sides, as a tax-free palsichchandam, to continue as long as the moon and the sun. Let this pious gift be victorious!
B.-Dated in the Prabhava year. • This Grantha inscription (No. 42 of 1990) is engraved on the roof of the mandapa in front of the shrine in the same temple as the preceding inscription (A.), and consists of one Sanskrit verse in the Sardúlavikridita metre. It records that the mandapa on which it is found was built by the same general Irugappa, the son of the general Vaichaya, at the instance of his spiritual preceptor, the Jaina priest) Pushpasêna, in the year Prabhava. This year might be meant for Parabhara=A.D. 1366-67, which wonld, however, fall into the reign of Bukka I. Hence it follows that Prabhava is used on account of the metre instead of Prabhava=A.D. 1387-88, which falls into the time of Bukka II., the contemporary of Irugappa 3
In this inscription the temple of the Jina Vardhamana is said to hare been included in Kanchi, of which Tirupparuttikkunru' was evidently considered a suburb.
TEXT.5 1 Srimat(d) Vaichaya-dandanatha-tanayas-samvatsarê Prabhavê saxiskhyáván-Irugappa.
dandantipatiś=śri-Push pasen-âjõaya il 2 sri-Kânchi-Jina-Varddhamána-nilayaby=&gre maha-mardapam samgit-arttham
achikarach=cha silaya baddbam samantåt sthalam || 6L
TRANSLATION. In the year Prabhava, at the order of the holy Pushpasens, - the wise general Irugappa, the son of the glorious general Vaichaya, caused to be built, in front of the temple of the Jins Vardhamâna at the prosperous Kanchi, a great hall for concerts and caused to be) pared with stones the space all round.
No. 16.-TWO BRAHMI AND KHAROSHTHI ROCK-INSCRIPTIONS
IN THE KANGRA VALLEY
Br J. P. VOGEL, LL.D. The first of these two rock-inscriptions was discovered by Sir E. C. Bayley at Kanhiara, three miles to the east of Lower Dharmgâlâ on the bank of the Mânji torrent. and was edited by him in 1854 from drawings made by Lieutenants Crofton and Dyas. In 1575 it was reproduced again and discussed by General Cunningham.7
The second inscription I found last summer in the course of an archeological tour in the Kångra district near a place called Pathyar, situated nine miles south of Kanhiara on the bank of the Baner rivulet, at a distance of about one mile from the Dadh Travellers Bungalow.
1 This term meensland belonging to a Jains temple;' see South-Ind. Inscr. Vol. II. p. 52, note 2, and above. Vol. IV. p. 138. • See above, Vol. VI. p. 329 f. See p. 116 above.
See above, A. 1. 3. From an inked estampage.
J. 4. 8. B. Vol. XXIII. p. 57. Arch. Survey Reports, Vol. V. p. 175, Plate xlii.
