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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
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Of the territorial divisions mentioned in this record, the Banavåsi twelve-thousand and the Purigere three-hundred are already well known. The Niềugundage twelve was, of course, a group of villages headed by the modern Nidagundi itself. The position of the Kundarage seventy is probably marked by a villnge in the North Kanara district, the name of which is not given in the Indian Atlas sheet No. 42 (1827) but is shewn in the Map of the Dharwår Collectorate (1874), perhaps as a bamlet or deserted village, as Koondurgee, one mile and a half east-by-south from Mandagôd in the Yellâpur taluka, and nine miles west-by-north from Nidagundi. The Belgali three-hundred may be connected either with a village in the Bankpur taluka, which is shewn as Belgullee' in the Indian Atlas sheet No. 41 (1852), and as * Belugulee' in the Collectorate Map, four miles on the north of Shiggaon, and about eight miles north-by-east from Nidagandi, or with a village in the Hubli taluks, which is shewn as
Belgulee' in the Collectorate Map, but as Bellagattee' - (no doubt, by mistake for Bellagullee')-in the Atlas sheet No. 41, about seven and a half miles on the south of Hubļi, and twenty-two miles towards the north-by-west from Nidagundi. The position of the Kundur five-hundred is a more diflicult question. There is a village in the Bankápur taluka, which is shewn in both the Atlas sheet No. 42 and the Collectorate Map as 'Koondoor,' seven miles southsouth-east-half-south from Shiggaon, and five miles south-east from Nidagundi; but the close proximity of the Pånurgal or Hånumgal five-hundred and the Purigere three-hundred districts, renders it difficult, if not impossible, to find room for a five-hundred district there. And there is also a Kundur' somewhere in the Sirsi taluka of North Kanara; but, if the Kundûr fivehundred lay there, Bankêyarasa must have been governing also the Pånungal five-hundred, intervening directly between that locality and the Parigere three-hundred; whereas, the record does not mention the Pânumgal five-hundred. A Kundûr five-hundred, however, appears to be mentioned elsewhere, in the passage in the Amînbhåvi inscription of A.D. 1113, which, according to the transcription given in Sir Walter Elliot's Manuscript Collection, mentions the place as Ammaiyyanabhävi, and claims that, in the time of the Western Chalukya king Pulakėgin II., and in A.D. 566 or 567 (an altogether incorrect date), certain grants were made to the god Kalidêva of Ammaiyyanabhävi, which was an agrahara in the Kundür five-hundred of the Palasige province (vishaya). Aminbhavi is about six miles north-north-east from Dharwar, and about thirty miles on the east of Halsi, the ancient Palasige, in the Khånápur táluka. The position is a thoroughly suitable one for the Kundûr five-hundred district. And I think that we may safely take it that the Kundûr five-hundred of the present record is localised by the Aminbhavi record and included that village, though I cannot at present identify the town, Kundûr, from which the district took its appellation.
TEXT.2 1 Svastyø-Amôghavarsha
Sripritbiviva2 llabha maharajadhiraja (ja) paramdkvara bha![&]S rara (r) ond-uttaram rajyam-geygutt-ire satya-samara
Bar4 ghattan(n)-palabdha-vijayalakshmi-nivåsits5 chellaketana Srimat Bamkey-arasara(r) Banavisi-6
Regarding this record, see Dyn. Kan. Distrs. p. 358, note 1, and Ind. Ant. Vol. XXX. p. 209. ? From the ink.impressions.
The marks before this word do not seem well enough defined to be taken for the remnants of damaged symbol for the word om.
• The second syllable of this word is an anomalous character, neither exactly od nor exactly ma. It occurs again in Banarasi, in the next line.
Regarding the quantity of the vowel of the second syllable of this name, see note 4 on page 200 above. • Regarding the third syllable of this word, which is neither exactly od nor exactly ma, see note 4 above.
