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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
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लस्याभिनवसौभाग्यसौन्दर्य'ममोहरकुसुममलरीरसे सैन्यषहरणचरितस्य भतर्धारागिरिप्रमदोद्यान एव सर्व 'दिनमतिक्रान्तम् । रजनी पुनर्मया विना कथं गमिथfar far .......... Afaa: 1 A.-Text, 1. 78.--calfa
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No. 10.-KARKALA INSCRIPTION OF BHAIRAVA II.;
SAKA-SAMVAT 1508.
BY H. KRISHNA SASTRI, B.A. The village of Kårkaļa, which is mentioned as Karakala in this inscription (text line 14) and other connected ones, is 18 miles east-south-east of Udipi, the head-quarters of the talaka in which it is situated, and 10 miles north of Mûdabidure. It is the largest Jaina settlement in the South Canara district of the Madras presidency and contains, besides the colossal image of Gummata, a number of Jaing temples which are ruined and out of repair with the single exception of the Chaturmukhabasti. This temple is situated opposite to the Jaina matha at Karkala, on a hillock? half as high as the hill on which the colossus stande. Hiriyangadi, i.e. the big bdsår, which is now a few furlonga distant from Karkala, but appears, from its very name, to have once formed the commercial quarter of the town, contains, besides some bastis, a beautifully
1 Pischel, 176.
Compare Pischel, 357.
Hêm. II. 156. • A photograph of this colossus is given above, Vol. VII. Plate facing p. 112.
. For a detailed description of this temple by Mr. Walhouse sce Ind. Ant. Vol. V, p. 39 f.; Mr. Sturrock's South Canara Mandal, Vol. I. p. 89 f. and the Government Epigraphist's Annual Report for 1900-01, paragraph 6.
The Jains matha at Karkaļa is presided over by a pontiff, just as the mafhas at Yudabidure, Sravana. Belgola and Humcha. He bears the title Lalitakirti and is reported to be the trustea of the Jaina temples at Karkala and in its neighbourhood. In the inscriptions at Hiriyangudi near KArkas, the teachers to whose pontifi. cate Kårks!s and the surrounding country belonged are generally called Lalitakirti-bhattårskadeva, with the word Maladhari prefixed to it in two of them, viz. Nos. 68 and 70 of the Government Epigraphist's collection for 1991. No. 67 of the same collection makes Lalitakirti the vichdrakarted or supervisor of the charity recorded therein; and No. 70 says that these teachers belonged to the Kundakunda division, were lords of the lineage of Panasok and members of the Kajågragans. In v. 4 of the subjoined inscription, which does not mention their division (anvaya), it is stated that the Lalitakirtis belonged to the Desigans. Perhaps Kå!ôgragans was a Local branch of the Desigaņa. Panasoka has been identified with Hanasoge in the Mysore State ; see above, Vol. VII. p. 110, note 1.
The inscription gives this hill the name of Chikkabetta (i... the small hill') in order to distinguish it from the higher hill on which the colossus is set up.
• See Ind. Ant. Vol. V. p. 40.
