Epigraphia Indica Vol 11

Author(s): E Hultzsch
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India

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AN INSCRIPTION AT DEVAGERI,
have it in an anpublished ingsription, dated in A.D. 897-98, at the village Chinchli mentioned above; in its, line 7, and idań, lines 14 and 17.
On the other hand, we have the later type in an unpublished fragmentary inscription of the same reign, of Křisbộa II, dated in A.D. 901-2, at Yeli-Sirar in the Gadag täluka, Dhārwar; in irppatta, line 1: here the precise form is a lop-sided one, very much like that which we have in ity", line 41, No. 12, in the Țēki plates of A.D. 1086-87 from the eastern side of Southern India, ante, vol. 6, p. 339, plate. And the later type is found again in the Nandwädige inscription of the same reign, dated in A.D. 903, from the Hungand taluka, Bijāpār; Ind. Ant., vol. 12, p. 221, with plate in vol. 11, p. 127; in irppatt., line 2, No. 1. These two cases are the earliest instances of the later type that I can cite from either the western or the eastern parts of Southern India : but they are run close by an instance of A.D. 909-10 from the Kolár District, Mysore (see p. 12 below).
The next record takes us back to the earlier type: it is the Hatti-Mattar inscription of the time of Indra III, dated in A.D. 918-17, from the Karaigi taluka, Dharwar; Ind. Ant., vol. 12, p. 224 (no plate): here we have the earlier type, in a thoroughly archaic form, in idam, line 10, and i (for i) stitiyan, line 11. Regarding the second inscription on the same stone, see lower down on this page.
The next records take as on again to the later type. One is the unpublished Kalas inscription of the time of Govinda IV, dated in A.D. 930, from the Bankäpār tāluka, Dharwar, noticed ante, vol. 6, p. 177: here we have the vowel in the later type in idans, line 73. The others are records of the time of Krishna III. Here we have the later type in the unpublished inscription, dated in A.D. 942, at Ron, Dharwar District, noticed in Ind. Ant., vol. 30, p. 262; in i[du], or some such word, in the last line bat one. Again in an unpublished inscription, dated in A.D. 946, at Tappada-Kurahatti in the Nawalgund taluka, Dharwär; in idarke, line 16, in int=i keygam and idan, line 20, and in idans, line 23. And again in the Sorațir inscription of A.D. 951, from the Gadag taluka, Dharwar; Ind. Ant., vol. 12, p. 257 (no plate); in idan, line 20.
On the other hand, the earlier type is presented again in the unpublished Chiñchli inscription of the same reign, dated in A.D. 953, from the Gadag täluka, Dharwar, noticed ante, vol. 6, p. 83; in idarke or ivarke, line 29.
We next have the later type again in the unpublished inscription of A.D. 987, 970, or 971, of the time of Khottiga, at Hire-Handigol in the Gadag talaka, Dhārwar, noticed ante, vol. 6, p. 180; in int=appavam, line 20.
But the earlier type appears again in an unpablished inscription of the same reign, dated in A.D. 969, at Nágávi in the same täluka, noticed ante, vol. 6, p. 180, and Dyn. Kan. Distrs., p. 422, note 3; in ivarke or idarke in the last line but five.
For the time of the last Rashtrakāta king, Kakka II, I cannot cite any instance of the use of this initial vowel. The next available record is one in which we find the two types mixed, just as in the Devagēri inscription. It is the inscription of A.D. 975 from Hebbal, in the Lakshmēshwar subdivision of the Miraj State within the limits of the Dharwar District; ante, vol. 4, p. 351 (no plate): here we have the later type in irppattu, line 35but in int=ły=ayrar-, line 38, we have the earlier type, with the sides of the top brought down to the lower line of the writing, and with omission of the two circles or dots of the lower part of the letter. And we may note that we have the same mixture of types in the undated inscription which lies below the Hatti-Mattár record of A.D. 916-17 (mentioned above) from the Karajgi taluka, Dbarwar ; Ind. Ant., vol. 12, p. 224 (no plate): here we have the later type in int=ivars, line 15, and in
For similar instances from the eastern parts of Southern India, see pp. 15, 16, below.
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