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should behave as a leader in the stnin of violating that (law)! But, indeed, he who, even when requested, through greed (or) having a mind obscured by the screen of the darkness of ignorance, may confiscate (a grant) or assent to an act of confiscation, he shall be soiled with all the five sins and the minor sins, and shall enjoy for a long time Raurava, Mahāraurava, Andhatāmisia, and other hells! And so it was said by Vyåsa :-"Whosoever takes away land that has been given, whether by himself or by another, he becomes & worm in ordure and is cooked along with worms!”
(Line 55) And as all that is so, the giver of the charter expresses his opinion by the hand of the writer; just as that which is written in this charter is the opinion of me, the Mahāmandalēšvara' the illustrious Chhittarājadēva, son of the Mahamandalēšvara the illustrious Vajjadadēva (II).
(Line 57) And this has been written, by the order of the illustrious king, by me, the Bhāndāgārasēna Jogapaiya, son of a brother of the Bhāndāgārasēna and Mahākavi Nāgalaiya : whatever is in this, whether it has syllables wanting or in excess, the whole of it is evidence. Let there be good fortune!
No. 32.-INSCRIPTIONS AT YEWUR.
BY LIONEL D. BARNETT. Yēwür is a village in the Shorápur or Särāpur taluka of the Gulbarga District of the Nizam's territory. It is shown as Veyoor 'in the Indian Atlas sheet 57 (1854), in lat, 16° 44', long. 76° 40', and as . Yeyoor' in the Hyderabad Survey sheet 79 (1885): it is situated about seventeen miles north-west-by-north from Soora poor,' and forty-two miles towards east-by-north from Bagewadi in the Bijapur District, Bombay. The inscriptions give the earlier form of the name as Ehür; and one of them, C, of A.D. 1105, places it in an ancient territorial division known as the Sagara three-hundred, regarding which see p. 272 below. At Yēwur there are seven inscriptions, ranging in date from about A.D. 1040 to 1179 : I em editing them from ink impressions furnished by Dr. Fleet, and am doing them under his guidance, as this is my first essay at dealing with Kanarese epigraphe.
A.-OF THE TIME OF JAYASIMHA II : ABOUT A.D. 1040. This inscription is on a stone built into a wall dear the house of the Mathapati-Ayya, in the village. At the top of the stone there are sculptures: the sun and moon; below them, a linga on an abhishēka-stand, a recumbent bull, and a cow and calf; and below the liriga a seated figure. The writing covers a space about 1'7" broad by 1' 5' high, and is well preserved as far as it goes. The characters are Kanarese, of the eleventh century: the size of them ranges from about to 1". The language is Old-Kanarese prose.
This inscription is only a fragment, not requiring to be translated: all that is extant is its first eleven lines complete, with parts of the next four lines. It refers itself to the reign of the
[The true local form of the name of the taluks town seems to be Surapura : it is so known in the neighbouring Rritish Districts; and it is spelt in that way in the titlings of transcriptions of inscriptions in the Elliot MS. Collection, and in practically the same way in the Ballad of Rāyanna of Sangolli, Ind. Ant., Vol. XIV, p. 301, verse 2. The place is shown as 'Soorapoor' in the Indian Atlas and Hyderabad Survey mapa. But elsewhere it seems to be habitually treaterl now as 'Shorāpur': the Imperial Gazetteer of India gives this form in ito atlas volume, map 40, in its index volume it gives both Shorāpur' and Sūräpur'; ita account of the place is under 'Surapur in vol. 28.-J. F, F.]
