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specified. And on it there was a total eclipse of the moon, visible in India. Accordingly the date answers quite satisfactorily to Sunday, 6 August, A.D. 1077."
Among the places mentioned in this record, the first is the Brahman village Mukkunde on the river Kirudore in the Ededore näd or country (line 130, verse 57). Dr. Fleet having told me that he had good reasons for believing that the name Kirudore de notes the Tungabhadra and that Mukkunde should be found somewhere on that river in the Nizam's territory, I searched the maps and have found the place : it is in the 'Sindunoor' taluka of the Raichir District, and is shown as Mookoondi' in the Hyderabad Topographical Survey sheet 83 (1880) and in the Indian Atlas sheet 58 (1893), in lat. 15° 36', long. 76° 52', on the north bank of the Tungabhadrā : it is situated about twelve miles south-south-east from Sindunoor' and thirty-two miles north-by-west from Bellary in Madras, and is about seventy-eight miles south-by-east from Yowar. This identification of Mukkunde both endorses the identification of the Kirudore with the Tungabhadra and also helpa to locate the Ededore country; for some further information on these points reference may be made to Dr. Fleet's notes on pp. 293-295 below. Mukkunde is mentioned again in line 169, verse 82, where we learn that the minister Ravidēva obtained a gift of this village along with Gangāpura and Ehür from the Western Chalukya king Ahavamalla-Somēśvara I, and presented them to the members of the Brāhman family at Juk kunde to which he himself belonged. Ehür, which is mentioned again in verses 94, 100, and lines 219, 245, is obviously the modern Yēwür itself. Gangapura may possibly be the 'Gungapoor' of the Atlas sheet 58, in lat. 15° 5', long, 75° 56', on the north bank of the Tungabhadrā, in the Gadag talaka of the Dharwår District, Bombay, about seventy miles towards west-south-west from Mookoondi': but the name is not an uncommon one, and this identification is only conjectural. Miriñje (1. 227) is the present Miraj, the chief town of the Miraj State in the Southern Marathă Country, Bombay, about twenty-eight miles east-by-north from Kolhapur. We find mention likewise of Kiriya-Bellumbatti in the Nariyumbole seventy (11. 229-30, 249) and Piriya-Bellumbatti in the Sagara three-hundred (II. 233-4). Regarding Sagara see just below. Nariyumbole may be safely identified with the Nurriboli' of the Atlas sheet 57, on the sonth bank of the Bhimă, about twenty-seven miles north-east from Yêwîr ; and one or the other of the two Bellumbattis-probably Piriya, the "larger, senior, or older" one-is the Bellubutti' of the maps, four miles north-north-east from Yêwir. As regards sivapura, on the west of Piriya-Beļļumbaţti (11. 233-5), the maps show a 'Shewapoor' about one mile and a half on the north-east of Bellubutti'; but this does not seem to answer to the Sivapura of the record : there is, however, nothing special about the name Sivapura ; it might be given to any small settlement, and the place could afterwards develop into & village. As for Elarăve (11. 230, 249, 251), Dr. Fleet tells me that an inscription of A.D. 1095 at the place itselt shows that this is the modern Yedarāve, a village about ten miles towards the northnorth-west from Yowar which is shown in the Hyderabad Survey sheet 78 (1885) as * Yeddurawi,' bat in the Atlas sheet 57 as 'Yeddura' with a careless omission of the last syllable. On the subject of the Sagara three-hundred (1. 233) Dr. Fleet makes the following remarks: -"This ancient territorial division is connected more or less directly with the present Sagar,-the Suggur of the Atlus sheet 57 and the Survey sheet 79,6 - now a jāgir town in the Shāhpũr (Shawpoor ') tāluka of the Gulbarga District, about fifteen miles towards the
i Sewell, Eclipses of the Moon in India, table E, p. 25, from which I quote the exact time of full-moon.
* It may as well be said that neither Dr. Fleet nor I can find any other representative of Mukkunde in any direction.
* This place is also mentioned in the short separnte record No. I: see p. 273 below. • Elliot MS. Collection, R. As. Society's copy, Vol. I, p. 223.
. In the Imperial Gazetteer this name has been given as. Sagar, with the long á in the first syllable. But the inscriptions and the maps disclose the correct form.
