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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
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Note by Dr. Fleet. The places mentioned in the record on the Miraj plates. Of the places mentioned in this record the first line 66) is Kollapura, in the neighbourhood of which city Jayasimha II was encamped when he made the grant. Kollāpura is well known as the earlier name of the present Kolhapir, the chief town of the Kolhapur State in the Southern Maratha Country, Bombay.
The grant was made to a Brāhman who was born at & village named Mudunira which was in the Pagalaţi vishaye (line 67). The first step towards locating this district and village is made by means of an insoription at Tumbagi in the Muddebiha! taluka of the Bijapur District, Bombay, which village is shown in the Indian Atlas sheet 57 (1854) 86
Toombgee,' in lat. 16° 34', long. 76° 20', abont twenty-one miles east of the taluka town Bagowădi in the same district, which is in the same Atlas sheet, and twenty miles towards north-east-by-north from Maddebihā!, which is in sheet 58,1 The record refers itself to the time of the Western Chālnkya king Akalankacharita-Irivabedanga-Satyábrayadēva, and is dated in the Krodhin samvatsara, Saks 926 (expired), on the new-moon tithi of Ashādha, on the occasion of an eclipse of the sun these details answer quite regularly to 20 July, A.D. 1004, on which day the given tithi ended at about 3 hrs. 20 min. after mean sunrise (for Ujjain), and there was an annular eclipse of the sun which seems to have been partially visible in Southern India. It tells us that on that day a subject of the king, the Setti Brahmayya, made grants to the god Brahmēśvara at the agrahāra Tumbige which was in the Pagalatti three-hundred district. Thus, so far, we learn that the Pagalati or Pagalatti distriot comprised three hundred towns and villages, and included Tumbagi in the Muddebihă] tāluka,
The next step is taken by means of inscriptions at Hire- and Chikka-Mudanar, two villages, contiguous to each other, in the Shorāpăr or Strāpār talaka of the Gulbarga District of the Nizam's territory: they are shown in the Indian Atlas sheet 57 (1854) as Heere and Chicku Moodanoor', in lat. 16° 36', long. 76° 32', with only one site for the two villages, and in the Hyderabad Survey sheet 79 (1885), which is on the larger scale (l'=l mile, instead of 1"=4 miles), as Heere Moodupoor', and Chikku Moodunoor', with separate sites, which, however, practically touch each other,- Hire-Mudanár being on the west. I have ink. impressions of five inscriptions from Hire Mudanar, and six from Chikka-Mudanúr. Ten of these are dated, and range from A.D. 1099 to 1218 : these present the earlier name 88 Mudinir. The remaining inscription is an earlier one, at Hire-Mudanir : this is only
1 The inscription is on a stone at the drinking-water well of the Matha. I quote it from an ink-impression. An imperfect transcription of it ie given in the Elliot Manuscript Collection, Royal Asiatic Society's Copy, Vol. 1. p. 17. the month is given there wrongly u Pushya, i... Pansha, and the name of the district as Padala.
* The weekday is not stated. • See Indian Calendar, p. 191 ; and Von Oppolzer, Canon der Finsternisse, p. 212, and plate 106. • The name is given here clearly with the double #f.
* In the titlings of the transcriptions in the Elliot M8. Collection (se note l on p. 808 below) this name is always giyen A Muddanür, with the double dd. Following the maps, endorsed by the ancient name as found in the inscriptions, I have preferred to write it with the single d.
• Transcriptions of eight of these records are given in the Elliot MS. Collection, Royal Asiatic Society's copy, Vol. I, pp. 242 6, 288, 439 6, 536; Vol. 3, pp. 34, 49 6, 110 6. In none of them is the name given correctly in accordance with the original texts the nearest approaches are, Mudinir (shorti in both syllables, twice) and Mudinir (long i in both syllables, ouoe); other forms are Mudinür, Mudinür, Mudėnar, and Mudonur. This is a typical sample of one clan of the mistake which have to be allowed for in using the Collection in question.
