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MIRAJ PLATES OF JAYASIMHA II.
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a fragment, consisting of parts of fourteen liues : the king's name and the date are lost; bat the record is markedly earlier than the others, and may be referred to about A.D. 1000. The record speaks of the place, in the first extant line, as frimat Mudunir, " the fortunate Mudunir", and thus presents a form of the name which matches exactly the Mudunirs (Sanskrit) of the record on the Miraj platos. Accordingly, Hire and Chikka Mudanur being only thirteen miles east-half-north from Tumbagi, which, as we have soen, was in the Pagalatti three-hundred, we find here the Mudunira in the Pagalati district which is mentioned in that record. The insoriptions do not distinguish between & Piriya and a Kiriya-Mudinir; whence it would seem that the growth of the place into the two separate sites now known as Hire and Chikka Mudanar dates from after the epigraphic period. The change from the original name Mudunir, first to Mudinir and then to Mudanir, seems somewhat peculiar, but can only be accepted as a fact, without full explanation : as regards, however, the first component of the name, Kittel's Kannada-English Dictionary gives mudi as another form of mudu, advanced age; old. As regards the expression the
fortunate " Mudunir,- the place was evidently & large one, as the inscriptions give the number of its Mahajanas, i.e. Brahmans, as five hundred; they speak of it, from A.D. 1099, As an agrahara ; and some of them style it "Benares of the South ", the full description being fri-Rama-datti sarvanamasyad-agrahāran dakshina-Varanasi Mudinir :3 this stands already in the record of A.D. 1099. The place is mentioned again, as Mudunira (Sanskrit) And as the home of a spiritual ancestor of the grantee, in the Miraj plates of the Silähåra prinoe Marasimha of A.D. 1058.4
The next step is taken by means of the same inscriptions at Hire- and Chikka-Mudantir. One of them, at Chikka-Mudanir, dated in A.D. 1099, records grants which were made to the god Kumārēśvara of the mulasthana, or original settlement, after laving the feet of the Acharya of the god Ugra-Bhimosvara of a place the name of which it gives in line 26 as Hagaritage and in line 45-6 as Hagalittage. And another, at Hire-Mudapür, dated in A.D. 1129, mentiong two local districts in specifying the tolls and taxes wbich were assigned to a god named Márkapdēśvara : these are, in lines 25, 27 and 34, the Sagara five-hundred, and in lines 29-30 and 33 the Hagarittage three-hundred.
Finally, the place thus mentioned as Hageritage, Hagalittage, and Hagarittage, and marked as the chief town of a three-bundred district, we identify easily enough with a village of which the present name seems to be written indifferently as Hagarattagi, Hagariţige, Hagarittige, and Hagariţtigi: it is in the same täluka of the Gulbarga District, and is situated sixteen miles towards south-west-by-west from Hire- and Chikka-Mudanúr, and is shown as 'Hugurtungee in the Indian Atlas sheet 58 (1827), in lat. 16° 34', long. 76° 25', and as “Haggatagi' in the Hyderabad Survey sheet 53 (1909). There are seven inscriptions at this
1 When my man visited the place, in 1891, the stone bearing this record was found "lying below a bábul tree on the north of a temple of Råmēsvara": it was placed, I hope, for safe keeping, inside the temple.
? This record does not use the term agrahara : see below.
With the first term Rama-datti, compare the epithet Pandava-datti applied to Hagariţtage : see note 3 on p. 808 below. Compare also the epithet Janamajaya-datti applied to the mahägrahara Malad-Alür in the Alur inscription of A.D. 1124 which follows the record of A.D. 1091 Elliot MS. Collection, vol. I, p. 207 and see Ind. Ant., Vol. VIII, p. 28.
• Archeol. Sure. West. India, brochure No. 10, p. 103, line 33.
• Regarding this district, which is mentioned as only a three-bundred in the Yöwür records of A.D. 1054, 1077, and 1105, see my remarka at p. 272 above. In this Hire-Mudanur inscription of A.D. 1129, the numerion! component of the name is given in figures, not in words: but the figures are quite clear in all three places. In the inscription of A.D. 1218 at Chikka-Mudanur, we have, in connection with the people who joined in making the grant, Sagaratayinürun-bada in words, twice at lonet.
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