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MIRAJ PLATES OF JAYASIMHA II.
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long. 76° 15' to the confluence of the two rivers some sixty miles east-by-south beyond Raichur. It may be said again here that we can see, now, that this Ededore conntry (and not, as had been supposed, the small Yedatore tāluka on the Kåvēri in the Mysore District) is the Idaitusai-nādo which the Chola king Rajendra-Chola I, whom Jayasimha II defeated, had been proud to include among his conquests. The grant registered by the record on the Miraj plates was made by Jayasimha just after having completely routed the mighty Chola," and was evidently made as an item in the celebration of his having won back the province which the Chola king bad wrested from the Chalukyas some eight or nine years earlier.
As to the Karaţikallu three-hundred district, there can be little doubt, if any, that its chief town Karaţikalla is a place which is shown as Kurrudikul' in the Indian Atlas sheet 58 (1827) and in the Hyderabad Survey sheet 81 (1886), in lat. 16° 9', long. 76° 34'. The place is in the Lingsugár tāluka of the Raichur District, and is eight or nine miles south of the Kțishņā and three miles on the north-west of Lingsugur. We may safely take the spelling given in the maps as meaning Karadikal; especially in view of the point that the name is given as Kararikul' in the Map of the Nizam's Dominions (1892; 1"=16 miles). The t which we have in the name as given in the Miraj record would easily be softened into the d which is indicated by this last spelling of the name, taken with the other : or it is even possible that the writer of the record confused the Kanarese karadi, 'a bear', with the Sanskrit karati(7), 'an elephant', which would be more familiar to him. The Karadikal which is mentioned in an inscription of the Chola king Virarājēndra I is probably the same place.
The village that was granted was Mādadājhüru, in the Karaţikalla three-hundred (line 69); and it was bounded by the following villages : on the east, Jālihāļu (line 71); on the Bonth, Unahalli (line 72); on the west, Vavvulikhēts or Babbulikbëta; and on the north, Govanti. These places cannot be located at present with any certainty. But it is quite possible that Jālihaļu is the Jalihal' of the maps, a large place in lat. 16° 22', long. 76° 50', about four miles south of the Kšishṇā, and twenty-three miles towards north-east-by-east from • Kurrudikul'. The name Jalihal' can only mean Jālihāļ, "the bäbul-tree waste land", from jali, the thorny babul tree, Acacia arabica', and hal, hālu, originally hal, hālu, 'waste land i An older form of the latter word is pal, with the variant patu. And the d in the Jålihảda of the record could easily come from the t of pāļu; or equally from the ?, ?, of hal, hal, halu. This identification, however, can only be put forward as a conjectare; because the other village-names cannot be found there, any more than anywhere else, and it is hardly safe, in such case, to rely too much on only one name out of several. But Jalihal being, as has been said, a large place, it may possibly have absorbed the lands of the other four villages, and their names may have thus disappeared.
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First plate. 1 Om? Svasti Jayaty-avishkritam Vishpor=vvårábam kshobhit-årạnavam dakshin.
onnata-da[m] shtr-agra-vibranta-bhuvanam vapuh || [107 106riyam-u paha
1 On the name of that tālaks, see p. 296 above, note 8. 1 Bee, e.g. Kielborn's List of the Inscriptions of Southern India, Vol. VII above, Nou. 727, 729, 733, 734.
* This place is not to be confused with the Kurrudukal' which is the Karadikal in the Kombavi twenty: tour mentioned in the Kembbavi inscription of A.D. 1054 : see p. 292 above.
* South Ind. Insors., Vol. 3, p. 201.
On connections between and d, see Kittel's Kannada Grammar, Pp. 117, 4; 190, 280 ; 211, 248, 2. • From the ink-impressions.
Denoted by a symbol.
Metro : Bloks (Anushţubb). • The Feries are not pembered on the plates.
10 Metre: Malini.
