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SORATUR INSCRIPTION OF AMOGHAVARSHA I.: A.D. 869.
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4 Ādaval-vamg-otbha(abba)va rana-mukha-dhavala shad-gun-alarnkäran-Āhav.5 ditya-srimat-Kuppēya[mo] Purigere-nādan=ale Virodhi-samvatsara[m] 6 pravarttise tad-antarvarttiy=āgatt-ilda Ashadha-miss-su. 7 ddh-shtamiya[..] Bțihaspati(ti)vārad-andu[m] naya-vinaya-satya8 Sauch-kobāra-bila-sampannan-appa frimat Viļikkara-NA9 giyamma-gimundar chandr-ādityark[k]a!=uļļinam Srivayi[la]. 10 n-nirisida [n] [11"]
TRANSLATION Om! Hail! While the glorious Amoghavarsha (I), the favourite of the Earth, the Maharajadhiraja, the Paramätuara, the Bhatara, is reigning over the earth :
(Line 3) Om! Hail! While Abavāditya, the illustrious Kuppēya,-who has cut up the array of (his) enemies with (his) sharp scimitar; who is possessed of prowess who was born in the (?) Ādava race;' who is dazzling in the van of battle; who is adorned by the six virtuos, -is governing the Purigere district :
(L. 5) While the cyclic year Virõdhin is current ; on the eighth tithi of the bright fortnight of the month AshAdha which is in this (year), and on Thursday,
(L. 7) The honourable village head-man Viļikkara-Nagiyamma, who is endowed with prudence, modesty, truth, purity, good behaviour, and good character, has set up the Srivāyil gateway, to last as long as the moon and the sun.
1. Ron inscription of the time of Amoghavarsha I.-A.D. 874. Ron is the bend-quarters town of the Ron taluka of the Dhārwār District: it is shown in the Indian Atlas quarter-abagt 41, S.E. (1904), in lat. 15° 42', long. 75° 47'. It is mentioned by the name which it still bears, 86 Röņa, in the present record, and in I below, and in the Adaraguñchi inscription of A.D. 971. The place was in the Belvola three hundred district which, however, is not mentioned here.
At this place, too, there are several inscriptions. The present one is on a stone tablet at a temple of Basavanna, inside the town. I have no information as to whether there are any sculptures at the top of the stone. The writing occupies an area about 2' 31" broad by 2' 6" high. As may be seen from the Plate, it is considerably damaged, and much of it from line 8 onwards is quite illegible. But all the historical matter in it can be read; and it has been found worth illustrating because it is interesting from the palmographic point of view.
The characters are Kanarese, boldly formed and well executed. The size of them ranges from about " in the d of idan, 1. 10, to 11" in the j of mahājanake, L. 8: the ti at the end of 1.12 is about 2 high. Of the test-letters kh, i, j, b, and I, the kh does not occur here: the others show here, again, a mixture of the earlier and later types. The ri is found once, in samvatsarangal, 1. 4; it is of the earlier, square type. The j is found five times : in rījya, 1. 2; and jaya, 1. 5, it is of the later, cursive type ; in-dhiraja, 1.2, and mahajanake and pujya, 1. 8, it is of the earlier, square type, in the particolar form which has been noticed under the inscription G above. The boocurs three times in tombattu, 1. 4, and emba, 1. 6, in both of which words it is subscript, it is certainly of the lator, cursive type; in ballava, 1. 7, where it is somewhat damaged in the upper right corner, it seems to be of the earlier, square type, in the form baving the curl upwards on the left of the top stroke which matches the form of the earlier j of this record. The l is found four times, and also twice subscript, in 11. 1, 4, 7, 11;
1 The second syllable of this name is damaged: it may be d, or d, or perhaps . See p. 177 above, and pote 2. • See the preceding note.
Ind. Ant., vol. 12, p. 256, 1. 15.
