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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
[VOL. XIIL
No. 28.--INSCRIPTIONS AT NARENDRA.
BY LIONEL D. BARNETT. Narēndra is a village in the Dhārwār tāluka of the Dharwār District, Bombay. It is situated near the highroad from Dharwār to Belgaum, at about four and a half miles northWest-by-north from Dhārwār, and is shown in the Indian Atlas quarter sheet 41, S.E. (1901), in lat. 15° 30', long. 75° 2'. Dr. Fleet gives me the opinion, with which I agree that the general parport of the records shows clearly that the original name of this place, down to at least the twelfth century, was Kundür, and the town was the chief town of the Kundär fivehundred district: with this complete change of na.ne from Kundär to Narendra he compares the well-known case of the ancient Parigere, Puligere, which is the modern Lakshmoah war, and the case of Kammudavāda, which is the modern Kalbhāvi.
There are four inscriptions at Narēndra. Two of them are so much damaged that the contents of them are undecipherable: it can only be said that they belong to the twelfth century or closely thereabouts. I edit the other two from ink-inpressions placed at my disposal by Dr. Fleet. A.-OF THE TIME OF VIKRAMADITYA VI AND THE KADAMBA
JAYAKESIN II: A.D. 1195.
This record is on a stone tablet standing on the right of a temple of Mallikärjuna in the field Survey No. 3 of Kumbā pár or Kumbhåpár, a hamlet of Narondra, between Narendra and the highroad, not shown in the Indian Atlas slieet.
At the top of the stone there are sculptures : in the centre, inside a shrine, a linga on an abhishēka-stand, with a priest standing to it and apparently pouring a libation over it; on the right, a cow and calf, with a scimitar above them and a tall lamp-stand behind them; on the left, the bull Nandi, kneeling towards the linga, with a similar lamp-stand behind him; on the upper right, the sun; and on the upper left, the moon. The area covered by the inscription measures from 2 ft. 6 in. to 2 ft. 8} in. in width by 6 ft. 10 in. in height. The record is unfortunately not very well preserved, and does not lend itself to any satisfactory reproduction : in several places the surface of the stone is badly weather-worn, making decipherment uncertain and in some cases impossible. The difficulties raised thereby, however, affect only the reconstruction in fall of the verses: the historical, geographical, and practical part of the record can all be made out satisfactorily.
The characters are Kanarese, of the period to which the record refers itself: their avorage height is about in.-The language is Old Kanarese verse and prose, with the exception of the introductory Sanskrit stanza. The vocabulary contains several points of interest: we may notice dhavaļāravan, 1. 10; chāga-jaga-jhampan jhampal-achäryyan, I. 18, tyāga-jaga-jhampi jhampal-acharyya, 1. 99, and tyäga-jaga-jhampan=arddh-lingi, 1. 104, on which see Dr. Fleet's remarks in his paper on the Bhāndap plate, above, vol. XII, p. 251; jimkarisal, 1. 22; drttu, 1. 24, which appears to belong to Kittel's ār, 3, of which only the infinitivos ära and are and the verbal noun āru hitherto hare been noted; elare, 1. 32, which seems to be the simple verb from which is formed the derivative elarchu ; bhuvana-bhu mbiukan, 1. 36, a phrase found elsewhere, which still awaits explanation; chagildur, 1. 52, which must be connected with dhagil and dhaga; kaneyam, 1. 61, "younger brother"; Dudpāra, 1. 69, for Doāpara ; bil-vadde, 1. 70, on which
Ind. Ant., vol. XVIII, p. 310.
One of these is on a stone on the right of the temple of Banlaralings in the field Survey No. 9. The other is on a stone near a Matha in Sarvey No. 183.
