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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
[VOL. XIII.
(Verse 2)—"Too awful to be faced, oven when regarded from afar, he crossed over the Sahya (Mountains), drank up the ocean whose waters are naturally not to be traversed, eradicated the wicked, and settled the country ;' now the glorions Konkan has become free from dangers ": at this praise from the Emperor the ambitious Lakshmana became illustrious.
(Verse 3)- Is it the uncultured whom thou dost praise in the society of him who was a guardian of his own lord's camp, guardian of both the fanks of the Sahya (Mountains), guardian of the bracelets of the Lady Victory?
(Verse 4)-In the case of other men (their) positions as favourites...te (their) knowledge ... Verily this is great knowledge in the favourite : Lakshma was always wise ever since the cutting of (his) waist-jewel.
(Lines 21-24)-Om! Hail! On Tuesday, the fifth day of the dark fortnight of Ashādha of the 1045th Saka year, the cyclic year Sobhakrit, at the Dakshināyana-sar krinti [the sommer solstice], on that holy day king Jayakēģin granted to the god Sankara of Arakere, for the restoration of the worship, & field of black land consisting of) four mattar in Mareysvāda, a town within the district of Kundür, (together with one house of thirty cubits in length (and) . . . and a half in width by the measure of) the king's cubit, (and) a balambey-offu, on a universally respected tenure free from all conflicting claims.
(Lines 24-28) - Furthermore, saying that the worship of this god Sankara must be properly - carried on, king Jayakēsin at the ... ... sankranti on the new-moon day of Āśvayuja in the cyclio year Visvāvasu granted for the sake of the religious merit of his younger brother Udayarmadēva, in Halgundi, & town likewise within that same district, a field of black land (comprising) ten mattar, the boundaries of it being on the north the boundary of the demesne of Tadaködu, on the east the boundary of the field of Kalidēva-svēmi, on the west the fence of the town of Halgundi. .. on the south P] part two houses thirty cubits in length and eleven cubits in width by the measure of) the king's cubit and two balambey-ottu, on a universally respected tenure free from all conflicting claims.
(Lines 28-30)-Furthermore (there was) one (field of black land which king Jayak gin granted to the same god Sankara, (situate) west of the temple of the Mõlastbäna god of Kundür, (and comprising) a width of thirty-five (cubits) and a length of twice that, amounting to one hundred and ten (cubits) in the same cubit :
(Lines 30-34)-Furthermore, for the benefit of the fame god Baokars (there was) one garden, as regards which the servant of the same god, the Māhāśvara Prayage Bhatta, having purchased (the same) garden, comprising a thousand trees and a thousand creeping plants, in the field of Sagulada Malla Gāvanda's son Hacha Gayunda, (situate) on the east in the western field from Sattikabbe's tank, on the west of the great road, on the south within the grain-field of the nirottu, with a garden of sāgula on the west (and) Hakala Santi Gāvunda's grain-field on the north as its boundaries, made over the rent thereof into the hand of king Jayakēģin, on a universally respected tenure free from all conflicting claims
(Lines 34-38)-Furthermore, for the benefit of the god Sankara of Arakere, whereas the Sonabova Nāgavarmayya had purchased in Arakere, south of the wirottu, west of Hukala Santi Gārunda's field, north of Silagara Kanna Gāvunda's field, and east of the... field, an area within the town (used) for a garden comprising & thousand and eight hundred
1 These epithets are framed so as to suggest comparison with the exploits of the mythical sage Agastya.
* That is to say, ever since the day when he passed from childhood to years of discretion. Cf., e.g., Pampa's Vikramärjana-vijaya i. 46, ude-vani-tariyada munname,"before his waist-jewel was removed," 1.c. whilo he was still a child.
. This seems to denote some kind of rick or stack.
