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INSCRIPTIONS AT NARENDRA B, OF A.D. 1126.
creeping plants and a thousand and eight hundred trees, (and) whereas Silagara Kanna Gavunda had purchased (the area) within his field, Mailaladeviyakka, the consort of the high minister (and) favourite, the Dandanayaka Singarasa, having paid thirteen gadyana as a quit-rent for the same land and purchased it, [assigned it for the service ?] of the god Sankara
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(Lines 33-40). . . these two sums of gold at the Uttarayana-samkranti [the winter solstice] king Jaya kesin granted for the personal enjoyment of the god Sankara, on a universally respected tenure free from all conflicting claims.
(Lines 40-42)-Thus in respect of this establishment of the god Sankara of Arakere, on the day of full-moon of Magha in the cyclic year Viśvavasu, during an eclipse of the moon, king Jayakēsin [II], boon-born son of king Vijayaditya, boon-born son of king Jayakēsin [I], a scion of the Kadamba race :
(Verse 5)-To Sagara Bhatta, chief of Brahman sages, and to Śriyadevi was born the lord Prayage Bhaṭṭa, praised on the earth whose soil is encircled by the four oceans, active in worshipping Isvara's feet, purifying the Kasyapa Gotra, walking in the ways of the primitive teachings, traditions, and Vēdas, having glory extending through the quarters of space.
(Verse 6)-The worship of Bhava [Siva] was maintained, the lotuses of Maheevara's feet were hymned, dwellings of Bhava were raised, rites of homage to Bhava were performed, the lotuses of Bhava's feet were meditated upon, the feet of Bhava were found by this lord in (his) lifetime for all time: thus illustrious was the fortunate Prayagesvara.
(Lines 45-47)-King Jayakěsin, having visited the establishment of the god Sankara of Arakere, made it over with pouring of water to Prayage Bhaṭṭayya. The same Prayage Bhaṭṭayya to the five-hundred Svamins of Nalkupatți in the twelve-thousand
of Palasige
(Lines 49-53)-[Further] on the full-moon day of Magha in the cyclic year Visvavasu, during an eclipse of the moon, on that holy day king Jayakēsin's Senior Queen Mailalamahadevi granted for the worship according to the five rituals of the god Sankara (and) for the restoration of broken, burst, and outworn (parts of the building) a field (consisting of) ten mattar according to the rood of Kundur, in the eastern demesne of Daravaḍa, a town within the five-hundred of Kundur, (situate) in respect of its four bounds (?) to the west of the field of (the god) Lakkhapesvara on the west of Aneya-suṇḍil, and to the north of the boundary of the demesne of Navilür, with immunity from all conflicting claims.
(Lines 53-55)-So long as the sun and moon endure, (the following) as votaries of the same establishment shall protect it: in addition to king Jayakeéin, Malapayya Nayaka's son Govipayya Nayaka, (officer) of the Treasury, the minister Govipayya Nayaka, (officer) of the third Patthale, the minister in charge of the stores of the Bedchamber, Govipayya Nayaka, (and) the deputyofficer of the first Patthale, Mahadevappa.3
(Lines 55-57)-To those who shall religiously protect this establishment the merit will be that of giving in Benares a thousand kine to Brahmans learned in the Four Vedas; if one
1 This is a conjectural translation of savāsi, which is very clearly the reading (1. 45); cf. the substantive sācāsa. 2 This is apparently the estate and temple specified in the preceding inscription; see especially 1. 114 of the latter.
The functions of some of these worthies are not quite clear. The word patthale is apparently the same as pattala, which in northern inscriptions means a division of the country; whether the sense here is the same is uncertain. The sejjeya bhandari, "in charge of the stores of the Bedchamber," may be more or less identical with the vitanadhipa of the Sukra-niti,ii. 154-155. Palikata seems to be the same as palihalta (see Kittel, 1.v.), from pratikasta.
