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should heedlessly take it away, the guilt will be that of slaying the same Brahmans and the same kine.
(Lines 57-59)-He who should take away land, whether granted by himself or by others, is born a9 a worm in dung for sixty thousand years. This general principle of religious fonndations for kings must be maintained by you in every age: again and again Ramachandra makes this entrenty of all these future monarchs. Om! Happiness! great fortune!
(Lines 59-60)-Of the sacrificial food-eqnal sharos (ure to be given to the senior god, rice 5 baļa, to the god Sadasiva 2 mini rice, the Dandanäyıkı (to receive) I miīna rice, to the gud Kosava 2 måna rice, the Dandaniyaka (to receive) 1 m Tna rion, to the god) Brahman 2 mana rice, the Dandanāyaka (to receive) 1 mana rice, to the god Bhairava 3 mäna rice, the Dandanāyaka (to receive) 2. . .
No. 29.-KALAS INSCRIPTION OF THE RASHTRAKUTA GOVINDA IV: SAKA 851
BY LIONEL D. BARNETT. Kalas-the "Kullus" of the old mape-is a village in the Bankäpar taluku of Dharwar District. Bombay Presidency, it is shown in the Indian Atlas quarter-sheet 41, S. E. (1904), in lat. 15° 6', long. 75o 28, and is situated thirteen miles towards north-east from Shiggaum. the head-quarters of the taluka, and about four and a half miles west-south-west from Lakshmēshwar, which is mentioned in our record under its ancient name of Paligere or Parikara. The earlier name of Kaļas, as this inscription shows, was Kädiyor, or more fully Eroyana-Kadiyur, that is, “Ereya's Kādiyur", because some one nained Ereys enclosed it and settled there, and verse 19 mentions the place as an agrahāra. The record shows that the place was in the Puligere or Purigere three-hundred district, the chief town of which was Parigere-Lakshmēshwar.
The present inscription, which is here edited for the first time from ink impressions kindly lent to me by Dr. Fleet, is on a stone tablet in the village, which was found by the agent omployed by Dr. Fleet leaning against a wall of the house of a person named Köneriya. The stone is rectangular in shape, surmounted by a projecting cornioe, over which is & rounded top. The cornice contains ll. 1, 2 of the inscription; the rest of the record follows on the rectangle below it, covering an area of about 3ft. 6 in width and 5ft. ' in height. On the rounded top above the cornice are sculptures: in the centre a liniga on an abhishēka-stand and 1 seated figure on the proper right of the latter, in a shrine; outside the shrine, a bull on the proper right, and a cow with sucking calf on the left, the whole being surmounted by the sun and moon. Unfortunately the stone has suffered severely in places from exposure, and hence there are a few passages in the record which are totally illegible and a few that can only be restored conjecturally, and the record does not lend itself to illustration. Happily however nothing essential is missing.
The character is Kanarese, of the type usual in the first half of the tenth centary. Most of the letters are about ' in height; but some of them are only about t". They are fairly well formed. The special characters for m and y mentioned above, vol. XII, p. 335, occur in three Canes certainly: the former in amal, 1. 56, the latter in elliyur, 1. 12, and gabhirateyol, 1. 58. The wpadhmaniya seems to be expressed by the letter like in the word which I have read as miparigrahamurin fi.e, for mish parigrahamuxe) in l. 41 (cf. above, vol. XII, p. 271).
It is entereil No. 90 in Professor Kielhorn's List of the Inscriptions of Southern India, vol. VII above, appendix.
To the sanse friend ! am inlebted for the loss of a preliminary draft of the greater part of the first half of the record, which has greatly facilitated my work,
