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the full-moon of Magha, answers quite regularly to Sunday, 17 January, A.D. 930, on which day it ended at closely about 11 h. 58 m. after mean sunrise (for Ujjain). The moon was in Aslesha at sunrise, and for about 20 hours after that. And there was a total eclipse of the moon, visible in India."1
In the way of geographical information the record mentions first the Kuntala province in the land of Bharata (1. 24-5), and places in that province the Purikara country, which it defines as a two-six-hundred district (1. 25): by this it means a combination of two districts, the Purigere or Puligere three-hundred and the Belvola three-hundred; see Dr. Fleet's remarks in vol. XIII above, p. 178. Mentioning this district again as the Puligere näd, it places in it a "great city" Puligere (1. 26): this is the modern Lakshmeshwar, in lat. 15° 7',. long. 75° 31': see the same remarks. And it then tells us that on the west of that city there was a town or village which it styles in several passages Käḍiyür and more fully EreyanaKäḍiyür, that is, "Ereya's Kaḍiyür." Verse 19 (1. 31) tells us that this place, known first as simply Kaḍiyar, became customarily styled Ereyana-Käḍiyür because someone named Ereya enclosed it, that is, apparently built walls round it, and made his abode there: who this Ereya was, remains to be ascertained. This Kaḍiyur or Ereyana-Kaḍiyür, which was of eourse in the Paligere three-hundred district, is evidently Kalas itself, through some entire change of name like that which has happened in the case of Paligere-Lakshmeshwar. Verse 19 styles the place an agrahara. At Kädiyar there was a tank named Kondaligere (1. 31), at which there was a temple of Siva which had been founded by someone named Kalide vasvamin (1. 36). The only other place-name is that of Brahmesvarapura (1. 69), which seems to have been a quarter of Kaḍiyür.
Govinda IV and Arikesarin.
Govinda IV and the ruler of Puligere were destined to come soon after the date of our inscription into a connection that was not contemplated in the roseate visions of Kavirajaraja, the author of our record. About this time Puligere was under the rule of Arikesarin II (vernacularly Ariga), a scion of the Chalukya race, who was a patron of the Kanarese poet Pampa, the author of the Adipurana (composed in A.D. 941) and the Bharata or Vikramarjunavijaya. In the latter poem Pampa glorifies his patron by identifying him with the epic hero Arjuna; and in the ninth asvasa, in a prose section following v. 52,3 we find the following interesting passage:
Chalukya-kula-tilakan-appa Vijayadityamge Govinda-rajam muliye talarade perag-ikki kāda saran-agata-jalanidhiya pempumam Gojjegan-emba sakala-chakravartti besasid-amdu vamda mahāsāmamtarai maral-iridu gelda samamta-chudamaniya viryyamuman-ativarttiyági mar-maleva chakravarttiyam kiḍisi tann nambi bamda Baddegadēvamge sakalasamrajyaman-or-amtu madi nirisid-Arikēsariya tol-valamumam samada-gja-ghat-aṭopam berasu nelan adire vamdu tagid Kakkalana tam man-appa Bappuvan-amkakaranan-oṁde mad-amdha-gamdha-simdhuradol-odisida vairi-gaja-ghata-vighat [t]anan-adatumaṁ parachakramgalan-amjisida para-saioya-bhairavana meg-illada ballaltanamumam kamḍam keldan ninage senasal-emtu bage baṁdapudu.
How can a thought of ill-will occur to you on seeing and hearing the greatness of that ocean to suppliants, who, when Govindaraja was wroth with Vijayaditya the ornament of the
1 See Sewell's Eclipses of the Moon in India, table E, p. 20; the exact moment of full-moon was 12 h. 11 m. after mean sunrise (for Ujjain).-J. F. F.
2 He gives a history of Arikesarin's family in asrasa 1, vv. 15-50, on which see Mr. Rice's preface to the text in Bibliotheca Carnatica, and Dynast. Kan. Distr., p. 380 f.
See p. 196, 1. 4 ff. of the edition in the Bibliotheca Carnatica. Lead tannam,
