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INSCRIPTIONS AT I'TTAGI: A, OF A.D. 1112.
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(Verse 75) By performing duly pious works with extreme brilliance at the places called Nidugundi, Mangaļavura, the fortunate Lattalür, Bennekal, Vaqavür, Koravura, and the famous Riddhigāva, Mahadēva obtained a wealth of glory such that the earth will affeotionately praise (him) as long as moon, sun, and stars (endure).
(Line 69) Om! Hail! When the victorious role of king Tribhuvanamalla, refuge of the whole earth, favourite of Fortune and Earth, great Emperor, supreme Lord, supreme Master, ornament of Satyášraya's race, embellishment of the Chalukyas, was advancing in its course of successively increasing prosperity (to endure) as long as moon, sun, and stars: Om !
(Lines 70-71) Whereas king Tribhuvanamalla, for the supply of material for personal enjoyment, offerings, food-gifts, alms, and festival cloths for the god the Lord Mahadeva of the agrahāra Ittage and for theatrical entertainments (?), had granted (the) one (entire village) Bennekallu, within the Kukkanāru thirty, in perpetuity as long as moon, sun, and stars (endure), as a universally respected possession, with definition of the four boundaries within the tribhoga, to be held on tala-uşitti tenare for that god :
(Lines 71-72) Further, the General Mahādēvayya, high minister, Sandhi-vigrahi for the Kanarese country, Master of the Household, possessor of all titles of honour, such as : " the high chief of fendatories, who has attained the pafcha mahatabda, great angast general, terrifier of foes, moon to the night-lotuses of (his) kinemen, mine of the gems of polity, sun to the day. lotuses of the Brahman race, seeing as he speaks, pare in his Gotra, (behaving) as a son to the wives of other men, a lion to the elephants who are traitors to his lord, delighter of the souls of worthy men, a bee to the lotus-feet of king Tribhuvanamalle, a Skanda in the front of battle,"
(Lipes 72-76) Having delivered property into the hands of the sheriff of the great agrahara Ittage and the rest of the Four-hundred Mahajanas, who are endowed with the virtues of practice of the major and minor disciplines, scripture-reading, meditation, spiritual concentration, observance of silence, prayer, oblation, and ecstasy, gracious to sages, skilled in the scriptares of the Vēdas that issued from the lotus-mouth of Hiraṇyagarbha-Brahman, the Vědangas, and the ancillary sciences, in the traditional law, in the Parapes, in the six philosophical systems, and in the six modes of logic, gods in excellence of sweet speech, consommate masters of the rules of the traditions for the arvamëdha and many other sacrifices, having a lustre like that of the sun in the circuit encompassed by the ten points of space, trees of desire to dependents, shining in glory as far as the four oceapa girdling the earth on the east, south, west, and north resembling the profound ocean, lions to the elephants of sin, mines of gems of right judgment, teachers of philanthropy, having the firmness of the primitive mountains, indifferent to others' wives though they be like Tilottama, supporters of all learned men, conflagrations of doom to the homesteads of the thirty-two thousand forms of treachery, submarine fires to the oceans which are the armies of potent foes, sbatterers of the clouds of guilt, adamant chambers to those who come to them for refuge, -
(Lines 76-78) Did on Sunday, the full-moon day of Bhādrapada of the oyalio year Nandana, being the thirty-seventh year of the Chālukya Vikrama era, on the occasion of a transit (causing) an eclipse of the moon, daring & vyatipata, grant with pouring of water, for the personal enjoyment, oblatione, food-gifts, professors' stipends, clocks, and retinue of dancing-girls and attendants of the god Mahädēvēsvara, five-haadred mattar of the eastern fields, as & universally respected possession, free from all conflicting claims: the boundaries
1 As here, henceforth in all prose passagen I shall omit to translate fri and frimat when they are merely honorific prefixes.
• See Ind. Ant., vol. 19, p. 271.
Regarding this epithet ne voL 12 above, p. 254.
