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TWO INSCRIPTIONS YROM KURGOD.
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malla Il's prosperity, due to his devotion to Siva, is described (vv. 22-24). Next we are introduced to a high minister of Rachamalla I, the General and Hadapavala (bearer of the royal betel-bag) Bèohiraja (Bécharasa or Bēohaiya), who built a temple to Siva-Svayambhu and presented a momorial on the subject to Piriya-Rachamalla, i.o. Richamalla I, who accordingly granted for its endowment in Saka 1095 an estate which he vested in a oertain Bāls Śivācharya, an acharya of the Kalamukhs and Lákulisvara theology,' as trustee (IL 33-44).
The second part (11. 44 to 47) tells us that in Saks 1103 Irmadi-Rachamalla, i.e. Richa malla II, made an endowment, comprising the village of Jintegrima and certain other conces. sions, to the same temple and trustee.
The third part (1. 48 to the end) records a grant of some land at Kasugodu to the same temple. And it then proceeds to tell us that, as the record euphemistically pets it, when Bēchirāja was going to Kailāsa in bodily form, that is, when he had died and his corpse was being cremated, his wives Baiļiyakka and Malpaniyakka entered the firs, that is, immolated themselves with his corpse by the rite of Suttee, and, just before doing that, obtained the permission of the raling prince for the making of certain other grante, naturally to the same temple.
The inscription contains two datos, regarding which Dr. Flest has given me the following remarks:-" In the first date (1.38 f.) the details are: the eyclic year Vijaya, being the faka year 1095 (expired,=A.D. 1173-74); the new-moon Mithi of Margasira; 88mavara (Monday); an eclipse of the sun. This date is an irregular one, in that the given tithi bad: Do connection with a Monday: it answers to Thursday, 6 December, A.D. 1173, on which der it ended at about 20 h. 16 m. after mean sunrise (for Ujjain). Also, though there was a total annular eclipse of the san, it was not visible in India.
* In the second date (1. 45) the details are: the ofclio year Plava, being the saks year 2108 (expired, A.D. 1181-83); the full-moon tithi of Karttika; Somaváre ; an eclipse of the moon. This date, also, is irregular, as the given tithi here again had do connection with a Monday: it answers to Satarday, 24 October, A.D. 1181, on which day it onded at about 6 h. 18 m. after mean sunrise (for Ujjain); and there was no eclipse."
Geographical names are fairly numerons in this record. The chief are : Kantala (u. 14. 17); the nele-vidu Kalyāņa (1. 16); the country of Ballakunde (IL 17, 19, 41, 47); Kurugodu (11. 20-1, 23-4, 39, 48); the rivers Niraha!!a (1. 39) and Uppavalla (l. 48); Badanahatti (1. 41): Biyanahatti (1. 42); Arakere (11. 42; 48); Domdavatti (1. 43); Sripura (1. 45); Tekkekal (L. 46); Araliyahāļu (1. 47); Hamgave (1. 47); Goranahāļu (1. 47); Jintegrima (1. 47); Orvsyalar (1. 48); Manivär (1, 49); and Sūgũr (1. 49). Of the site of Kurugodu, the modera Kargod, we have already spokon. The Ballakunde district, in which it lay, is mentioned a a three-hundred district in an insoription of A.D. 1107 at Harvinamadagu in Mysore (Ep. Carn., Vol. XI, Chitaldroog, Dg. 128 ; of. ibid. 126, and Program Report of Aut. Arch. Supt. for Epigr., South. Oircle, 1913-14, p. 88), and evidently was a division of the Sindavādi country, on which see Dr. Fleet's note in Ind. Ant., Vol. XXX, p. 257. It took its name from what is now an insignificant village on the western bank of the river Hagari or Vēdavati in lat. 15° 32', long. 77o, marked on the Median Atlad sheet 38 (1827) se “Bullakoondy" ; it lies about fifteen miles north-east-by-north from Kurgo. Badanhatts appears on the same map as " Badanhatty," about two miles S.S.W. from Kurg04; Orviyalar
See Progress Report of Asst. Archeol. Supt. for Epigr., Southern Circle, 1907-8, p. 88, 1914-16, PP. 88, 91, 101, and my remarks on the Yēwür inser. G, sbore, Vol. XII, p. 837.
Another epigraphio record of schee of Satte, also attended by the making of granta, i loand his the Nejati insoription of A.D. 1067, Vol. VI above, p. 215. It appears sloo in Ep. Carm., Vol. XI, Dg. 126, 128.
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