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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
[VOL. XIV.
The date of the grant is given (11. 82-83) in the numerical words avatār-anga vēd-andu, i.e. 1470. Thus the record is dated in the Saka year 1470, corresponding to 1548 A.D., Kilaka, the month Āşhădha; the bright fortnight ; Prathama-dvadasi and Sunday. The Saka year 1470 is the earliest date for Sadāśiva that can be fixed from the copper-plate inscriptions known so far, though the earliest stone inscription of his time that has been examined is dated in the Saka year 1467. Thus the grant is of importance, as it is the earliest of the copper-plate grants of Sadāsivu yet discovered.
Among the names of personages appearing in the grant the most important is that of Rāmarāja, the Karnāta minister and brother-in-law of the king. Sadasiva bears the usual titles, of which Gaj-augha-ganda-bhērunda deserves notice. In South Indian Images of Gods and Goddesses' by Rao Sahib H. Krishna Sastri (p. 268) there is an interesting picture of a mythological bird, with two heads. It is seen in the pictnre to carry elephants in its talons and beaks.
Appalaraja, the son of Krishụaraja and grandson of Timmarāja, at whose request the grant was made, is stated to be of the Kaśyapa gotra, Apa tamba sūtra and the Solar race.
The names of the composer and the engraver appear as usual after the imprecatory verses at the end. It is interesting to note that the engraver and nis father are known by the same name. It has been the custom among Hindus that the grandson is given the name of the grandfather. The names of the father and son are identical in rare instances. Mallapa appears as the father of Virapa in the Unamañjēri Plates of Achyuta-Raya (above, Vol. III, p. 151) and in the Conjeeveram Plates of Ksishņa-Raya (ibid, Vol. XIII, p. 126).
Table of Donees.
Name.
Father's paine.
Gätra.
Verse,
Vēds of Sütr..
No. of trittis.
Yajus Do..
: : . , .
. . .
Vishņu!
singuri Dikshita 68 Narasimha : : 69 Akkaļo-Bhatta .
Yandati Narasimba
Purushottama-Bhatta 72 Jamba-Bbatta 73 Basavā-Bhatta . 14 Manangi Nerahari 75 Soma-Bhatta . 76 Narasimha : 77 Krishna-Bhatta .
Timma-Bbatta 79 Mallu-Bhatta
. . .. .
Munyangy-Appalo-Bhatta Siddhi Timma-Bhatta . Vēdam Bigbaya-Bhatta. Nära-Avadhânia . . Sideli Tirumalärys . Mundangi Appale-Bhatta. Vasanta-Bhatta . . singari Yajvan . Siddhi Timma-Bhatta . sirikuppa Timma-Bhatta . Ufukūru Timma-Bhatta . Sirukuppa Timma-Bhatta Vaddamäni Lingawn-Bhatta
Käsyapa Bharadvaja Vädhula Kaundinya : Bhāradrije . Kaśyapa Keundinya . Кавуара Bhäradvāja . Kausiks Atrēya . Kaufika Árivatsa
. .
.
.
Do..
[Probably Kēšavanātha mentioned in 1, 110 was the name of the priest in the temple of Cheppaköays. H. K. S.]
