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Agal (11. 26-27), where the accusative case seems to be the subject or predicate of the verb, somewhat in the same way as in Arabic, thus confirming the dicta of the grammarians (Kittel's Grammar, p. 394).
The subject of the record is a transaction, somewhat of the nature of a lease, concerning some estates. It begins with the usual prelude, announcing that Tribhuvanamalla-deva, i,e. the Chalukya Vikramaditya V, with the standing titles of his dynasty, was reigning at the time (11. 1-6), and that the Kisukaḍ seventy was under the government of his sister Akka-dēvi,1 described as "sharing in the enjoyment of the fruits of thousands of issues of unceasing supreme felicity, equal to a second Goddess of Fortune, a wishing-jewel of immeasurable bounty, a crest-jewel of discretion, uniform in speech, adorned with virtues" (11. 6-13). Then comes the date (11. 13-15), and after it the deed (11. 15 ff.), by which the six Gavundas and the eight Seṭṭis of Sündi, representing the laic administration, lease out to the Mahajanas, or heads of the Brahman community residing in the local Brahmapuri or Brahmans' quarter, certain specified estates, viz. 114 mattar of black land, which the latter are to enjoy on payment of a murggaru-vana, due when the produce of the fields is divided (bhatta-bhaga); and it is stipulated that they shall take due care of the estate, and not alienate the land or a single street in which they reside, in spite of any pressure.
The details of the date (11. 13-14) are: Saka 932, corresponding to the cyclic year Sadharana; the full-moon of Margasiras; a lunar eclipse. Mr. R. Sewell informs me that by the Arya-siddhanta the quoted tithi was current on Wednesday, 8 November, A.D. 1010, full-moon taking place 20 h. 45 m. after mean sunrise on that day; and by the Suryasiddhanta the moment of full-moon was 20 h. 41 m. after mean sunrise on that day. But there was no eclipse of the moon on that date; the only lunar eclipses in that year were on 1 April and 26 September.
Besides the reference to the Kisukaḍ seventy (1. 11), several place-names are mentioned in the specification of boundaries. The estate in question was bounded on the east by the lands of Siriguppe (1. 19), on the south by Samkalar (1. 20), on the north by the lands of "the town," viz. of Saḍi. On Kisukaḍ see Dr. Fleet's note on "The Kisukâd seventy district" in I. A., Vol. XXX (1901), p. 259 ff. Siriguppe is doubtless the "Sirugoopa" of the Indian Atlas sheet 58, about 2 miles E. S. E. from Saḍi, in lat. 15° 42', long. 75° 58'2; Samkalur is probably the "Sunkunoor" of the same map, about 2 miles S. S. E. from Südi, in lat. 15° 42', long. 75° 57'.
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1 [Svasti Samasta]-bhuvan-asraya Sri-Pri(pri)
2 thvi-va [llabha ma]hārā [ja]dhirājam paramēéva
3 ra para [mabhaṭṭā] rakam Satyaáraya-kula-tila (la) kam
4 Chaluky-abharanam śrimat-Tribhuvanamalla-dēvara
5 vijaya-jyam-uttar-star-äbhivriddhi-pravarddha
6 manam-a-chamdr-arkka-tāram saluttam-ire || Svasty-A
7 navara [ta]-parama-kalyan-abhyudaya-sahasra (sra)
8 phala-bho[ga]-bhagini dvitiya-Lakshmi-samaneya
9 ra[ga]pita-[da]na-chintamani viveka-chuḍāmapiga10-ka-vakyeyar-ggapada bedamgiyar-appa
1 See Dynasties of the Kan. Distr., p. 435.
There is also a "Sirgupi" shown on the Indian Atlas (1903) quarter-sheet 41 in lat. 16° 17' and long. 75° 48'. From the ink-impression.
