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No. 6.]
11 [śrl]mad-Akka-dē viyar-Kkisukaḍ-ēlpattumaṁ dushta12 nigraha-visishța-pratipalanadiṁ sukha-samkatha-vi13 nodadind-ăldu rajyam-geyyuttam-ire Sa(sa)ka-varsha 14 932neya Sadharana-samvatsarada Marggasira15 da puppameyol-ada soma-grahapadandu Să
16 nḍiy-aruvar-ggåvandamgalum-enbar-sse[t]t[igalum (?)de]17 [var sannidh&ondol-alliya bra [hmnpai]
INSCRIPTIONS OF SUDI.
18 ya mahajanakke bariyal
19 lagana bhumi mñḍal [Sirigu]ppeya pola20 da mēre temkalu Samkalūra sime paḍuval
[0].
21 ṭṭanesvarada polada mere badagalu p[u]rada pola22 da mereyimd-olage dhara-parbbakaṁ mü[r"]ggaru-va
23 pamam tett-upb-amt-ngi bitta ereya mattar
24 nāru padinālkum bhatta-bhagam=ādoḍuṁ
25 mürggaru-vanamam tiruvar=å bhümiyu
26 man-avar-ilda keriya-l-nondum kshudr-padravama
27 n=agal-iyade sva-dharmmadim [pratipalisu] var |
28 ok så
så
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D. OF THE REIGN OF SOMESVARA I: SAKA 973.
This record is written upon a stone slab near the plinth of a local math belonging to the Karasthaladavarn. The stoue, which appears to be without sculptures, has a width of 2 ft. 3 in.; the maximum height is 3 ft. 4 in., the lower part being incomplete. What remains of the text is for the most part well preserved.-The character is a good Kauarese hand of the period. The letters, varying from in. to in. in height, are well shaped, and resemble those of C, but shew a slight tendency towards a more upright and rounded type.-The language is throughout Old Kauarese prose. The archaic is kept in e° (11. 7, 23), ildu (1. 14), and nālk(1. 23), but is changed to in polal- (1. 24) and kilila (1. 26); and final -m sporadically turns to -v in panav (1. 28). Śraheya (1. 20), ara-talaram (1. 24), and mamchal (1. 25) are of some lexical interest.
The document has a somewhat unusual interest in its relation both to history and to social organisation. It begins by stating that the reigning sovereign was the Chalukya Trailōkyamalla (Sōmēsvara I), and the Kisukaḍ seventy, together with the Torugare sixty and the Māsavāḍi hundred-and-forty, was being administered by Akka-devi (11. 1-9) and then states that in the nele-vidus Pannāleya-kōṭe, on the specified date, seven royal ministers namely the mane-vergade or Steward of the Household, two tantrapalas or Councillors, a pradhāna, an aliya, a Steward of the Betel-bag, and a secretary to the Council-in concert with the Commissioner of the County (nada pergade) and other administrative officials granted to the eight Settis and eighty households a renewal of their corporate constitution, which had partly
The ffa is not very certain.
See Dynast. Kanar. Distr., pp. 435, 440.
1 Uncertain; it may be siriya.
An order of celibate Jangamas, or Lingayat ascetics.
On this term see below, on inscr. F, p. 86.
It is perhaps worth while to call attention to the number seven. Similarly the Mahabharata, Sabha-po. v. 23, speaks of seven prakritis, which Nilakantha explains as referring to the commandant of the citadel (durg-adhyaksha), controller-general of the army (bal-adhyaksha), chief justice (dharm-adhyaksha), commander of the army in the field (chami-pati), chaplain, physician, and astrologer. The Kaufiliya, i. 15, speaks of 12, 16, or more members of the council of ministers. Manu, vii. 54, recommends 7 or 8; the Milinda-panha, IV. i. 36, mentions 6, viz. the commander-in-chief, prime minister, chief judge, chief treasurer, bearer of the sunshade, and bearer of the sword of state. Somadeva in his Niti-räkyämrita, ch. x., recommends 3, 5, or 7.
