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INSCRIPTIONS OF SUDI.
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24), announcing the transfer by Singapa to Soměsvara of certain lands in Saka 991 for the supply of nivēdya of the god (Achalośvara), feeding of ascetics, etc.; and the bounds of this estate are specified (11. 24-27).
This is immediately followed by a second record, beginning with a verse (11. 27-28), and then giving in prose the titles of a Dandanayaka of Bhuvanaikamalla, which include samadhigata-panoha-mahi-sabda, mahū-sämantadhipati, para-nīri-putra, satya-Rädhëya, and sāhusaVainatēya (11. 28-31). His name is defaced; here only the ending, -mayyan, is clearly visible; bat on I. 37 we can read with certainty Ko d ēvayyarit, while the two intermediate aksharas may with great probability be read as ttima. Accordingly we may provisionally read as the name (Kotti]mayyam on 1. 31 and Kottimadēvayyam on 1. 37. Several verses, beginning with a Mattēbhavikridita, are devoted to the praise of his valour and virtue (11. 31-36). Then comes the formal grant, stating that this Dandanāyaku, while administering the Kisukād seventy and another district, of which the name looks like Chandruvartti, assigned in Saka 997 an estate for the maintenance of the cult of Achalośvara (11. 36-40), the endowment to be under the protection of the six Gåvandas and eight Sețţis of Sundi (11. 40-41). Then comes another assignment, almost wholly illegible (11. 41-42), after which is a clause stating that a jeweller (manigāra) named Maddi Setti, son of a Setti whose name is effaced, but who is described as a gunada bedanga, of the Jewellers' Quarter in Sandi, granted for the same cult certain shops in Sandi and others in the rājadhani Vikramapura, the latter of which were part of his setti-sāmya or "liberty" possessed by him as a merchant (11. 42-45). These properties also were to be under the protection of the six Gåvandas and eight Settis of Sandi (1. 45). The record closer with a Kanarese admonitory formula of the usual kind (II. 45-48), the Sanskrit verses beginning Sāmänyõ=yan (11. 48-49) and Sva-dattāṁ para-dattām va (1. 50), a Kanarese postscript (11. 50-51) stating that the fair copy was drafted by Rävapayya, the town-clerk of Sandi (see above, inscription F, I. 63), who is here styled Bhaskara-dāsa, " slave of the Sun," in addition to the epithet Isvara-paida-pankaja-bhramara, the Sanskrit formula beginning Nyün-aksharam (11. 51-52), and salutations to Sarasvati and Ganapati (1. 52). On 1. 53 is a fragment of a third date ; [ba]hula saptami Aditya-våradandina dakshiņāyapasankranti-nimittan. L. 54 shews traces of some epithets.
The record, as we have seen, contains two dates. The first (11. 22-23) is as follows: Sa(fa)ka-varsha 991neya Saumya-samvatsarada Pashya su(su)ddha a[shtami] Bțihaspati-vāra. dol-uttarāyana-sa (sa)mkranti-nimittam. The second (1.38) runs thus : Sa(sa) ka-varsha 997neya Rakshasa (sa)-samvatsarada Pushya(?) . . . . . . uttarayana-samkranti. nimittam. I am indebted to Mr. Sewell for the following remarks on these data :
"(1) $. 991 cæpired=Saumya=A.D. 1069-70. In this year, by the Arya-siddhanta, the 8th śukla tithi of Pushya expired 6 h. 52 m. after mean sunrise on Thursday, 24 December, A.D. 1069, and was coapled with that Thursday. This, working by true tithis. Working by mean tithis, the result is the same; only the 8th tithi expired, by that calculation, 1 h. 34 m. after moan sunrise. Both were coupled with that Thursday. On the same day the Makarasamkrinti, the Uttarāyana-samkrānti, occurred, by the Arya-siddhanta, at 4 h. 55 m. after mean sunrise."
." (2) The year corresponds to A.D. 1075-6. In that year the Makara (Uttarayana)samkrānti took place, by the Arya-siddhanta, at 18 h. 10 m. after mean sunrise on Thursday, 24 December, A.D. 1075. The day was conpled with the 14th sukla tithi of Pausha (Pushya), which tithi expired (taken as a true tithi) at 2 h. 59 m. after mean sunrise on that Thursday; and, taken as a mean tithi, at 5 h. 40 m. after mean sunrise. In either care the 14 sukla of Pashya was coupled with that Uttarayapa-samkrānti day=24 December 1075. That is evidently the date of the record."
