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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
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Not many geographical names can be extracted from this dilapidated record. Besides the catalogue of kingdoms mentioned in 11. 3-4, the frequent reference to Sundi, and the ngual list of tirthas on 1. 46, we find only the rather doubtfal Kanchipura, i.e. Conjeevaram (1.8), the Nolambavādi thirty-two thousand (1. 16), the Kisukad seventy (11. 16, 37), the name that I have read tentatively as Chamdravartti (1. 37), and Vikramapura (1. 44). No. lambavādi is in the region of Bellary. On Kisukad see above, p. 76. Vikramapura is now Arasibidi.
H.-OF THE REIGN OF SOMESVARA II : SAKA 996. This is an inscription on a stone in the back yard attached to the house of the kulkarni Lachappă. On the panel at the top of the stone are sculptures, similar to those of the inscription G, except that the first panel on the proper right contains the figure of some quadruped, and there is no trace of the sun and moon. The top of the slab is rectangular, not rounded. The area covered by the writing is about 5 ft. 21 in. in height and 2 ft. 63 in. in width. The characters, which as far as 1.51 are normal Kanarose of the period, are between in, and in high. The special form of yl appears in bhumiy- (1. 27). On 1. 43 begin two supplements, of which the first is in a hand very similar to that of the preceding, and the second is in an awkward angalar script suggestive of the twelfth century.-The language of the first record, with the exception of the opening formula, the introductory verse, and the commonitory stanzas on 11. 31-37, which are Sanskrit, is Old Kadarese of the second period; the supplement on 11. 43-58 is of the medieval type of Kauarese. In the former, we may notice the retention of in negalda (11.7, 14), negaļdar' (1. 11), ildu (1.8). elpattara (1. 19 ff.), él-koti (11. 39-43), the mistaken upadhmaniya in vah-papad (1. 34), and the lexically interesting word mēle (1. 22 ff.). The first supplementary record has initial p changed to h in haļsao (11. 46, 51), but elsewhere retains the p. The second supplement presents hadada (1. 52), han [n]eradu (1. 54), hadināru (1.55), ha?[?]a (1.55), by the side of pa-donta (11. 53-55).
The subject of the first record is a grant by Bhuvanaikamalla (Sõmēsvara II). Opening with the formula Svasti Jayasch-abhyudayas-cha and the verse Jayaty-irish kritur, it begins its enlogies with the same verse (Balavach-Chola, etc.) as inscription F, followed by another stanza in the same strain (11. 4-7), and then in prose introduces Pamchalingace. vayya," the gentleman belonging to the God of the Five Lingas," who, as the context shews, is no other than Sömēsvara-pandita-dēva, known to us from inscription F; two verses in his praiso follow (11. 7-14). Then conies prose, stating that in Saka 9996, while in Vikramapura, Bhuvanaikamalls granted to this Pandit, for the support of the cult of Pancha-linga-dera (Siva), the towu Musiyagere, of which the bounds are specified (11. 14-28), with some futher details (11. 28-31). The document concludes with five of the usual Sanskrit verses (viz. those beginning Bahubhir=vrasulha. Sām inyo-yavit, Mad-variisa-jah, Sra-dattāli, and Na riskuri) and the usual Kanarese prose formula (11. 31-43).
Then begins the first supploment (11. 43-51). It opens with a clumsy Mattēlharikridita verse stating that Chākayya, the karang or commissioner of Kisukād granted lands on the sonth of the tomple of Ayi-limga-dēva (i.e. Pañcha-linga-deva: see above), for maintaining the cult of Chākēśvara, which evidently is a temple of Siva founded or re-established by him ; this estate was made over to Muni-Soma, or, as he is called further on, Somadēva-brati-pati or Somēsvarăry-öttama-evidently the same as the Sömēsvara mentioned in the fist part of this inscriptiou-having been purchased from the six Gāyundas (11. 43-45). Then come three
See above, Vol. XII, p. 335.
With the sound syllable sbort : see alove, V.1. X!11, p. 327.
