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INSCRIPTIONS OF SUDI.
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(11. 46-47). After these comes the statement that the fair copy was written by the town-clerk of Sandi, RĀvapayya, who is styled Bhaskara-dasa," slave of the Sun," and Isvara-pad-ābjabhramara, "a bee to the lotus-feet of Siva.'' The Sanskrit formula beginning Nyün-aksharum (1. 49), a mangala, and the ungrammatical words Ganapatyāya namah (1.50) conclude the body of the record. To this is appended a supplement, apparently of four lines. It mentions a man whose name seems to be Kattoja, who is described as Achalaivara da kaläviga, "the craftsman of the temple of) Achalesvara," and refers to a gift of some lands.
The details of the date (11. 24-25) are: the year 9 of the Chaļukya-Vikrama era, the cyclic year Raktákshi; the ninth day of the dark fortnight of Pushya; a Tuesday, Mangalavdra; the Uttarayaņa-samkrānti. On this I am indebted to Mr. Sewell for the following remarks: “By both the Arya and the Surya Siddhāntas (calculating for the trae tithi), Pushya bahula 9 was coupled in the given year with Tuesday, 24 December, A.D. 1084. The first year of the Chalukya-Vikrama era was, so said Kielhorn, apparently A.D. 1076-77. This confirms his fixture, since A.D. 1084-5 agrees with this record-year, the Chalukya-Vikrama year 9. The year 1084-5 was Raktákshi=Chalukya-Vikrama 9. The true tithi, Pashya bahula 9, ended by the Surya-siddhānta 10 h. 8 m. after mean sunrise on 24 December, A.D. 1084, and by the Arya-siddhānta 10 h. 4 m. after. The mean tithi ended 43 m. before mean sunrise on that Taesday, and would have been coupled not with Tuesday, but with Monday, 23 December, This seems to show that calculations were made at that time and place by true and not by mean tithis."
"The Uttarāyana-bankranti occurred on the same day (Pushya bahula 9), or 24 December, A.D. 1084, by the Arya-siddhānta 2 h. 3 m., and by the Sürya-siddhānta 2 h. 41 m., after mean sunrise. This, conpled with G (1) and G (2), seems to shew that the solar day of the turn of the year was considered of great importance in Dharwār at that time."
The places mentioned are not many. Besides the races named in v. 2 and the usual tirthas on 11. 39-40, we have only Kalyāna (1. 23), sündi (1. 27, etc.), the Kisukād seventy (1.28), Porgari (11. 28-29), and a few minor localities, the names of which are mostly illegible. Kalyāna is the capital, Kalyāni. On Kiga kād see above, p. 76.
TEXT OF LINES 2-29. [Metres : Sragdhard, v. 2; Champakamāla, v. 3; Kanda, v. *; Mattēbhavikridita, v. 5.] ? Om Samasta-bhuvan-asraya Sri-Prithvi-vallabha ma3 bārāj-ādbirāja paramēśvara paramabhattárakar Satyāśraya-kala-tilakam Chāļuky
abharanam 4 frimat-Tribhuvanamalla-Vallabham Vpitta Svasti erimach-Chaļuky.
invaya-gagana-sudhā-rochiy=85 namna-bhübhsin-mesta-nyast-āmghri-padman Npiga-Nala-Nahush-ady-ādi-bhūpāļa-li!
vistirnn-Ātma-prabhavam 6 vimala-nija-yabo-vallari-vyåpta-dikpala-stomar mürtti-Nārāyapan=ene negarddam
Vikramādityadēvam 11 [2] 7 Idadi(ri)na Choļikam kalake värane Lāļana lile dūram=ädudu Malepar
kkadangi tale-dorade Kom
Cf. above, p. 95. Denoted by the spiral symbol. For negaldan.
. From the ink-impressions. • Cf, above, p. 86.
