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staff, on the south of the lake of the arikole [Alangium hexa petalum], below the Buffalo's (?) Tank, and three mattar of red-black (P) land in the Tamarind Lake on the east of Barebbe, and one mattar of black-loam land north of the road of Pāvari, and twelve houses.
(Lines 25-29.) Op this, 30 kamma paddy-field, 25 kamma black-loam land, are to go to the god ; 30 kamma paddy-field, 25 kamma black-loam land, 1 mattar red-black (?) land, to the monastery, for giving instruction ; 20 kamma paddy-field, 25 kamma black-loam land, 1 mattar red-black (2) land, to the flute-players; 20 kamma paddy-field, 25 kamma black-loam land, 1 mattar red-black (P) land, to the drummers-inclusive of the twelve houses--as a sarta-namasya holding (to last) as long as moon, sun, and stars. One kuļa and 1 mattar red land are to be for the use of the stone-mason Sabboja, who made this.
(Lines 29-31 : & probe formula of the usual type.) (Verses 7-8 : two common Sanskrit verges.)
(Lines 33-34.) The meaning of these verses shall be laid to heart and the pious foundation protected. The chief ascetic in the monastery shall have a charter of virtuel ; ascetics who break the vow of chastity must not remain.
(Lines 34-36.) The Seventy of Sigunar in assembly granted for the tank a right of sowing in the paddy-field below the tank,' above the embankment of the Lotus-tank on the south of the town.
(Linea 36-37: a prose formula of the usual type.)
(Lines 37-38.) Gurubhaktar-Acharya wrote this edict. The characters were cut by the stone-mason Dēmoja. Happiness! great fortune!
No. 22.-SIRUR INSCRIPTION OF THE REIGN OF JAYASIMHA II: SAKA 963.
BY LIONEL D. BARNETT.
Sirür, anciently called Sirivura (lines 10 and 14 below), is a village in the Gadag taluka of the Dharwār District, Bombay Presidency, lying in lat. 15° 21' and long. 75o 497', about 3 miles NNE. from Alar. The present record is found on a stone near the southern door of the local temple of Toranagalla-Brahmadova, and a transcript is given in the Elliot Collection (Vol. I, fol. 41b., of the Royal Asiatic Society's copy). An ink-impression was made for the late Dr. Fleet, who bequeathed it with others to the British Museum ; and from this I have edited the text. The stone is surmounted by a sculptured pediment, of which part of the top on the proper right is broken off. The main band of this pediment is divided into three compartments, separated by columns. The central one contains a linga on a stand, with a worshipper standing facing it on the proper right; the one next to this on the proper right contains a squatting figure, with traces of something else ; and in the one on the proper left is a cow suckling a calf, above which, in an upper band, is the moon; the corresponding sun was apparently on the lost part. Under this pediment is the inscribed area, measuring in width about 1 ft. 74 in. and in height about 2 ft. 11$ in.-The character is Kanarese of the period; the script is well rounded and regular, with letters varying in height from in. to 1 in. The tha in 11. 11, 17 is almost indistinguishable from ra.-The language is Old Kanarese, except in the two formal verses at the end. The Lappears correctly in baliya, 1. 7, and alidavain, 1. 21 (beside alidha, 1. 23), and wrongly in ilnūrwara, 1. 12, for iranärvara. Of some lexical interest are kuinchavaduga, 11. 12-13, pannasiga, 1. 13, and pannasul, 1. 14.
This seems to mean that he shall bold office quamdiu se bene gesserit.
'[1 would construe what follows with nered-irdds, i.e. having assembled above the embuukment, etc. -H. K. S.]
