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TWO INSCRIPTIONS OF SOMESVARA II: SAKA 993 AND 994.
constellation Pushya; Pärnu-amgira, apparently meaning Thursday (11. 35-36). Mr. Robert Sewell, who has been so kind as to examine these two dates, has calculated that these details, with the exception of the samkranti, point to Sunday, 13 March (corresponding to Chaitra su. 9), A.D. 1071, on which day the moon was in Pushya at mean sunrise, whilst the Vishuvatsamkranti secms to be the Mesha-samkranti, which in that year took place on Thursday, 24 March, according to the Arya-siddhanta. Hence it would seem that our author, as often happens, has mixed up two dates, Sunday, 13 March, and Thursday, 24 March.
The other date is given as: Saka 994, Paridhävi; Pushya su. 5; a Thursday (11. 48-49). This is irregular; for the given tithi corresponded to Monday, 17 December, A.D. 1072, on which day it ended about 16 h. 34 m. after mean sunrise.
The place-names mentioned are: the Belvala or Belvola Three-hundred (11. 7, 16, 28. 31, 46-48); the Puligere Three-hundred (1. 7); Annigere (11. 16, 50, 55); Müḍageri (1. 18); Gummumgola (1. 18); Iṭṭage (11. 18-19); Gavarivaḍa (11. 19, 50); the river Tungabhadra (11. 33-34); Kakkaragonda (1. 34); Mayürāvati (1. 45); Haligola (1. 59); the Kulu-palla (1.59); Baṭṭakere (1. 85); Arakere (1. 87); Aiyāvole (1. 88); the tirthas (1. 91); and Holagere (1. 95). Belvala and Puligere are here coupled together (1. 38), as often, in the phrase "the two (provinces together forming) six-hundred towns." Annigere is the modern Appigeri ("Anigeeree " on the Indian Atlas), in Navalgund taluka, in lat. 15° 25', long. 75° 29'. Gummungola is probably Gumgol, a village near Navalgund town, 22 miles W.N.W. from Annigeri, in lat. 15° 35', long. 75° 14'; there is another village of the same name near Mundargi, but it is rather too far away. As to Ittage, there are several towns or villages of the name which would suit ; one is the village whence come the inscriptions published above, Vol. XIII, p. 36, and another is the "Kasba Itgi" of the Bombay Survey sheet 332, in lat. 15° 43' and long. 75° 57'. On Gavarivaḍa see above. Haligola is probably Huligo!, a village 4 miles nearly south from Gawarwaḍ, in lat. 15° 31', long. 75° 42'. Baṭṭakere must be the modern Batgere, on which see Dr. Fleet's remarks above, Vol. XIII, p. 186. Aiyavole is now Aihole or Aivalli, a village in the Hungand taluka of Bijapur District, in lat. 16° 1' and long. 75° 52'.
TEXT.1
[Metres:-vv. 1, 24, Anushṭubh; vv. 2, 10, 12, 13, 15, 17,
Mattebhavikridita; 18, 21-23, Kanda;
vv. 3, 4, 19, Champakamala; vv. 5, 6, 9, 14,
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7, 8, 16, Utpalamala; v. 11, Sragdhara; v. 20, Muhasragdhara.] Brimat-parama-gambhira-ay&d-vid-Emgha-lhehehhanath jiy[*]-trailõkya-nāthasya sasanam Jina-sasanam [1]
2 Svasti samasta-bhuvan-asrayam Sri-Prithvi-vallabham
svara paramabhaṭṭārakam Sa
3 tyasraya-kula-tilakam
Chaluky-abharatam
vijaya-rajyam-uttarottar-abhivriddhi-pravarddhamanam-a-cham
4 dr-Erkka-taram saluttam-ire [1] tat-pada-padm-opajivi samadhigata-pamcha-mahasabda-mahamamḍalēs varan udara-Mahesvaram chalake balu-gamḍam [sauryya
marttanḍam] patig-e
5 ka-daḍam samgrama-Garuḍam manuja-Mandhatam kirtti-vikhyātam götra-māņikyam viveka-China (na)kyam para-nari sahodaram vira-Vrikodaram kō6 damda-Parttham saujanya-tirtthari mamḍalika-kampṭhira vam para-chakra-bhairavam raya-damḍa-gopalam Maleya mamḍalika-mriga-färddaļain frimad-Bhuva
VV.
mahārājādhirājam paramē
śrimad-Bhuvanaikamalla-devara
2 x 2
7 naikamalla-deva-pada-pamkaja-bhramaram sriman-mahamandale varam
Lakshmara
saru Belvola-münürumaṁ Puligere-münüṛum-ant-eraḍ-arunuru
8 mam dushta-nigraha-sishta-pratipalaneyim pratipalisuttam-ire | Vri Anug-A!käryyada sauryyad-a! vijayad-al Chalukya-rajyakke kara
1 From the ink-impression.
