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No. 24.] GADAG INSCRIPTION OF VIKRAMADITYA VI : THE 23RD YEAR. 349
and 67-73 are Kanarese, the remainder Sanskrit. The archaic ! is correctly preserved in negalo (11. 5, 8, 23) and iļdapan (1. 20); it is chauged to rin kirtt= (1. 3), erttaravuń (1. 28), arkkasin (1. 29), märpp- (1. 67); it appears as I in Cholao (11, 7, 9), negalchida (1. 14), pogaļvem (1. 46); and it is wrongly used in alda (1.4), aldan (I), 5, 8), kavaldu (1. 16), taguld - (1. 18), and taldi (1. 43). The v is changed to b after and before y and r in garbbao (11. 3, 16), agurblim (1. 3), diby= (1. 10), dēby= (1. 11), sārbbabhauman (1. 15), pūrbba [11. 16, 22, 40),
Orbbura (1. 19), sarsēbyan (1. 29), Kuntal-orbbiśraranam (1. 30), sēbyah (1.39), bhabyao (1.40), byoma (1. 51), sarbbo (1. 56), brātais (1. 56), byomni (1. 57), byacharanada (1. 63), byāknyanao (11. 61, 67). We find reduplication of a consonant before y in Sākallyan (1. 29), on which see Pāṇini VIII. iv. 47, Siddhānta-kaumudi 48 ; and a still bolder use occurs in lunļakavadd_(1. 9). The upadhmānīya occurs in lipēh=po (1. 10), nrip-antahpurao (1. 29), taihep (1. 40). Lexically interesting are: jagadala (1. 15), jhalappa (1. 15), tyatra (1. 59), byācharana (1. 63), and pattisa (1. 61). In sv-ārökshyāmas (1. 42), we have the epic combination of su with finite verb.
The record opens with a Sanskrit paragraph in praise of the Chalukya race, as a branch of the Lunar dynasty (11. 1-2). Then comes a long section in Sanskrit and Kanarese, mostly metrical (11. 2-47), to the following effect. Taila II, son of Vikramāditya [IV] and Bonthā dēvi, destroyed many Rattas (Rashtrakūtas), slew Muiñj, took the head of Panchula, and reigned for twenty-four years, beginning with the year Srimukha (11. 2-4). His son was Sityāśraya [Ak?! nkach grita Irivabedanga] (1.4); the latter had a younger brother, Disavarman, whose son was Vitr maditya [V, Tribhuvanamalla) (11. 4-5); and Vikramaditya had two younger brothers, Ayyaņg (II) and Jayasimhs (II, Jagidēkam ulla) (11. 5-7). Jayasimha's son was Trailökyamalla-Ābavamalla (Somēsvara I], who was a lion to the elephant RajēndraCholi, and in the fire of whose wrath the Chola was like a moth, and whose queen was Bachala-dēvi (11. 7-11). Their sons were Somēśvara (II) Bhuvanaikam ulla and Vikramaditya [VI] Tribhuvanamalla (11. 11-12). The former, after pursuing for sometime the course of righteousness, became infatuated with pride, and neglected his subjects' burdens, whereupon he was removed by the virtuous Vikramaditya (11. 12-13). Vikramaditya, after establishing himself, superseded the Sika era by an era called by his own name, the Vikram 1-varsha (ll. 13-14).* General eulogies of his manifold virtues and glories follow (II. 14-21). He appointed as his dharmadhikarin or chief superintendent of religious affairs Sömēsvara Bhatta,
learned and eminent Rigvēdi Brahman of the Mauna gotra, who was the grandson of Muh&dēva and son of Vamana Bhatta (11. 21-26). Somēśvara was also raised to the rank of High Minister, with all the tokeng of royalty (1. 26) ; und our author is diffusely eloquent over his many virtues, his high rank in the royal palace, his mastery of sacred and secular learning, his pious practices, and his princely beneficence, especially in the foundatioa of charity-houses, Brahmanic endowments, and monasteries for Vedic and other studies (11. 26-47). Then comes a prose section (II. 47-50), giving the full titles of Somē vara as Maha-pradhana, Dandanayaka, and aradhya of Vikramaditya, followed by 20 veraes (11. 50-67) which tell us that he fixed upon Lokkigundi as a suitable site for the establishment of his religion, and after due praises of that town and the local Thousand Brahmans record that he founded there a school for the study of the Prabhakara doctriues of Purva-Mimami. The prose is then resumed in a paragraph refording that on the given date in the reign of Vikramaditya VI Somēévara made a grant to the Mahajanas of Lokkigundi, evidently for the above-mentioned purpose (11. 67-73); and in the middle of this the inscription breaks oft.
On there and the following statements se Dyn. Kanar. Distr., p. 126 tt. I see Dyn. Kanar. Distr., p. 441. . See Dyn. Kanar. Dutr., p. 44. . This io not quite corrpot. A considerable number of the inscriptious of bis reign are dated in the Saks eru.
