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and they appear to be of the period circa 900 A.D. They are throughout archaic in type. In embol (line 5) we find the special form of m noted above, Vol. XII, p. 335.-The language is Kanarese, of the oldest dialect; the locative case however is in -oļ, not the archaic -u], and we find the short genitive in na, the short accusative in -an (matan, sõlaman, 1.3) beside that in -an (yasaman, 1. 4), and the later forms padedam (line 4) and nirisidal (line 5), beside the archaic embol. It appears to be in metre, probably some kind of shatpadi.
TEXT.1
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1 Svasti eri-Turagana mane-magati • • • • • Vvairi. 2 d-icharyyan-Turagā nin-ly-edeyo!=i]du kalam gels (e)3 ndod-a mätar-ollad-[i]re solama[m] kandatan-[i]re bolalaga4 d-end-Etanim munns nadad-irida padedar yasamán=ātango 5 • Labbe Lachchhakkan-embol-ake nisisida!-1 kallar
TRANSLATION
Hail ! ... the steward of the fortunate Turaga ... when the Acharya of ... said: “ Turaga, stand in this place and conquer the base man,"5 when he [? Taraga] did not agree to that speech, and saw (the prospect of) defeat, he said: "We must not be defeated," and, advancing in front of him [? Turaga], and stabbing the enemy), he won fame. For him the mother ...she who is named Lachchhakka, set up this stone.
B.-FRAGMENT OF A GRANT.
This record comes from a stone baried in the road of the quarter known as the Chalavidiköri ("street of the Holeya ascetics "). The stone is divided into three vertical bands; the central band has a curved top, on which is & sculpture representing & liriga on an abhishikastand with a ball on its proper right. On these three bands the inscription is incised. Impressions of only three fragments of the record are available, as apparently the remainder is entirely effaced. Of these three, the first, (u), is almost illegible, only a few letters being decipherable. Of the other two, (b) and (c), I append the text. The area of (a) is about 1 ft. 5 in. in width by 11 in. in height; that of (6) about 11 in. in width by 2 ft. 4 in. in height; and that of (c) about 94 in. in width by 2 ft. 8f in, in height.--The characters are Kanarese, rather coarse in type, and measuring from 11 in. to 11 in. in height. They seem to belong to the early part of the tenth century A.D., perhaps a few years later than the preceding rocord. In the main their character is distinctly archaic; but the vowel s is written indifferently in the earlier and in the later manner.-The language also is archaic Kanarese, shewing however the short endings of the accusative and genitive and the locative in -01.-The subject is the endowment of a reli.. gious charity. Fragment (b) informs us that the formal ceremony of the endowment was
From the ink-impressions. I am indebted to Dr. Fleet for much belp in the readings of this record.
* The first four of these five aksharas may be read variously : Dr. Fleet suggested Vitaraga, but the traces seem to me to point to a name like Nitturas. * There is a letter subscript under the l.
There seems to be an i on the top of the g. . Kalan gel may also mean "wiu (by victory) food." Apparently the Acharya promised Turaga victory, it he held his ground; but the battle went against him, and he expected to be defeated and killed; then his nanomagati rushed in front of him and saved him, at the cost of his own life.
. That is, he found hero's death.
