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No. 10.)
TWO KADAMBA INSCRIPTIONS OF NIRALGI.
in the Sanskrit verses on Jl. 40-42 and the barbarous concluding formula. The archaic locours once, in pëlda, 1. 39; it is replaced by ! in balio, 11. 10, 33, baļiya, 1. 36, ali, 11. 39-40, and by Tin mēl-arkeyya, 1. 13 (a blunder for alheya) and érppattara, 1. 32. Iu regard to lexicography, we may notice baliyan=atti, 1. 10, and basiy-ati, 1. 33 (se above, inscr. A.), mänps, 1. 22, (?) tott-, 1. 22, (P) bridyatva, I. 22, poļisir, 1. 23 (perhaps connected with pole, "to shine" or “to be swung about”: should we then read here polepirn ?), aud ava inguinte, I. 28 (in Kittel's Dictionary avarigota).
The record is twofold, comprising two endowments, and probably was engraved at the time when the second was granted. The first (11. 1-13) opens by referring itself to the reigu of a Chalakya king whose name is here lost; but that it was Bhuvanaikamalla (Sõmēsvara II) is proved by tbe reference to him and the date in 1. 8. It then mentions (II. 3-5) thu Mahā. Mandalēśvara Vikramaditya-dēva (possibly the king's younger brother, afterwards Vikramiditya VI), and likewise (11. 5-7) & noble of the Pallave lineage nained BhuvanaikamallaPallava-Permånadi Visshņuvardhang-Viljayāditya, and boaring anong his other titles that of " lord of Koichi best of cities"; and it states that, when Vikramaditya and VishnuVardhana-Vijayaditya were at Bankāpura in the course of a tour of state in the service of kiug Bhuvanaikamalla, in Sakn 996, they granted the village of Basalte, in the Elambi Twenty, tu the 300 Mahajanas of Nirili for the maintenance of the cult o Rämēs vara (a well-known form of Siva) at Pombal!i (11. 7-13).
Then comes the second record (11. 13-43). It begins by introdacing, in prose, with the usual titles of his lineage and some others, the Kadamba Maha-Mandalesvara Säntivarman, " lord of Banavisi bast of cities" (11. 13-21), and extols his valoar and glory in four verses (11. 21-30). After this comes the formal statement thnt in Saka 997, when at Ufohageri, he, in concert with two other high officers of state, renewed the grant of the first record (II. 30-42). Bichchara Gangayya made the fair copy, and sadója engraved it (II. 42-43).
There are two dates. The first is given on 11. 8-9 as: Saka 936, Ānanda ; the fullmoon of Asvayuja; an eclipse of the moon. This seems to be regular. The tithi mentioned Was current at sunrise on Tuesday, 7 October, A.D. 1074, and ended about 20 h. 3 m. after mean sunrise (for Ujjain). On that day there was a lunar eclipse, in which total obscura, tion began 19 h. 30 m. after mogn synrise, while the above tithi was still carrent.
The second date is given on 11. 31-32 as: Saka 997, Rakshasa; Pushya suddha l; Sunday; tbe uttardyana-samkrānti. This is quite wrong. Pushya suddha l of given year corresponded to Friday, 11 December, A.D. 1075, on which it ended about 11 h. 15 m. after mean sunrise. The attardyana-sa in kranti, on the other hand, occurred on Thursday, 24 December, about 18 h. after mean suhrise, so that Friday was reckoned as the first day of Makara.
The places mentioned are: Kaiohi (11. 6, 7); the nele-vidu of Bankapura (1. 8); Pomballi (II. 10, 35); the Panungal Five-hundred (1. 12); the Elambi Twenty (11. 12, 36); Basaltir (ib.); Banavisi (11. 18, 30); the nele-vidu of Užohagēri (1. 32); and the tirthas (1. 37), besides a rather obscure phrase nad=ērppattara (1. 82), which is perhaps a mistake for nād=irppattara, "the Twenty of the county," viz. Elambi. Pomballi is the modern Hombli, lying 31 miles nearly south of Niralgi, in lat. 14° 49' and long. 75o 17. One is tempted to identify Uñohagori with the modern Wunchigöri, near Kumta; but the distance from Niralgi is considerable. Kanchi (Conjeevaram), Bankapara (Bankapur), and Pinungal (Hangal) are well known. Elambi and Basalûr do not seem to be traceable.
+ Soo Dyn. Kanar. Distr., p. 444 and n. 1. See Dyn. Kanar. Distr., p. 601.
