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No. 10.)
TWO KADAMBA INSCRIPTIONS OF NIRALGI.
(Verse 3.) When, confronting foes with the fire of his paissant wrath, aha! he is slasing them; when by the might of his arm, burrah! he terrifies the Guardians of the Spaces, moves groat mountains, shakes the whole earth, brings dread upon the elephants of the spaces, dries up the ocean, what high spirit! Say, ho! is not the Radra of the Kadambas instantly effective in his wrath ?
(Verse 4.) In thy pride, O king, thou hast, with not a single one of them lacking. (Siva's) brandisbed sword, pike, skulls, parasol, khatvanga-club, trident, gleaming frontal eye, elephanthide, high mass of hair on the head, troops of fearful goblins as votaries, black throat, Gauri, occupying half of (Siva's) body, and (hair dressed in the shape of) a dovecot on the top of wondrous matted tresses radiant with the lustre of the half-moon who has obtained eminence.
(Lines 30-33.) Hail! the Maha-Mapdalevala who has obtained the five great musical sounds, lord of Banavāsi best of cities, the Maha-Mandalēsvara Santiverma-dēva, on Sunday, the first of the bright fortnight of Pushya in the cyclio year Rākshasa, the 997th (year) of the Saka era, on the uttarayana-sankranti, when he was at the standing oamp of Unchagēri in the Seventy (?) of the county, having sent a summoner and convened the Three Hundred Mahājanas of Nirili,
(Lines 33-87.) The Maha-Mandalesvara såntiverma-dēva, and the high minister, senior controller, (and) general Isvarammayya, and the high minister (and) controller Sobhanayya in concert, having laved the feet (of the Mahajanas), made over. with pouring of water Basalür, a town belonging to the Elambi Twenty, inclusively with full internal authority, for the personal enjoyment of the god Rämēsvara of the sanctuary of Pomballi, for the celibates and the twelve Brahmans worshipping the god, and for the charity-hall.
(Lines 37-40 : a prose formula of the usual type.) (Verses 5-6 : two oommon Sanskrit metrical formula.)
(Lines 42-43.) Biohohara Gangayga wrote the grant); the stone-mason Sidoja executed the order. Happiness! great fortune! Homage to Sarasvati.
No. 11.-THREE INSCRIPTIONS FROM HOTTUR.
By LIONEL D. BARNETT. Hottur-or, to give it its ancient name, Pottiyar-is & village in the Bankápur taluka of Dhårwår District, lying in lat. 14° 56' and long. 75' 16', some three miles nearly due south from Shiggaon. The ink-impressions from which the following inscriptions have been edited by me were prepared for the late Dr. Fleet, and are now in the possession of the Trustees of the British Museum.
A.-OF THE REIGN OF SATYASRAYA: SAKA 929. This inscription is cut upon a rectangular block, divided into six horizontal bands, and ser mounted by a stepped top; I can find no record of the site where it stands, or stood. The stone is a viragal, with soulptures of the usual type : in the uppermost compartment, a seated god with a fan-bearer on each side ; below this, lines 1-6 of the inscription; below this, the hero heing carried ap to heaven by deities, one on each side ; below this, lines 7-12 of the inscription; below this, a battle-scene, representing in the centre the hero with a bow, facing to the proper left and shooting against two archers, while a third man is falling pierced with
