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No. 11.]
THREE INSCRIPTIONS FROM HOTTUR.
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full-moon day of Paushya was Punarvasa. Calculation by mean longitudes and motions will not remove these discrepancies ; for it gives as tithi and week-day the same date (Sunday, 26 December, A.D. 1064), with Friday, 24 December, for the uttarayana-samkrānti, and Punarvasu as nakshatra.
The places mentioned are: Pottiyur (11. 5, 8, 15, 22, 30, 32 f.), Elavatti (1. 6), Nittasingi (1. 6), Handiyar (1. 6), the Male or Highlands (1. 11), Banavasi (1. 11), the Banavāsi Twelvethousand (1. 14), the Pānungal Five-hundred (1. 14), and Kõvagere (1. 33 f.). Elavatti is the village called Yelawati in the Bombay Postal Directory and Yalvatti in the Bombay Survey ; it lies in Hängal taluka, in lat. 14° 51% and long. 75o 101. Nittasingi is now Nidsingi (Nidsangi in the Bombay Survey), in the same taluka, in lat. 14° 52' and long. 75o 10%. Handiyar I cannot locate, unless (which I doubt) it is to be identified with "Handihál" of the Survey, a village 4 miles nearly west of Hangal town, in lat. 14° 45' and long. 750 5.
TEXT. [Metres : vv. 1, 3, 4, 6, Kanda; vv. 2, 7, 8, 9, Mattēbhavikridita; v. 5, Mahāsragdharā; v. 10, Salini; vv. 11, 12, Anushțubh; v. 13, Champakamala.]
1.
Svasti
samasta-bhuvan-asraya
Śr-Pri(pri)thvi-vallabha
maharaj-adhirāja
paramēgva(Svara parama-bhattārakam Satyagraya-kuļa-tiļakaṁ Chāļu2 ky-abharaṇam srimast*]-Traiļokyamalla-Āhavamalla-dēvara vije(ja)ya-rajyam=
uttar-ottar-ábhivri(vri)ddhi-pravarddhamanam=Ã-chandr-arkka-täram baram sa3 luttam-ire | tat-pada-padm-opajivi
Samadhigata-pancha-maha-sabdamahamandalesvaram samara-Mahä(he)śvaram san(sau)ryya-kanthiravan raņa
ramga-Bhairava[m] bhfitya-chintämaņi 4 subhata-si(fi)romaņi satya-Radheyam sau(sau)ch-Amjanõyar bhuvan-abhiraman
sähas-oddama svāmi-samnnäham budha-jan-otsäham Chõļa-bala-jaladhi-Badav
ānalam Bhoja5 kāl-inalaṁn=ubhaya-bal-achäryyam Mandara-dhairyyam Srimad-Āhavamalla-dēvara
vagga näm-di-samasta-prasa (sa)sti-sahitam sriman-mahamandalesvaram Jēma
rasam Pottiyu6 r=Elavatti Niţtasimgi Handiyūra modal=āge palavum bādamgalam
kuttum bittiyan=aņugu-jivitadin=āluttav-ire | tat-tandjam | Sr madhiga7 ta-paṁcha-mahi-sa (sa) bda-mahäsämantar Vira-lakshmi-kantam mödini-malla ripu
bri(hri)daya-sellan=ayyana gamdha-váraņam vairi-samhåranam kumara-Nara
Nárasim8 ganām-adi-samasta-prasa (fa)sti-sahitam sriman-mahāsă manta J õyiyarasam
kumāra-vri(vpi)ttiyim Pottiyuran=āļuttam-ire | Samasta-bhuvana-jana-vinuta-pada
payo. 9 ja-Paraměsvara-Hara-Dhar-imganā-prasad-Otpadita-vilola-bhal-ekshana kshamädhar-en
dra-ramndra-si(si)khara-samsthāpita-sakti v yakta-bhuja-nij-anushthit-ashţādas(6)
Åsva(sva)10 mēdha viluļita-sit-åtapatra-traya-virăjamāna mahim-ådy-anēka-sämmnā(mrajya-rājaka
virăjita-pavitra-lashatra Kādamba-kuļa-bhushaņa 11 permmatti-türyya-nirgghoshanam samadhigati-pancha-maha-sabda-mahamandalesva(sva).
ram Banavisi-puravar-ēsva(sva)ram macr*]-kkolvana gandam Malege mårttaņda[m]
1 Prom the ink-impression.
. Apparently some word like prasata is missing hereabouts.
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