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supreme Lord, a manifest Chanakya, unfailing in speech, Trailokyamalla Nolamba-Pallava Permidi Jayasingha-dēva, was reigning with enjoyment of pleasant conversations over the two (provinces, together forming) a Six-bundred, of the Beļvals Three-hundred and the Puligere Three-hundred :
(Lines 11-14.) While-haill-the Mahasāmanta who has obtained the five great musical sounds, who has all titles of honour such as "Rēvaatal of the Kali Age, scion of the Manalegara lineage, renowned for the device of a lion, lord of Puligere best of cities, a Mahesvara of battles, sun in the fray, lion of nobles," Jayakēsiyarasa, was holding the office of County Gavupda :
(Lines 14-21.) On Sunday, the end of the bright fortnight of Ashadha in the cyclio year Pingala, the 999th (year) of the centuries elapsed since the Saka king's time, during a conjunction, at the pavitr-ārāhana, all the taxation-officers, the Controllers of Taxes Barmanna and Aychimayya (and) the talabözi Dāsiyanna, having laved the feet of Tsanasingi Jiyar, who practises meditation, spiritual concentration, observance of silence, prayer, and absorption, with pouring of water (assigned to the god Koyläļośvara two loads of ekkavattige betel-leaf, two loads of pale betel-leaf, two loads of kari betel-leaf-altogether six loads.
(Lines 21-26.) The Households assigned for every year the amount of three pana (and) twelve malave of cotton. The Koylāļis assigned their temple-fee: for a trained damsel five pana, for a novice-Koyläļi five pans, as temple-fee, (and) one visa on every load of betel-leaf carried. The florist Barmayya assigaed one puttavala of decorations .. .. . twelve personsthe sixty Households' pious gift.
(Lines 26-30: a prose formula of the usual type.) (Verses 2-3: two commoa Sanskrit verses.) (Lines 33-34.) To the drummer Bi ..ga they assigned a dasavanda.
No. 25.-HULGUR INSCRIPTION OF THE REIGNS OF JAYAŠIMHA II (SAKA 960)
AND THE YADAVA KANHARA.
BY LIONEL D. BARNETT,
The site of Hulgir has been discussed by me above, p. 329, in treating of the inscription of Saka 999. From the second part of the present record, 1. 32, we learn further that it was a Barañju-vattanaor market-town of the Banatljus or Vira-Vaļañjiyas, an important corporation of traders whose centre was at Aiyāvole (the modern Aihole), the seat of their Five-hundred Svāmis, and whose organisation seems to have spread over the greater part of Southern India. They claimed to have originally come from Ahichchhatra, and some of their records are couched in a tone of regal pomposity. The present inscription was found at the temple of Kalamēšvara in Hulgăr, and an ink-impression, from which the text is now edited, was prepared for the late Dr. Fleet and bequeathed by him with others to the British
1 See above, Vol. XIII, p. 313 n.
Soe Ind. Ant., Vol. 38, p. 52. • The name Koylala seems to be derived from the Tamil Köyil-ala," ruling in the temple "; and the Koylāļis mentioned in the next paragraph must be the temple-women.
• See Ind. Ant., Vol. 30, PP. 107, 367; Ep. Carn. X. 1 (Kolar), Mb. 172 f., 259, CB. 9, Bg. 71, Ct. 1, 14; Lisamisoár Glossary, p. 92.
• Definitions of the term pattana are given in the Kamikāgama xx. 8 f. and Yugadi-dafana v. 50; see also my translation of the Antagada-dasão, p. 45.
On these see Mysore Inser., PP. 73, 120, 128; Epigr. Carn., VII, 1., Sk. 94, 118-19; Madras Epigr. Report, 1905-06, pp. 11, 17, 1912-13, pp. 99-102, 1914-16, p. 102; above, Vol. XIII, pp. 21, 26.
