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No, 28.)SRIRANGAM PLATES OF MALLIKARJUNA : SAKA-SAMVAT 1384. 353
The articles required for each mahopaharaare :-5 khorts of rice, 1 dronaka bf green gram, 1 adhaku bf ghee, along with fruits and vegetables
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h o's The above are to be measured by māna and adhaka as fixed by Manu.
59. The water-shed kept in front of the temple should always be full of water, and every day sixty Vaish avas should be fed in the Rämänuja-küţa.
V. 38. The document was engraved by Virago son of Muddan-achārya. He received one share in the village. Vv. 39-43. Ugnal admonitory and imprecatorya veriges.si
! L. 84. The signature, St Virapaksha, of the king, written in Telugu-Kannada alphabet.
No. 29. -TWO BANAWASI INSCRIPTIONS OF THE KADAMBA KIRTTIVARMA
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Banavāsi, formerly a seat of splendid royalty, and now a decayed village, lies in the Sirsi taluka of North Kanara District, in lat, 14. 32 and long, 750 41'. It still contains a temple of Madhukēgvara, the ancient tutelary deity of the Kādamba princes who once bore rule there, and in that building were found the two records which are here presented, from inkimpressions which were prepared for the late Dr. Fleet, and are now in the British Museum.
A.-OF THE REIGN OF SOMESVARA I: SAKA 990.
I This fragment is contained on & slab found in the Madhukėśvara temple. It has been briefly described by Dr. Fleet in Ind. Ant., Vol. IV, p. 206, No. 3, and translated in Mysor. Inscr., p. 320, No. 170 (cf. above, Vol. VII, App., No. 173). A transcript is given in the Elliot Collection (Royal Asiatic Society's copy, Vol. I, fol. 106 6.). At the head of the stone are sculptures, viz., in the centre & bitga ; to the proper right, a cow and calf ; 'over these, the sun; to the proper left of the linga, a lion, over the latter, the toon. The inscribed area below this is abont 2 ft. 1 in, wide and 4 ft. high; but a great part of it on the lower deft side has been lost.The character is Kanarese of the period; the script is somewhat angular and slanting, with letters between in and in the language is old snarere, with the usual concluding formule in Sanskrit.
The record opens by referring itself to the reign of Traiļokyamalla-dēva, i.e. Sõmēsvara I (11., 1-3), and then states that at the time the Banavāsi Twelve-thousand was under the government of the Kadamba Mahåmandalosvara Kirttivarma dēva, whose name is preluded by a long series of titles, among them being those of lord of Bapavis best of cities Warrior for his elder brother," and "lion for Taila" (11. 3-16). This last title probably refers to Kirttivarman's exploite in the service of his father Taila, of whom we shall hear more in inscription B. Then comes the date 11..1617), followed by fragments of twelve more linea of which it is impossible to make out much consecutive sense, except that they record a grant to the kalla daunlada davar op "god of the Stone --Temple." They conclude with the riguai formule for the maintenance of the foundation, and the mention of a grant to the stonecutter Malloja.
The thening of the necond part of the coun pound is not
** ! The test actually won the word pantola-Brioudat. intelligible.
Soo Dynast. Kanar. Distr., p. 5584
