Epigraphia Indica Vol 16

Author(s): F W Thomas, H Krishna Sastri
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India

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which serves to distinguish it from the many other towns and villages of the same name. It is situate in lat. 15° 19' und long. 75° 51', three miles NE. from Dambal. Our inscription, of which a transcript is given in Vol. I, fol. 20% of the Elliot Collection (R. As. Soc. copy), was foond on & slab at the temple of Isvara ; I edit it from an ink-impression prepared for the late Dr. Fleet, which is now in the British Museum. The stone is rectangular, and in its apper compartment has some sculptures, viz. in the centre a liviga on a stand, to the proper right a squatting figure facing full front, and to the left a cow with suckling calf facing the lisga. Underneath this is the inscribed area, about 4 ft. 4 in, in height and 1 ft. 84 in. in width. - The character is Kanarese, a good bold well-rounded type, rather archaic in style. The th on 1. 34, as sometimes in other records, is indistinguishable from . The height of the letters in II. 1-4 is about in., and elsewhere from in. to in.-The language, except in the three formal Sanskrit verses at the end (11. 42-46), is Old Kanarese. The ? is preserved. Nolanbadhirajana (1. 3 ; but Nolambadhirajam and Nola mbavidi, 1. 11), Kengali (1. 12), alipillad-atam (1. 20), ild- (1. 30), alidang- and alida (1. 41). The words marmmal (1.1), ghatiga (1. 19), and karbi-vadda (11. 28, 29) are of lexical interest.
The record opens with a verse (11. 1-4) in praise of Iriva-Nolanabidhiraja, announcing that he was married to a lady who was a granddaughter of Taila (Abavamalla Nurmadi. Taila II), a daughter of Satyasraya (Akalankacharita Irivabedanga-Satyásraya), and tange (literally, "younger sister," bat really "paternal cousin ") to Vikramaditya [V Tribhuvanamalla]. On these and other facts connected with the insoription see Dyn. Kanar. Distr., Pp. 332, 434, and 558.1 It then refors itself to the reign of Tribhuvanamalla (Vikramaditya V), and introduces as his feudatory the above-mentioned Iriva-Nolambadhiraja, a scion of tho Pallava family, bearing among other titles that of lord of Kamohi best of cities," who at the time was ruling over the Nolambavādi Thirty-two Thousand, the Kemgali Five-hundred, the Ballakunde Three-hundred, the Kukkanür Thirty, and five towns in the Māsiyavādi nadu (11. 5-14). The next section (11. 14-24) introdaces with all his titlos a high officer of the latter, the Brahmãt general Venneya-Bhatta, son of Dinda-Pandita ; and then, after the date (11. 24-26), we learn that this person, having received certain lands from the representatives of Alär, presented them as an endowment to Amerācharya, of the Gahoya Matha in Sirivura, for the benefit of his monastery (11. 26-38). The writer of the edict was Maruļoja (I. 46).
The date is given on 11. 24-26 as: Saka 933 lapsed, the cyclic year Sådhårana ; the full-moon day of Vaisakha; a Sanday. This is slightly irregular. Sidhårana was Saka 993 current; and the given tithi corresponded to Monday, 1 May, A.D. 1010, when it ended 2 h. 3 m. after mean suprise (for Ujjain).
The places mentioned are Kichi, i.e. Conjeeraram (1. 10), the Nolambavādi Thirty-two Thousand, in the region of Bellary (1. 11), the Kengali Five-hundred (1.12), the Ballakunde Three-hundred (1. 12), the Kukkanür Thirty (1. 12), the Māsiyavadi nadu (1. 13), the Male or Highlands of the Western Ghauts (1. 20), the Sapta-grame, or “ seven towns" (1.21), MÄ?ad-Ālür (II. 26, 30: vide supra), Sirivura (11. 27, 34), and Ittage (1. 27). On Ballakunde see above, Vol. XIV, p. 267; on Ittage, above, Vol. XIII, p. 36 ; on Kukkanir, ibid., p. 40; on Māsiyavādi, Dyn. Kanar. Distr., p. 465, and above, Vol. XV, p. 78. Sirivara is now Sirör, in lat. 15° 21' and long. 75° 49', about 3 miles NNE. from Ålür.
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TEXT. [Metres : v. 1, Mattēbhavikridita ; vv. 2-4, Anushţubh.] 1 Mann-märgg-igrani chakravartti-tiļakam Tailange marmma! kutyaáre
1 Much information as to the earlier Nolambas will be found above, Vol. X, pp. 54 ff. * I have to thank Mr. R. Sewell for his kindness in verify ng my calculations From the ink-impression.