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B.-LAKSHMESHWAR INSCRIPTION OF THE REIGN OF VIKRAMADITYA VI:
A.D. 1081. On the site of Lakshměshwar (the ancient Paligere, Purigere, or Purikara) I may refer to what I have written above, Vol. XIV, p. 188. The inscription is on a slab which was in the local Kacheri when the ink-impression was made ; whence it originally came I do not know. The stone has a rounded pediment with some sculptures, namely a squatting Jina in the centre, with a cow and sucking calf on the proper left, surmounted by the sun (to right) and moon (to left); a figure or figures has apparently been effaced on the proper right. The inscribed area below this is about 3 ft. 2 in. broad and 3 ft. 6 in. high. The character is a fairly regular Kanarese type of the period, slightly angular and sloping. The letters vary from about in to
in, in height, and in places are somewhat worn. The cursive v occurs in avar., 1. 30.-The language is Old Kanarese, the only Sanskrit is verse 1 and a short quotation in verse 7. The archaic ? is preserved in pogaltegan, 1. 9, negaltegan, 1. 9, iļduva, 1. 15, negaļdara, 1. 16, ild-, 11. 18, 24, negalda, 1. 43, negaldan, 1. 44; it appears as r in kirttu, 1.3, negartte, 1. 46, and as I in Nolamba, 11. 8 ff., 23, pogaļal, 11. 17, 26, negaldar, 1, 36, pēļvade, 1. 39, pogaļalk-, 1. 42; and it is falsely substituted for r in pelchutt-ire, 1. 18. It will be noted that in negaldara, 1. 16, negalda, 1. 43, and negaldan, 1. 44, the second syllable is short metrically, while in negartte, 1. 46, it is scanned as long (cf. above, Vol. XIII, p. 327); hence it seems likely that negaldar, 1. 36, where it is also short, is a scribe's error for negaldar. Lexically interesting are arasura, 1. 14 (apparently meaning asura : cf. avakripe, avaguna, etc.), uddani, 1. 18 (cf. above, Vol. XIII, p. 327), bhuvana-bunbhuka, 1. 19 (ib. pp. 298, 327), prabda, 1. 26, pabb[e®], 1. 26, arttiga in the sense of " lover," l. 38, and goja with the meaning of " moon," 1. 39 (cf. abja).
The record, opening with the stock stanza Srimat-parama-gambhirao (1.1), refers itself in prose and verse to the reign of Tribhuvanamalla, or Vikramaditya [VI] (11. 2-5), and then introduces his younger brother Jayasimha III, the Yavaraja or Heir-apparent, to whom, besides many complimentary titles, it gives the full set of names found in some other records, Traiļökyamalla Vira-Noļamba Pallava-Permānadi Jayasimha-dova (1). 5-8). After two verses of florid compliments to him (Ul. 8-10) and a statement in prose that he was at the time governing the “Two Three-hundreds " (namely Belvola and Puligere), the Banavāse Twelve-thousand, the Santaļige Thousand, and the Kandur Thousand (11. 10-11), it brings in one of his subordinate barons, the Mahasāmantadhipati Eremayya (also called below Erakapa and Erega), a high minister, steward of the royal household, and general (11. 11-13), dwelling in verse upon his virtues and informing us that at the time he was administering the Puligere Three-hundred (11. 13-19). Six verses follow (11. 19-26), which expatiate on the equally surprising merits of Esemayya's younger brother Döņa, who also held high office in the government; and then comes a series of seven stanzas (II. 26-34) announcing that on & given date Dona assigned a grant for the Jain colt in Purikara (the modern Lakshměsh war) to the trusteeship of Narēndrasēna (II), of the Sõna Gana in the Müla Sangha, the senior disciple of Nayasēna Sūri, who in his turn was the senior disciple of Narëndrasena [1]. We have already made the acquaintance of Narēndrasēna I and Nayasēna in the preceding record; the present record, which quotes stanzas 8-9 of A., now carries the succession one generatioa further on. Our author next brings on the scene in vv. 23-34 (11. 34-46) a distinguished family of pious Jains, namely Dinakara (11. 34-36), bis sons Rajimayya (or Raja) and Dudams (11. 36-42), Dadama's wife Echikabbe and their daughter Hammikabbe (11. 4243), Hammikabbe's husband Arasimayya or Arasayya (11. 43-44), their son the physician Kannapa or Kanna (11. 44-45), and Kannapa's sons Indapa, Távara, Raji, Kalidēva, Adinātha, Sānti, and Pārsva (11. 45-46). Here the record breaks off ; apparently it was
Seo Dynast, Kanar. Distr., pp. 453 .
