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No. 22.]
pa, or "Siddhappa of the Tank," stands on the eastern side of the tank marked in Survey No. 694, towards the north-east of the village. It is of sandstone, of the Dravidian order, containing a shrine with linga, walled mantapa, and porch (now in ruins). The Virakta. matha is (or was) a building in the north-eastern part of the village, which served for lodging ascetics.
INSCRIPTIONS OF HULI.
The Elliot Collection (Royal Asiatic Society's copy) contains transcripts of nine of these inscriptions: D. is given in vol. 1, fol. 233a, E. ib., fol. 284b, F. ib., fol. 307a, G. ib., fol. 306b H. ib., fol. 412a, I. in vol. 2, fol. 374b, J. ib., fol. 374b, K. ib., fol. 375a, and M. ib., fol. 1la. As nsual, these transcripts leave much to be desired.
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A. OF THE REIGN OF TAILA II: SAKA 907.
The following inscription is incised upon a black stone which was found to the north of the Bhimesvara or Andhakesvara temple, on the west bank of the Akkatangera-bhavi, in Survey No. 693. The slab was set in a base, and was 5 ft. 2 in. in height and 2 ft. 1 in. broad. It was a vira-gal, or hero's monument, and in accordance with the usual practice was divided into horizontal compartments, four containing sculptures and three writing. Of the sculptures I have been unable to obtain particulars. The first compartment of the writing (about 5" high) contains 11. 1-4, the second (about 3 high) 11. 5-9, the third (about 21" high) 11. 10-11 The inscription is fairly well preserved, and is in good Kanarese script, with letters between " and" in height. The special form of y noted above, Vol. XII, p. 336, seems to occur in bhandiy, 1. 3.-The language is Old Kanarese: 11. 1-4 are in prose, and then come three verses. The forms are those of a transitional period: thus we find the short accusative and. genitive, the locative in -o (11. 5-8, 10), and the verbal forms irdan (1. 5), ildan (1. 7), sandar (1.4), beside the archaic verbal forms antoran (1. 5) and küḍidon (1. 8). The word eltus apparently the original of the later ettu, seems to occur in bhandiy-eltam, 1. 3. The i not preserved, except in negaida (11. 8-9).
The record is of the usual type of vira-gal. It announces that on a certain date Dadda payya, a pergade or official in the service of Sobhanayya, made a raid upon Pali, whereupon Kendara Kēta, Ereviṭṭa, and Tambada Kēta attacked his party, slew the leader, his horse, and three of his men, and died the death of heroes. Verses 1-2 (11. 5-9) eulogise Kendara Kêta; the mutilated and obscure verse 3 mentions a certain Kendara Marasimga as dying heroically
in battle.
The date of this record is :. Saka 907 expired, the cyclic year Parthiva; the full moon of Chaitra; Budhavara, or Wednesday (11. 1-2). These details are slightly irregular: the tithi Chaitra sukla 15 of the given year corresponded to Monday, 9 March, A.D. 985, on which day it ended about 16 h. 47 m. after mean sunrise, and it cannot have been connected with the Wednesday.1
The only place mentioned is Pali, i.e. Huli (1. 2).
TEXT.2
[The metres are: verse 1, Mattēbha-vikridita; verse 2, Kanda. The fragmentary verse 3 may possibly be a Dvipada.]
1
2 Chaitrada punname
Pūliya po
Svasti [*] Sa(1)ka-nripa-kāļ-ātīta-samvatsaramga3 907neya Partthivasamvatsarada
Sobhanayyana perggade Daddapayyam
Budhavaradandu
1 I am indebted to Mr. R. Sewell for the verification of my calculations of this and the other dates in the present paper.
From the ink-impression.
Abbreviated for samvatsara-satamgrlu.
T 2
