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INSCRIPTIONS OF HULI.
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(V. 6.) Pāli, which is indeed a site of conspicuous charm, appears with the aspect of a beauty-spot npon the county of Belvala, which is radiant like the lotus-face of that fair lady the ocean-girdied earth. This town by its bright appearance laughs to scorn the city of the Gods and Kuběra's city of Aļakā.
(L 17.) In this (town)
(V. 7.) In the series of all grammars and treatises on economic science, in poems, in goodly drama, in panegyric poetry, in the illustrious Upanishads, in transcendental and secular lore, in all arts, they have become superior in glory to the Lord of Speech (Brahman]: say, who are equal to praising the renown of the Thousand ?
(Ll. 20-22.) Hail ! on Sunday, the occasion of the uttarayana-sankrānti, being the 10th of the bright fortnight of Pushya in the cyclic year Tāraņa, the 968th of the centuries elapsed since the time of the Saks king :
(Ll. 22-23.) Lachchiyabbarasi, having adored with (offering of) gold the divinely blest lotus-feet of the Thousand Mahājanas, headed by the mayor, of the great Agrahāra of Pali, who are constant in the six duties of sacrifice by themselves and by others, study, teaching, almsgiving, and acceptance (of charity), skilful for the purpose of maintaining the rank of honour of father and grandfather at the establishment of the Chāļukya Emperor's Brahmapuri, accomplished as wits, poets, reciters, disputants, and rhetoricians, fond of serving guests, visitors, and men of culture, versed in all the Vedas, the Rik, Yajus, Sáma, and Atharvaņa, which have issued from the lotus-mouth of Hiraṇyagarbha-Brahman, and in the Vedangas, the subsidiary sciences, all books of teaching, the eighteen sacred law-books and Purăņas, poems, dramas, and traditional rules of religion; whose bodies are purified by plunging in the baths of the seven soma-samsthass; who are (honoured) with golden pitchers, six white parasols, and yak-tail fans and saluted with the five great musical sounds, gongs, and drums; who are trees of desire to clients, Kalántakas to adversaries, uniform of speech, adamant chambers to refuge-seekers, restorers of the four churches, and recipients of the grace of boons from the god Kēšavaditya,
(LI. 33-37.) and having obtained from them) land and constructed a sanctuary, laved the feet of Balachandra-Bhattārskadēva, of the Punnagavriksha Mola-Gaņa in the YåpaniyaSamgha, and granted for the restoration of broken, burst, and outworn (buildings) six mattar of va suges at Siveyagēri in the western field, to be enjoyed on payment of an asu-vana of three paņas, at the rate of half a gold piece on each mattar.
(LI. 37-40.) When the victorious reign of-hail !-the asylum of the whole world, favourite of Fortune and Earth, great Emperor, supreme Lord, supreme Master, ornament of Satyasraya's race, embellishment of the Chalukyas, the angust Emperor Jagadēkamalladēva, was advancing in a course of successively increasing prosperity, (to endure) as long as moon, san, and stars :
(LI 40-41.) on the occasion of the uttarāyana-sankranti in the Saka year 1067, the cyclic year Krodhana,
(Lines 41-49.) the sheriff Nēmana, having adored with (offering of) gold the divinely blest lotus-feet of the thousand Mahajanas, headed by the mayor, of the great Agrahāra of Pali, who practise the major and minor disciplines, scriptoral study, spiritual concentration, observance of
1 See Manu, i. 88.
A quarter for the residence of Brahmaps in connection with a templo. · These rites are enumerated in Ep. Carn., Vol. VII. i. Sk. 74. • See above, on v. 4 of this inscription. . See Kittel, 8. v. hange, and above, Vol. XIII p. 37.
• The apa-apa is quit-rent for tenancy of land in connect un with amounted to pana per mattar, in all amounting to 8 panai.
religions establishment; here it
