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(LI. 25-32.) Having adored the divinely blest feet of the Thousand Mahajanas, headed by the mayor, of the great Agrahara of Pali, who are constant in the six duties of sacrifice by themselves and by others, study, teaching, alms-giving, and acceptance of charity), masters of the establishment of the Chaļukya Emperor's Brahmapuri,l versed in the lore of the Four Vēdas that issued from Hiranyagarbha's mouth, the Upanishads, sacred law, Puranas, poetry, and various dramas, who are chakora-birds to the moonlight arising from the autumnal moon of their church, who are decorated with golden pitchers, six white parasols, yak-tail fans, the five great musical sounds, gongs, drums, and other emblems of royalty, whose bodies are puri. fied by plunging in the baths of the seven sôma-samsthas, who have glory and renown brilliant as the radiance of Hara's smile, who are worshippers of the god Andhäsura's feet, protectors of refuge-seekers, receiving the grace of boons from the god Kosavāditya,
(Ll. 32-35.) In their presence, Ajjavara Nākimayya, having adored with (offering of) gold the feet of the Hundred of Raviyanagēri, purchased three mattar in the upper kandike on the north of the waste-land hasuget of Raviyaņageri at the Ghost's End for the expenses of) the oblations of the temple of) the god Harihara constructed by himself, the Chastra-pavitra, the restoration of broken, burst, and outworn (masonry), and the mîintenance of a priest.
(LI. 35-37.) Of this field the western bound is the field of the god Kēšava; on the north, the high-road; on the east, the Ghost's Copse ; on the south, the lands of the parish. For these three mattar the asu-vana? is one pana, two visa, two kani.
(Ll. 37-38.) Likewise the same Näkimayys, having adored with offering of money the blest feet of the Hundred of Kaļasavalligëri, purchased (of them) one mattar as a sarva-nama sya holding below the Gildsmen's Tank in the gravel-land of the garden.
(LI. 38-40.) Likowise the same Nākimayya, having adored with (offering of) gold the blest feet of the Hundred of Kalasavalligöri, purchased a karuva-field of eleven mattar; the asu-vang paid for this field is two häga on each mattar.
(V. 15.) The Hundred who are lords of Ghaisāsagēri, brilliant of splendour, great, have given abundant land for the approved worship of the gods Kēšava and Mahēša.
(Ll. 41-43.) So Ajjavara Nikimayya, having adored the same Hundred's blest feet with (offering of) gold, purchased eleven mattar . . . ; the asu-vaņa paid for this field is two haga on each mattar.
(LI. 43-49.) When he had built two karuva-houses in each of these two parishes, (altogether) four houses, the arrangement under which Nākimayya made his grants of houses and land in the Brahmapurt of the god was as follows For Kēseva-Bhatta, houses on the west and east, so as to keep up a professor's stipend; for him a field of five mattar ; the asu-vana paid by him to the god is to be two pana and two haga. To the east thereof, a house for NarasimhaSõmayāji ; for him a field of two mattar, on which the anti-vana is to be one pana. To the east thereof, a house for Narasimha-Ghainga ; for him a field of two mattar, on which the art-vana is to be one pana. To the east thereof, a house for Kõneya-Malla(?)-Kramita ; for him a field of three mattar ;, the aru-vana paid by him is to be one pana and two haga.
(LI, 49-53.) Likewise Ajjavara Näkiyaņņa, having adored with offering of money the divinely blest lotus-feet of the Thousand Mahājanas, headed by the mayor, purchased as a sarvanamasya holding two mattar and four-hundred and fifty kamma in the waste-land hasugo
Cf. sbove, on inser. B. A list of these is given in Ep. Carn., Vol. VII. i. Sk. 74. *Cf. Mēg dita I. 58. • See Kittel, .. v. hasige, and above. Vol. XIII, p. 37. . Apparently the lands of Rariyanageri. . Namely Kaindavalligēri and Ghaifangeri.
Bee I. 4., VOL. XXXVII, p. 52. * See above, on inscr. R.
