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INSCRIPTIONS OF HULI.
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of Konalagòri(!). Of this field the bounds are : on the north, the god Andhāgura's field; on the east, the fata of the waste-land of Kattiyagēri; on the south, the field of the Müla-sthāna god; on the west, the fata of the waste-land of Raviyaņi.
(L. 53-54.) The fifty households by common agreement granted oil for burning in the god's lamps.
(L. 54-57.) Likewise Nakimayya-NĀyaka (assigned] a toll on the betel-leaves of Chikkarasa of the Rāhas' Hill, . . . on a large) load, a hundred on a small) load, fifty on a bagful; (on) a maund of husked rice, forty-five gadyāna in gold . . . . . .
(V. 16 : identical with verse 2 of inscription C.)
E.-OF THE REIGN OF VIKRAMADITYA VI: THE 29TH YEAR, ETC.
This is an inscription upon a black stone that was found standing against the east wall of & small empty shrine a little to the south-east of the front (eastern) face of the temple of Madanēśvara pr Andhakėśvara. The stone was 7 ft. 6 in. high, and 3 ft. 05 in. wide. Its top was a rounded panel containing the following sculptures : in the centre, a liriga in a shrine; to the proper right of this, a priest sitting, facing it, in the same shrine ; in the proper right corner, a cow with calf; in the left corner, the bull Nandi; above these, the sun (to left) and moon (to right). Below this is the inscribed area, 4 ft. 8} in. high and 3 ft. broad. The character is Kanarese, a good hand of the last quarter of the twelfth century, with a supplement in a later hand (11. 53-56). The letters are on the average in. high; they are generally well preserved. The type of jh noted on the Siļi inscription F. above, Vol. XV, p. 86, occurs on 11. 22, 27. The cursive v is used in -chakravartti (1. 47).-The language, except for the introductory Sanskrit verse, is Old Kanarese, verging on the medieval dialect. The ? is preserved in negalda, 1. 38, and i duvs, 1. 39, and wrongly written in Belalav=, 1. 5 ; on the other hand, it appears as in pël, 1, 15, pogalgum, 1. 30, ēloneya, 1. 40, el, 1. 43, hala, 11. 37, 42, 50, and as in negarddar, 1. 8, negarddan, 1. 25 (both with the second syllable short), and norppada, 1. 24. Initial p in the prose is retained in pēringe, 1. 34, pasuge, 1. 37, but changed to h in hāļa, 11. 37, 42, 50, hasuge, 11. 43, 45, 50, hana, l. 43, haduvana, 1. 46, heb-batte, 1. 51, haffada, 1. 52. Lexically interesting are : bhānasu, 1. 4, kuttunbitti, 1. 5, ēkari, 1. 13, bali, 1. 14, sojja, 1. 34, chamdāvura, 1, 34, sata, 11. 44, 47, 51, 52, and sauti, I. 46.
The record is a consolidated one, comprising three different grants to the same foundation (11. 1-39, 40-47, and 47-52), with a later supplement (11. 53-56). When the third grant was executed and written out (A.D. 1184), the two earlier grants were copied and prefixed to it; and in A.D. 1224 some one began to write as a supplement the fourth grant, but did not complete it. The first grant begins by referring itself to the reign of Tribhuvanamalla (Vikramaditya VI), and then states that a general and minister, who was also Steward of the Royal Kitchen, by name Anantapālarasa, had a son-in-law, Lakkarasa, a general who administered Belvala and Puligere; and this Lakkarasa, with the authority of Anantapalarasa, commissioned a certain Singarasa to assign one share in the proceeds of fines levied in Pali to the treasury of the god Andhăsura, a form of Siva (11. 2-7). This was accordingly done, under the auspices of the Acbārya Tatpurusha, a disciple of Jñanasakti ; this Jñānasakti was a distinguished divine and scholar, to whom king Bhuvanaikamalla (Sõmēśvara II) paid particular reverence, in connection with which a fine temple of Siva (probably that bearing the name of Andhisura, with which the present series of grants is concerned) was built (11. 7-18). Then comes, apparently as a supplement to this grant, a record of two endowments of Andhdsura. The first (11. 18-36) opens with verses praising the town of Pali and its mayor ür-odeya), a scion of the Chāļukys race named Mangaļarnava, who seems to have won some rerown in the wars against the Ohõļas, Malayas, and Gurjaras, and is stated to have settled 1,000 Brahmans on an estate granted by
