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the Creator as his choicest work in order to raise the votaries of the feet of Isa and the Sun to enter into the everlasting seat where they abide.
(V. 12.) The sky is ever bright with masses of smoke of various sacrifices, like a rainbow, which all the Brahmans together make for the satisfaction of the Lord of a Hundred Sacrifices (Indra].
(V. 13.) Mangalarnavadēva, a moon of the Chaļukya race, has become in sooth illustrious as a rod of Käla to the Chola race, a meteor of ruin to the Malava race, an uprooter of the Gurjara race.
(V. 14.) This Mangaļārņava, whose stainless fame is stamped upon the earth, having given land on sarva-namasya tenure (and) settled a thousand Brahmans, protected Pāli.
(V. 15.) The fortunate Mangalarnava, the mayor, received as a gift (marks of -Ed.) the high dignity of governorship, namely the flag, yak-tail fans, discus (?), white parasol, betel-bag, gong, double shell, and the rest.
(Ll. 28-29.) As regards the high dignity of the Thousand Mahājanas, headed by the mayor who has had this fortune :
(V. 16.) The earth extols the Thousand as being men of abounding (good) conduct, seats of incalculable merit, uniquely worshipful to the world, skilled in arte, having fame like autumnal clouds, celestial trees to the companies of cultured and agreeable men, ravishing the powers of haughty foes, bees to the lotus-feet of the blest god Kosavāditya.
(V. 17.) The Thousand, who are birth-sites of supreme generosity, having together drunk with delight the nectar of religion with exceeding reverence for him, moved in spirit, built & dwelling for the blessed god Andhäsura, which was to be as it were a support for the mighty creeping-plant of their own superhuman fame, so that it was like to the celestial mountain.
(Ll. 33-36.) The Thousand Mahājanas headed by the mayor thus described, by unanimous consent, laved the feet of the god Andhāsura and granted for the god's personal enjoyment on nela-vartti eleven sojja of areca-nuts per thousand ; on all other areca-nuts, such as chandavura and bele, twenty-one sojja per thousand; on each load (of betel-leaf), a bundle (consisting of eight-hundred betel-leaves'; on each hend-load, a bundle (consisting of) four-hundred betel. leaves.
(LI. 36-38.) Aļalara Nagadēvayya, Haradara Santayya, Mandeyara Mākaņayye, and Ubbarada Bammayya, these four, having offered worship at the feet of the Hundred of Siveyageri, purchased (of them) and assigned to the god Andhästra as a sarva-namasya holding four mattar below the Kadaku Tank within the waste-land pasuge.
(V. 18.) In Pūli, which is renowned in the world, the whole company of gods is griefstricken if a morsel (of sacrificial food) should enter the flames in fiery glow with crackling sound, without coming to Andhasura.
(LI. 40-41.) On the holy day on which occurred Monday, the full-moon of the bright fortnight of Srāvana in the cyclic year Chitrabhanu, the seventh of the (regnal) years of -hail !-the blest Kalachurya Emperor Tribhuvanamalladēva, together with an eclipse of the moon,
(Ll. 41-44.) Jñanasaktidēva, the Acharya of the establishment of the god Andhågura, having adored with (offering of money the Thousand, headed by the mayor, of the great Agrahåra of Poli, purchased and assigned for the god's baths and oblations seven mattar in the
Namely Iss and the Sun.
* Läbha-gavalige: the word kavalige means ", quantity embraced ; a pack or bundle of betel or plantain. leaves, etc." (Kittel, kt.). • Soe Dyn. Kanar. Distr., p. 474.
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