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INSCRIPTIONS OF HULI.
(V. 2.) Saying "I cannot leave my messmate, my associate, my comrade on the field of battle," Malliga perished together with Bōsiga by reason of the high degree of his nobility.
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H. OF THE REIGN OF VIKRAMADITYA VI.
This is a fragment of a Jain record. It is cut on the upper part of a back stone which was found lying in the courtyard of the Panchalinga temple, and was placed by Dr. Fleet for security in the sabha-mandapa of the sanctuary. The lower part of the slab was lost. The remainder was 2 ft. 7 in. high and 2 ft. 8 in. broad. The topmost compartment, which was rounded, contained sculptures, viz. in the centre a squatting Jina (Parsvanatha ?) facing full front, with a canopy of inflated cobras' hoods over his head, in a shrine, and having below him a pedestal with a floral device and on each side of it a lion; to his proper right a coy and calf; to his left a scimitar; above him, to the left, the sun and moon. The inscribed area beneath this is 1 ft. 4 in. high and 2 ft. 7 in. broad.-The character is good Kanarese, with letters of about in. high.-The language is Sanskrit (verses 1-4 and 6) and Old Kanarese (verses 5, 7-17 and prose). As regards the latter, we may note that is not found; it appears as ? (pogalvinam 1. 4, podalda, 1. 10, pogalut, 1. 20) and r (norppadame, 1. 9, norppade, 11. 10, 11, negardda, 1. 18). The words jagadalam, 1. 17, limkad-amka, 1. 19 (see above, on inscr. B., 1. 14), and kal-vesam 1. 21 may be noticed.
The record, after the usual Jain prelude, extols in poetry the Ganadhara Sudharman, Bahubalin, the famous Jain divine of the Kaṇḍuru-Gana of the Yapaniya-Sangha, Subhachandra and Maunidēva, of the same Gana, and Maghanandin (ll. 1-5). Then it refers itself in prose to the reign of Tribhuvanamalladēva (Vikramaditya VI), whom it lauds in verse (11. 6-9), thence proceeding to extol in verse Kuntala, possibly Belvala, and Pali with its Thousand Mahajanas (11: 9-15). It next gives the titles of an otherwise unknown raja named Piṭṭa, who styled himself "Lord of Kōlala, best of cities" (11. 15-17), and adds in verse that he had four sons, Perma, Bijja or Bijjala, Kirtti, and Gorms, and a daughter, Mailaladevi; Bijjala slew certain kings, and had some relations (a lacuna prevents us from knowing what they were) with king Jayasimha of the Gurjarashtra, possibly the Paramara Jayasimha of Malwa, who flourished about 1055 A.D. (11. 19-20). A mutilated verse speaks of Revakanirmaḍi as sister of king Kanhara, comparing to her Siriyadevi as sister of somebody else (1. 20). We then learn that Bijjala built a Jain sanctuary, which possibly may be the Pañchalinga, and apparently that he or somebody else granted to it a place named Pergummi(?). The rest is lost.
The reference to Rēvakanirmaḍi and. Kanhara is interesting. Kanhara is the Rashtrakūta Krishna III, and Revakanirmaḍi was his elder sister; she married the Ganga Satyavakya Batuga II, who succeeded between 933 and 940 A.D. This fact, and the titles " Gängeya of the Gangas" and "lord of Kolalapura," indicate that Pitta was a scion of the Ganga family.
The places mentioned, besides Puli, are Kuntala (1. 9), Kōlalapura, i.e. Kolhapur3 (1. 16), the Gürjarashtra, i.e. Gujarat (1. 19), Belvala (1. 22), Pergummi (ib.), and Manikya-tirttha (1.24).
1 Bahubalin is well known. Maghanaudin and Subbachandra may conceivably be the same as the divines so named who are mentioned in Inser. Sravana Belgola, Nos. 40-1, 43, 45-9, 59, 64-5, 144, and I. 4., Vol. XIV p. 22. A Mannada Bhaṭṭāra is mentioned in Inser. Śrav. Belgola, No. 6.
2 Ep. Ind., Vol. VI, p. 71; cf. ib., Vol. IV, p. 352, and Dyn. Kanar. Distr., p. 304. The Gawarwad inscrip. tion previously published by me speaks of Bütuga as Revakanirmmaḍiya vallabham (1. 15); so does the Annigeri record which is almost identical.
[Kolalapura is only an epigraphic variant of Kuvalalapura which has been identified with Kölär, the chief town of the Kolar district in the east of Mysore. See Bomb. Gas. Vol. I.-Part II, pp. 297-8.-Ed.]
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