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INSCRIPTIONS OF HULI.
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bowing celestials, who is a lintel of high-spirit, a majestic Kirttiköya in the destruction of valiant foes, a Gangēyal of the Gangas, a majestic Lord of Lanka in shattering the armies of unsteady foemen, the Lord of Koļāļa, best of cities :
(V. 13.) A jagadala of governors, a Death-god to adversaries, a Tree of Desire to the needy, a way of salvation to warriors, a warrior against the wanton, a Bhairava of counterarrows, is king Pitta.
(L. 17.) Moreover,
(V. 14.) . . . there were born with distinction king Perma, king Bijja, king Kirtti, the wrestler Gorma, and Maiļaladēvi, thus forming a group in beauty ...
(V. 15.) As he slew hostile kings of the linkad=amka ...... the monarch Jayasinhadēva of the Gurjara kingdom in his own royal fortune . .. [the world] praises king Bijjala.
(L. 20.) Moreover,
(V. 16.) As Rēvakanirmade was the sister of king Kanhara, so the world-renowned Siriyādēvi ......
(V. 17.) Saying: "Truly a mother-house......", king Bijjala, having with joy constructed (images of) the twenty-four Tirthas, prepared a building of stone ... granted the beautiful Pergummi in Beļvala.
1.-ON NAGARASI'S COLUMN. This is an inscription on the eastern face of the south-western column of the four centrul columns in the outer mandapa of the Panchalinga temple. The face of the column is 94 in. high and 1 ft. 5} in, wide; the whole of it is covered by the writing, which runs over the margin to about an inch round it. There are no sculptures. The character is good Kanarene with letters of about in, high. The language is Old Kanarese, mostly verse.
The purport of the inscription is to record the construction of the column by the Saiva divine Nagarasi, disciple of Jñanasakti-probably the same Jñanasakti who was introduoed in inscription E. above, and to land their merits.
TEXT.
The metres are: V. 1, Mattābhavileridita ; v. 2, Kanda.]
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Tanag=1 Dakshipa-Váraņāti-paru-Pali(11)-panrad-Am.
2 dhåsuram janatä-bhäsuran-Anat-äsara-narom3 dr-årādhyan-Erädhyan=olpina Kalamukha4 darppaņam ni(ni)ja-guru Sri-Jinalaktisan-e5 nd-ene vidya-nidhi Nagar diyan-ad-inn var6 ppipam bannipar | [1] Yele-veļdimgala karti7 ya balagaman=o!a-komda ni(ni)ja-ya8 80-ruchiyim bht-valayakk-anuraktateyam 9 taledam sri-Nagarasiy=enag=idu chitram [ 10. garasidēvaru mädisidar-I kam bamam |
Karna or Bhishme. [Rather the latter for Karpa was not a Gangöy-Bd.) See above, on inscr. B., 1. 14.
The Tirthathkarte or Jinne,
From the ink imprension,
