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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
L.-OF THE REIGN OF BIJJALA: SAKA 1084.
This inscription is engraved on a black stone which was found on the road outside the house known as the Virakta-matha, and was placed by Dr. Fleet for security in the sabha-mandapa of the Panchalinga temple. The height of the stone is 5 ft. 2 in. and the width 1 ft. 9 in. The rounded top bears sculptures, viz. in the centre a standing Vishnu, facing full front; to his proper right, a kneeling Garuda facing full front; to the left of Vishnu, a cow with calf; over them, the sun (to left) and moon (to right). Under this is an inscribed area, 3 ft. 5 in. high and 1 ft. 8 in. wide. The character is fairly good Kanarese of the period, well preserved. The average height of the letters is about in. The language is Old Kanarese, verging on the medieval dialect in the prose, with two opening stanzas and a final verse in Sanskrit. The upadhmaniya appears in Vishnuh-p°, 1. 2. The l is not preserved: we find nnegarda, 1. 11, and on the other hand elgeyol, 1. 25, hala, 1. 39, and bilgum, 1. 47. The treatment of initial p fluctuates: we have it changed in the prose to h in hala hasugey, 1. 39, hittilalu 1. 43, harada-, 1. 43, hannondam, 1. 44, while in other cases it is preserved. On the genitive shța-sishțara (1. 19; the same in inscr. M., 1. 25) see my note in Journ. R. Asiat. Soc., 1918, p. 105.
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The record refers itself in 11. 4-6 to the reign of the Kalachurya king Tribhuvanamalladēva (Bijjala), and then proceeds to sing in verse the praises of Puli, the Thousand Mahajanas thereof, and the Hundred of Siveyageri forming part of them (11. 6-12); and it celebrates the excellences of a family in the latter parish, giving the following pedigree (11. 12-33) :— Malapayya, of Bharadvāja-gōtra.
Kalimayya, m. Rēviyakka
I
Dasiraja, m. Olajale and Bhagale
Mahādēva
Malayya
We then learn that on the given date Dasiraja restored the decayed temple of Kesava (Vishnu) of Nagarakhandi, reconsecrated it, and bought from the Thousand of Pali some land which he assigned for its maintenance (11. 33 ff.).
The date of this record is given on 11. 33-34 as: Saka 1084 (expired), the cyclic year Chitrabhanu; Pushya bahula 2, Somavara (Monday); the uttaṛāyaṇa-samkrānti. This is nearly but not quite regular The given tithi corresponded to Tuesday, 25 December, A.D. 1182; it began about 13 h. 18 m. after mean sunrise on the preceding Monday, and ended about 12. h. 58 m. after mean sunrise on the Tuesday, with which it was properly connected. The uttarayana-sankranti took place about 6 h. 18 m. after mean sunrise on the Tuesday, while the tithi bahula 2 was still current.
The places mentioned are, besides Páli, Kalamjana (i.e. Kalañjara, on which see Dyn. Kan. Distr., p. 469), 1. 4, the Koṭṭaja-vävi, 1. 7 (apparently a pond in Pali), Siv eyageri, 1. 12, Nagarakhandi, J. 35, Kokkuligëri, 1. 39, and Kattiyagēri, 1. 40. On the Nagarakhaṇḍa Seventy of the Banavisi province see I. A., Vol. XIX, p. 144, and above, Vol. V, p. 213 ff.
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[The metres are as follows: Vv. 1, 2, 17, Anushtubh; v. 3, Sardalavikridita; vv. 1, 10, 11, 14-16, Mattebhavikridita; vv. 5-9, 12, Kanda; v. 13, Utpalamala 1
1 [Ja]yaty-avishkritam Vishpor-Väräham kshobhit-årnna (rppa)vam [*] dakship.
om(n)nata-damshtr-agra-viśranta-bhu
1 From the ink-impression.
