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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
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A.-KOLUR INSCRIPTION OF THE REIGN OF SOMESVARA I: BAKA 987.
This is from a slab found in Kolar: but I can find no record of its site or other details, The inscribed area is 2 ft. 14 in. wide and 4 ft. 101 in. high.-The character is good Kanarese of the period; the letters in the upper lines are about fin, high, the rest about #in. The cursive m (above, Vol. XII, p. 335) appears in ma[th*]gaļa (1. 45).-The language is Old Kanarese prose, except in the two Sanskrit verses on 11. 41-44. The does not appear; its place is taken by 1. Initial p is preserved. The spelling -ichidananth for -fchhēdamuth (1.39) is interesting : cf. Whitney's Sanskrit Grammar, $ 227a, and Wackernagel, Altindische Grammatik, I, p. 154.
The record opens by referring itself to the reign of Traiļokyamalla-dēva (Somödvara I) in 11. 1-4. Under him a certain functionary with the title of Rajagurudēve, of the Kadamba lineage, was governing the twelve towns which were administered for the benefit of the temple of Indrëśvara at Bankapura (11. 4-13); he is described as the guardian of the Konkan' (1. 11), and much is said aboat his piety, valour, learning, and other merits. Next is introduced Kaliyammarasa, of the Jimatav hans lineage and the Khachara race, who was administering the manneya of the Hundred-and-forty of Bisavar (11. 14-23). He was a Jain by religion, the tutelary goddess of his family was Padmåvati, and their banner bore the device of a serpent. He is also termed payiga-dallalam,'a trouble to Duyiga,' apparently some potentate whom he had defeated (1. 121). Then follow the details of the endowment (11, 23-34), by which Rajagarudēva granted some land to the temple of Kalidēvēsvara at Kolor, and Kaliyazamarasa assigned thirty houses to defray the cost of perpetual lamps in it. The writer of the record was Basavayya, and the sculptor Bammoja.
The date is given on 11, 26-27 as : Saka 967, the cyclio year Pärthiva; Paushya-suddha 5, Sunday; the uttarayana-samkrānti. This is irregular. The given tithi corresponded to Monday, 16 December, A.D. 1045 ; it ended at 12 h. 41 m. after mean sunrise on that day, and began 13 h. 1 m. after mean sunrise on the preceding Sunday. The uttardyana-samkrānti occurred 23 h. 55 m. after mean sunrise on Monday, 28 December,-- week after the given
The places mentioned are: Rodda (1. 8), Benkapura (11. 13, 27), the Hundred-andforty of Basavür (1. 22), Kolur (1. 28), Karage (1. 30), Alskere (1. 30), the Varade river (1. 31), and the tirthas (11. 36, 37, 39). On Rodda see above, Vol. VIII, p. 135n. Bankāpurs is the modern Bankåpir (see above, Vol. XIII, p. 168), On Båsavor and Kolfir see above. Koļür was one of twelve towns administered for the benefit of the temple of Indrośvara at Bankäpura. Karage may possibly be the modern town of Karajgi, which gives its name to the taluka, and lies in lat. 14° 52' and long. 75° 30'. The Varade river must be the stream called "Verda" on the Bombay Survey map : Kolar lies on its southern bank, and it flows thence Westwards to the north of Devageri and then tarns southwards. There is & village named - Vardi" (80 the Bombay Survey) on its bank in lat. 14° 47' and long. 75° 20',
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[The metres are as follows : verse 1, Salini; verse 2, Anushtubh.] 1 Svasti samasta-bhavan-áśraya Sri-Pri(Pri)thvi-vallabha mahārājādhiraja(ja) para! 2 mēsva(bva)ra parama-bhattarakam Saty&sraya-ku!a-tilakam Chaluky-abharanam
1 I bave again to acknowledge my obligation to the late Mr. R. Sewell, who with his waal kindnes 'checked wy calenlations for the dates in this series.
. From the ink-impression.
The engraver began this word with the syllable dki, and then corrected it to pa.
