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MAMDAPUR INSCRIPTION OF KANHARA: SAKA 1172.
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(V. 26.) A lion to the elephants disputants, orators, and poets, a moon to the ocean of Saiva doctrine, making the face of all the regions of space to bud with his glory, the doctor Vimalasambhu rejoices.
(V. 27.) The beauty of Vimalasiva's goodly utterances, naturally adorned by the graces of literary art, enters the lotus of the hearts of men of taste and generates horripilation on their bodies.
(Ll. 43-45.) Hail! "the supreme master accomplished in major and minor disciplines, sitting-postures, exercises of the breath, retraction (of the senses), meditation, and absorption,the pilot over the ocean of the lore of all scriptures of Saiva teachers, the emperor of dispu tants, orators, and poets,-he whose lotus-feet are exceedingly gay with the sport of the tips of the coronets of a crowd of emperors headed by the Malava king, the great doctor who by the high degree of his most potent austerities annuls the multitude of suppliants' sins,-the noble sage Vimalasiva is without peer on the whole earth in the magnificence of his austerities and learning":-being thus convinced :
(V. 28.) Falling devoutly at his feet, the General Chamunda gave to this blest Vimalasiva with bestowal of water this most excellent establishment, which should be free of exactions and honoured by all kings.
(Ll. 47-51.) Hail on the holy day of the uttarayana-samkramana, being Monday, the 8th (lunar day) of the dark fortnight of Pushya in the cyclic year Visvavasu, the 1187th (year) of the Saka era, whereas Adi-Setti's father the high minister Malli-Seṭṭi had formerly in the immemorial Banañju town of Kurumbetta granted with pouring of water to the Brahmans of the twelve fiefs of the Brahman quarter, which he had founded in the presence of the Prior of the Müla-sthana and all the Controllers of Records headed by the high sheriff and muligal Holli-Gavunda twelve dwellings for themselves among the dwellings situate within the four stones inscribed with the figure of the Dwarf, these Brahmans granted to the gods Malléévara, Dēvēšvara, and Madhava all the dwellings, save and excepting a strip of two cubits by the king's measure to serve for a road... on the east of their twelve houses.
(Ll. 51-53.) Also the controllers of records granted to the monastery of the Prior of these gods a dwelling of the same length as the wall of the temple of the Brahmans' quarter and 25 cubits in breadth, excluding the wall, on the southern side,
(L. 53.) Also the controllers of records set up and granted to these gods for the bazaar a stone inscribed with the figure of a phallus on the west of the Brahmans' quarter, to the south
of the road.
(Ll. 53-54.) Also Adi-Seṭṭi granted to these gods Sabbeṭṭa, a village forming part of Kurumbetta, for the personal enjoyment and theatrical entertainment of these gods, with immunity from all imposts,
(Ll. 54-55.) Also the controllers of records granted to these gods 1 garden east of and west of the road of Bagavadı, 1 garden to the monastery, 1 dwelling for the banabe. Also the controllers of records granted to these gods
(Ll. 56-66.) Hail! they who are adorned by a series of many virtues obtained by the decrees of the Five-hundred men renowned over the whole earth, possessing truthfulness, pure conduct, agreeable behaviour, policy, courtesy, and intelligence, pure in maintenance of the Vira-Banañja religion, splendid with the banner (bearing the device) of a hill, exalted in abundant boldness, holding holy conversation, scions of the races of Baladeva, Vasudeva,
1 On this word see the Miraj inscr., below, p. 40, f. n. 1.
These are the gods mentioned above on 1. 36. Mallesvara is the Siva consecrated in the name of Mallinatha, Děvesvara the Siva set up in the name of Deva-Setti.
This word usually means a 'stack'.
