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No. 4). TWO INSCRIPTIONS FROM KOLHAPUR AND MIRAJ: SAKA 1058 1066. 35
prowess, like Ganga's son [Bhishma] in purity, like Bhima in boldness, like Dharma's son (Yudhishthira] in righteonsness, like Şahadeva in knowledge, like Indra in enjoyment, like Karpa in bounty, like the sun in brilliance; they who are the supreme lords of Ayyavole city, which is known as Ahichohhatra; to wit, the Five-hundred Svāmis, the gavares, the gatriyas, the setfis, the setti-guttas, the gamandas, the chief-gamandas, the men of valour, and the merchants of valour, Bilhaga (P)-8€¢ţi and Govinda-Seçti of Kollapura, Komara Annamayya, Bijja-Secţi and Boppi-Betti of Miriñje, Vesapayya-Setti the royal merchant of Gandarādityadēva, BammiSetti of the Mandalesvara's household, the headman RĀva-Seçti, who is recorder of the house of the San-god in Künditown, Chaudhore Boppi-89ţti, Kannapayya-Sotti the sheriff of Toram. bage, Chaudhore Goravi-Soçti the intendent of Mayisige, Sänti-Soţţi of Baleyavattapa, HiliyaSetti the lion of the Five-hundred of Ayyavole, Khapparayya the sheriff of Kavadegolla, and others, (representing) the whole country, being assembled :
(LI. 24-26) on Monday, the fifth of the dark fortnight of Kärttika in the cyclio year Rökshasa, the thousand and Afty-eighth (year) of the Saka era, laved the feet of Srutakirtti Traividyadēvs, of the Pustaka-Gachchha in the Dēsiya-Gaņa of the Müla-Sangha, who is the prior of the temple of Rapa-nårāyapa in Kollāpura, and with pouring of water gave the following revenues :
(LI. 26-32) Areca-nuta, fifty on a load, twenty on a half-load, five on a hasara ; betel leaves, one hundred on a load, fifty on a head-load, twenty-five on a hasara ; clarified butter and oil, a sollaget on each koda, half a maund on each siddige, one maund on each sangadi. On each cloth-merchant's shop and goldsmith's shop, a panam on every gold piece. Cotton, five palas on each malava; two bisige on each malave of karuse (sold) from carts, ten palas on each half-load. On each house of larikas there shall be every six months (a due of) stools, tripods, and maravi, one of each; every year there shall be (a due of) one bedstead. On goods sold by weight, such as green ginger, turmeric, dry ginger, garlic, baje, and bhadramuste, there shall be (a due of) five palas on each load, two palas on a half-load, one pala on a hasara ; cummin, black pepper, and mustard, one maund on each load, a half-mannd on each half-load, a sollage on each hasara ; on salt and the other eighteen kinds of grain, one kolaga on each cart-load, two maunds on each load, one maund on each head-load; dry and fresh fruits, ten on each cart-load, four on each head-load; on each cart-load one dandige, five myrobolans; on each pair of hates one dandige, two myrobolans; on each basket of flowers one garland; for the potters, one pot on each shop. (LI. 32-33: Kanarese prose commonitory formula of the usual type.)
B- RAJ INSCRIPTION OF SAKA 1085 AND 1088. Yliraj, the ancient Mirije, is the chief town of the Miraj State in the Southern Maraths Country, and lies in lat. 16° 48' and long. 74° 12'. The present opigraph was found on a slab built into the wall in the gateway of the fort. A photograph, from the stone, was published in P.8.0.0.1. (No. 96), and a notice is given in Kielhorn's List of Southern Inscriptions, above, Vol. VII, App., No. 322.-The stone bears on its top a triangular pediment containing soulptures, namely: in the centre a liriga on a stand; to the proper right of this a quatting ball facing it; above these, on the right the sun and on the left the moon. The inscribed area
1 A monstre of capacity, of a kudara or balja (see Kittel, s.v. solage).
* Siddige or sidde moans properly leather bottlo. As a measure, Kidde is defined by the Kina är Glossary s dry measure of 88 tola, in Kumta, Honawar, and Siddlapar, and 29 tolas in Bhatkal, and fuid measure of 88 tolas in Ankola And 28 tolas in Bhatkal (p. 171).
Apparently something like a double siddige. Apparently "Carpenters." "Some wooden article of furniture. The acorus calamu (Linn.). The cyperus heaastachy. (Rottler) or root of eyperw pertenuis (Roxb.)
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