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Ll. 23ff. and while Madda-Heggade who had the name Tirumalarasa, an ornament to the lotus face of the damsel the Tuļuva country, the young sun (emerging from the eastern mountain, viz., the throne of Kap which is from time immemorial famous in all directions, (the incarnation as it were of) all the ancients like Bharatal radiant with the rays of multitudes of ornaments of fresh gems, the collection of many virtues, which were possessed by no other man of royal descent, viz., friendliness, generosity, prowess, sweetness, profundity, policy, politeness, truth and purity, etc., was ruling the chiefdom of Kāp assisted by his assembly, communal and professional guilds and his subordinate officers;
LI. 2811. hail! 'Munichandradēva, the disciple of Abhinavadēvakirtidēva, the acharya of the circle of royal preceptors, the lord of great disputants, emperor of all learned men, resplendant with several such birudas, the foremost follower) of the Känür-gana ;
LI. 31 ff. his disciple Dāvachandradēva requested Tirumalarasa alias Madda-Heggade, his assembly, communal and professional guilds and his officers to grant a piece of land with the help of several people) of Kāp, with the intention of instituting a charity at Kāp for the final beatitude of his guru Munichandradēva ;
LI. 36ff, and as they were of a charitable temperament, they, out of devotion to their preceptor, granted, with pouring of water, on the western side of the village of Mallāru (situated) within their province, in the place called Kalantopatina-bäske, on the inner side of the trench, one bestu land requiring seed (for sowing) of 2 mude of paddy calculated at 30 balla(for each mude) and outside the trench one wet land called Päpinadi requiring 4 müde calculated at 30 balla and a bāgila land requiring seed of 4 mūde calculated at 30 balla; (in all) three wet lands requiring seed of 10 mide, with the properties attached to them, viz., kare, mure, house, well, jack-trees, mango-trees, sumbe, nikkil, urkkaṁrdde, crop, water and stone; (and Dēvachandra. dēva) received 80 big varāhas-in words eighty-(being the money income of the said lands).
Ll. 44ff. From this gold (was to be purchased), at both crops, 24 mūde of rice calculated at 80 baļļa of the standard prevalent in the bazaar. The (following are the) details of the charities to be managed with this rice :
LI. 46ff. 10 müde of rice for the rice offering at noon at the rate of one balla each day and for the hālu-dhāre, conducted in the name of Munichandradēva to Dharmanātha-Tirtharkara in the lower storey of the temple at Kāp; 12 müde of rice for feeding Jain ascetics (samudaya) on 2 days in the month, viz., the 17th and 25th day. If either of these days happened to be a Margalā-trayodasi, 2 müde of rice were provided for the extra expenses that would have to be incurred to celebrate that Mangalā-trayodasi. Thus the total is 24 müde.
LI. 53f. In this place of charity the taxes anaya and sanāyas were not to be levied by the Ballálag; the Vokkalu had no bitti? and bidāral and the fees kāpike, dese and appane could not be raised.
Ll. 55ff. (This is) the copper-plate inscription recording the sarvamänya gift caused to be written and granted by Tirumalarasa alias Madda-Heggade, his assembly, communal and professional guilds and subordinate officers out of their own free will and devotion to their guru.
1 Bharata was the brother of Bahubali or Gommata and son of Adinātha, the first Tirthaúkara. (Above, Vol. VII, p. 108 and Mysore Arch. Rep. for 1913, p. 5).
bettu is a wet land capable of yielding one crop annually. balla is equal to 2 seers generally. • aya generally means income but the import of anaya is not clear.
Bundys is perhaps & mistake for sinaya, 1.6., tax paid towards the maintenance of an army. • Ballalar are, like the Heggades, sot of the Bant claas (South Canara Manual, Vol. I, p. 159). wifi generally means free labour. bidana is perhaps mistake for binda, a tax. (Se 8. I. I., Vol. 1V, Nov. 266 su 276).
