Epigraphia Indica Vol 20

Author(s): Hirananda Shastri
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India

Page 84

No. 6. 1
KOTAVUMACHGI INSCRIPTION OF VIKRAMADITYA V.
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49 kavileyuvan-alida pamcha-maha-patakan-akkum || Samanyō
50 yam dharmma-sētumr(setur)=nripāņām kālē kālē pālaniyō bhavadbhiḥ | 51 sarvvan-ētān-bhaginaḥ pärtthivēndrin-bhūyö bhūyō yachatě Ramabhadraḥ Il 52 Sva-dattam para-dattam vā yō harēta vasumdharam [*] shashti varsha-sahasrāņi vishṭāyām1 jāya
53 të krimiḥ | Bahubhir-vvasudha bhuktā
rajabhis-Sagar-adibhiḥ [*] yasya
yasya yada bhumi
54 [s-ta]sya tasya tada phalam | Govindabhaṭṭa[m] bareda Chāvājam kandarisida mangala mahā-śri [*]
Translation.
(Ll. 1-4) Hail! While the reign of the glorious Tribhuvanamalla Vikramadityadeva, the refuge of the whole world, the lord of Fortune and Earth, the Mahārājādhirāja, the Paramesvara, the Paramabhaṭṭāraka, the decoration of the race of Satyasraya, an ornament of the Chalukyas, was increasing in prosperity,
(Ll. 5-8) while the chief of great feudatories, the august General who had attained the five mahāśabdas, a man of might causing pleasure to his master, the glorious Dandanayaka Kēsavayya was administering with enjoyment of pleasant conversation, the Belvola-Three Hundred and Puligere-Three Hundred (provinces),
(Ll. 8-13) (Kesavayya), after requesting the glorious Tribhuvanamalladēva, made (the village) Ummachige situated in Nareyamgal-Twelve into an agrahara on sarvanamasya tenure along with full and complete rights of enjoyment of all the properties and obtaining it (from him) together with the ro al charter, the white umbrella and ghalige (i.e., an assembly hall)?, caused it to be granted to Maunara Sridharabhatta of Rona, on the eighth day of the bright half of Pushya, Sunday, the Uttarayana-samkranti, in the Saka year 934 corresponding to the cyclic year Paridhāvi.
(Ll. 13-16) That Sridharabhaṭṭa, after thus getting it, entrusted the village to the hundred and four Mahajanas with the conditions of enjoyment by himself, the Mahajanas and the people (of the village); the extents of land and house-sites for meeting the expenses of charity, other auxiliary objects and for grants for services (manya) are as follows:
(Ll. 16-22) Six mattar to god Somesvara, twelve mattar to (the temple of) Bhagiyabbēgvara"; twelve mattar to the feeding house of elköti ascetics; five mattar and one house(-site) to Aychagavunda's temple; five mattar and one house(-side) to Adityadeva; five matter and one house(-site) to (the goddess) Beṭṭada-Bhagavati; five mattar and one house(-site) to god Nārāyapa-these fifty mattar of land in all and the house-sites attached to them must be enjoyed by the bachelors of the family of Bendeya bhaṭāra, following the course of the naishthika ascetics.
1 Read vishṭhāyām.
See above Vols. XIII, p. 327n and XV, p. 93.
The temple was perhaps named after Bhagalabbe, the mother of Vikramaditya V.
Naishthika is one who lives in the house of his preceptor as a brahmacharin throughout his life. He is described as follows in the Garudapurāna :
मेडिको ब्रह्मचारी च वर्धद्राचार्थसन्निधौ । तदभावेऽस्य तनयै परम्यां वैश्वानरेऽपि वा ॥
विधिमा देहं साधयेद्दिजितेद्रियः । ब्रह्मलोकमवाप्नोति न च जायते पुनः ॥