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VOL. XXVIII Third Plate: First Side 24 kama[h*) bri-Sõmēsvaradēvavar[m]mä' pradadē [ll*] 25 Bhūmim yaḥ pratigrihņāti yas-cha bhūmim prayachchhati [l*]u26 bhau dvau (tau) punya-karmāņau niyatau(tam) svargga-gaminau || 27 Mā bhū[d=a]phala-sankā vaḥ para-datt=ēti pārtthiva(vāb) sva28 dattāt=phalam=ānantyam para-datt-ānupālanē | Gām=ēkām 29 svarpnam=ēkam bhūmēr=apy=addha(rddha)m-angula[m *) haran-narakam-āpnd30 ti yāvad-abūta-samplavam(vam) ||Yad-vairi-bhūpāla-vilāsini81 näm=ū(m=u)tkshipta-bānē(rē)yu(shu) payodharēshu | asru-pravāhah prithu-obā(ha)
Third Plate : Second Side 32 va(ta)-ya[shți[m") vin=aiva sūtrāņa samāsasañja || Yasy=ā33 nvayê bhūpatir=ēsha jätah Yasögajao ity=āhita34 rāja-simhaḥ [l*) yasmina(smin) vinikshipya dhuran=dharitryāḥ 35 susvā(shvá)pa vārddhau mudito Mukundaḥ | Yásy=āvarödhu36 stana-chandanānām prakshālanād=väri-vihāra-kālē | Chi37 trötpala Svarpavati-gat=āpi | Gang-ormmi-sa[m*)saktam=iv=ā38 vibhātill
No. 46-TWO NISHIDHI INSCRIPTIONS FROM SONDA
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P. B. DESAI, OOTACAMUND Sonda in the Sirsi taluk of the North Kanara District, Bombay State, is a small hamlet with few residential buildings. A dilapidated fort, some deserted temples, a few monastic establishments and ruins scattered over a large area bespeak the eminence once enjoyed by this place. Besides being the headquarters of the Nāyaka chiefs who ruled over this tract during the period of the 16th to the 18th centuries, this was once, in the heyday of its glory, a busy commercial centre with its communications extending far into the inland on one side and to the foreign countries through the activities of the Portuguese and English traders on the other. The name of the place occurs in earlier records in various forms, viz., Södā, Söde, Svădi, Södāpuri, Sudhāpuri, etc.
In addition to the matha founded by the Madhva saint Vădirāja Tirtha, Sõnda contains a Jaina maths of pontifical dignity, though in & deoayed condition. This is known traditionally as the
1 Mr. Mazumdar read this name as Yogesvaradēvavarmma. What he read as y8 is definitely 88 and the letter rond by him wgl isml. For similar forms of m se varmmd in the same line and mandala in plato C a, lino 1, of tho Bonopur places of Kumara Somesvaradeva : above, Vol. XII, p. 240 and plate.
* The text is here metrically defective. • The mark of punctuation is superfluous. • North Kanara District Gazetteer, part II, pp. 52 and 349.
