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HOSUR INSCRIPTION OF VIRA-BALLALA, SAKAJ 1129
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of the year Krödhana itself or sometime prior to it. Further evidence by future research alone can settle these points. Since Ballala's father himself was Narasimha, his own son is oalled ChikkaNarasimga yya.
The geographical names that occur in the record are Mulugunda, Hosavår and Tuppadahalli besides the well-known Väraņāsi, i.e. Banaras which is usually mentioned in the imprecatory portion of such records. Mulugunda can be identified with modern Mulgund in the Gadag Taluk and Hosavür apparently is the modern Hosur, the findspot of the reoord. Tuppedahalli, however, cannot be identified, since no village of that name is now found in the vicinity of Hosur.
TEXTI
1 Svasti srimatu Yādava-Nārāyana-prata2 pa-chakravartti Hoyisaņa Vira-Ballala(1a)3 dēva-varusa (sha)da 1129 neya Prabhava sam4 vatsarada Asa (sha)da (dha)-su 11 Adivāra vi(vya)tipāta Ka5 rkkktaka samkramā(ma)padamdu Sriman-mahāpra6 dhānam sarvvadhikari chakravarttiya dvitiyan 7 kumāra[m*) Chikka-[Nara]simgayyamgalu(lu) Mulu(lu)gumda8 hamnenne)radan=ālu(lu)ttam Hosavūra Mahābala-gāvumda9 mukhyavägi Yēļu-nūrvvara kayyalu sarvvā(rvva)-bädha(dha)10 pariharav=[gi] dhārāpūrvvakaṁ mādisi-koudu 11 Sri-Mora kösva(sva)ra-dēvara amga-bhöga-namdā-divige-nivēdya12 kke bitta bhūmi dēvara pūrvvada keyimdam badagalu 13 Komda[ra*]sana keyimdaṁ müdalu brahmapu14 riya keyimdam temkalu Tuppadahali(li)15 ya batteyimdam paļuvalu bitta keyi hi16 riyakölu mattaru 1 [l*] Yi-dhamma(rmma)vam nādan=āļuv-ara17 sugaļu pratipāļisuvaru [l*] Pratipāļisadavargge Vä18 raņāsiyalu sāyira-kavileyam komda pāta19 kav=aku(kku) !
TRANSLATION
Lines 1-10. Hail! In the year 1129 of the illustrious Yådava-Nārāyana Pratápachakravarti Vira-Ballāļa dēva of the Hoysaļa family and the year Prabhava, on Sunday, the 11th day of the bright half of Ashādha, when there were vyatipāta (yoga) and Karkataka-sarikramana, Mahāpradhana and Sarvvadhikari Chikka-Narasimgayya, the second son of the emperor, while administering (the division of) Mulugunda Twelve, obtained with the pouring of water from the Seven-Hundred of Hosavūr headed by Mahābalagāvunda, land, free from all imposts.
1 From ink impressions. . Apparently this standa for the sake your.
