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A. D., raises certain issues. We know from other inscriptions of Sankama II that he began to rule in 1177-78 A. D. and continued till 1182 A. D. as the latest inscription of his reign belongs to the fifth regnal year, while his younger brother Ahavamalla began to rule in 1182 A. D. to which his earliest inscriptions belong. But the present grant was made by Sañkama in 1186 A. D. The problem cannot be solved in the present state of our knowledge.1
Among the localities mentioned in the charter, Nimbahura is the Sanskritized form of Kannada Nimbahalla from which the present name Nimbal has been derived. The gift village of Bobbulavaddhe may be modern Bäblad, three miles west of Nimbal. Ankulage, the headquarters of a group of 50 villages in which the gift village was situated, may be the present Ankalgi in the Bijapur Taluk. The territorial division Tarikada-kampaņa formed part of the ancient Kuntala country and roughly comprised the northern areas of the present Mysore State..
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[Meters : Verses 1-6, 11-19, 21 Anushtubh verses 7-10 Sārdūlavikridita verse 20 Sālini.] First Plate
1 घोम् । स्वस्ति । नमः (म ) स्तुंगशिरः (र) चुं (धुं)स्वं
2 बी (बि) चंद्रचामरचारवे [*] त्रैलोक्य
3 नगरारंभमूलस्तंभाव सं ( शं) भ
4वे ॥ [ १* ] अस्ति क्षत्रियरत्नानामाकराः] सा
5 गरायति । कुलं कलचुरीत्याख्यं वि
6 ख्यातं भुवनत्रये ॥[। २* ] तदन्ववायो (ये)
7 []ाजाभू [त्*] कृष्णः कृष्ण [इ]वापरः । अ
8पि बालस्य चरितं (त) मद्भुतं यस्य गी
9 यते । [ ३ ] स [जोगममही[प] [कालं वै]
।
10 रिमहीभुजा[म्*] ।। (1) वीरंकवंद्यमहसा (सां) पा
11 पुत्रमदी (जी) जननु (नत्) [४*] दाक्षिण्यजल
श्रं
1[The author's statements regarding the reign period of Sankams and the beginning of the rule of Ahavamalla are inaccurate. Fleet assigns Sankama's rule to 1177-80 A. D. (Bomb. Gaz., Vol. I, Part ii, pp. 486 ff.) and P. B. Desai to 1175-80 A. D. (Karnatakada Kalachurigaļu, 1951, pp. 54-55). Epigraphic evidence on the subject is rather confusing. The genuineness of the grant published bere is not beyond doubt.-Ed.]
• From the original plates.
• Expressed by symbol.
