Epigraphia Indica Vol 34

Author(s): D C Sircar
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India

Page 69

EPIGRAPHIA INDICA
[VOL. XXXIV
next line contains an endorsement in Kannada stating that the gift land was measured with a particular rod 48 spans in length. The measuring rod is called Bächividiya-ghalē which is also known from other records. The names of two donees (Nos. 55-56 of the tabular list) are added in lines 86-89. The distribution of the house sites is not specified in the inscription.
Among the geographical names occurring in the record, Kundanguli, whence the grant is said to have been made, occurs as Kundangula in the Kundgo! inscription of Simhana and may be safely identified with the findspot of that inscription, viz. Kundgo! near Hubli in the Dharwar District of Mysore State. The well-known Beluvala-dēsa, often called Beļvala(or Beļvola)-300, has been identified by Fleet with the Gadag-Annigere-Kurtaköți-Nargund-Hüli-Kukkanör region comprising parts of the Dharwar and Belgaum Districts and their neighbourhood. Among the other names, viz. Vēņņā-nadi flowing by the east of Hērūru, in which the gift land was situated, and the localities called Kuruhatti, Hullalegere and Kisuvangallu which were situated respectively to the south, west and north of the gift land lying in the western part of Hērūru, the river Vépņā is no doubt modern Bennihalla, while Kisuvamgallu is apparently modern Kusugal near Hubli, the same place being mentioned in the Kendur plates of Kirtivarman II as Kisumangalam and located in that record in the Veļvola vishaya, i.e. the Beluvaladēša of our record. Although the localities called Hérūru, Kuruhatti and Hullalegere cannot be traced on the 2-inches-to-l-mile map of the Dharwar Collectorate, there is little doubt that the gift land was situated in the area lying to the south of Kusugal, to the north of Kundgol, to the east of Hubli and to the west of the Benni-halla. There is a place called Hallihal midway between Kusugal and Kundgol, though it's difficult to say whether it is the same as Hullalegere of our inscription. There is also & village called Konkana-Kurhatti about 11 miles to the south-east of Kusugal. But its situation does not appear to suit exactly that of Kuruhatti lying to the south of the gift land and therefore of Kisuvamgallu (Kusugal) according to the inscription."
TEXT [Metres : verse 1 Sārdūlavikrīdita ; verses 2-13 Anushtubh.]
First Plate 1 Pātu triņi jagamti samtatam=akūpārā-10 2 t=sa mabhyudhdha(ddha)ram11 dhātrim Krödha(da)-kalēvaraḥ sa bha
1 The Haralahalli plates have in this context the expression tad-deka-prasiddha-dandena (text line 60). . Cf. Ep. Carn., Vol. V, Hn. 66. . JBISM, Vol. XV, pt. IV, pp. 22 ff. • Bomb. Gaz., op. cit., p. 304.
• The Kannada word halfa means 'a small river'. That Venna and Benni are the same is indicated by tho various spellings of the name of the same river as Krishnavena, bēnna, venna, "vēni, vēnya, ovērva, etc. Cf. Monier. Williams, Sana.-Eng. Dict., s.v. Krishna and Vena; IHQ, Vol. XXVII, p. 226, note 52 ; also p. 224, note 45; above, Vol. XXX, p. 117; Select Inscriptions, p. 207. The name seems to have been confused with Sanskrit veni or vent braid of hair' (cf. Trivēnt), which means 'a river as well in Telugu-kannada.
. Above, Vol. IX, p. 204.
* Hérüru mentioned in the Gadag inscription, probably situated in Kisukad.70 and identified by Fleet with modern Bēlür in the Bijapur District (on the ground that the ancient name of the place was Pērür; cf. Bomb. Caz., p. 619, note 1: Ind. Ant., Vol. X VIII, p. 271), is different from the locality of the same name mentioned in our record.
From impressions.
The sign for the subscript ra looks more like that for medial . 10 P8 was originally engraved 11 Read "ran. 1. The ultimuktavali reads Kolao.