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total eclipse of the moon on the full-moon tithi of the month Āśvayuja (or Āśvina) in the [Jovian) year Vikrama, SakaSamvat 782 expired or, as is expressly stated, 83 current (II. 43 and 44) - king Amõghavarsha [I.], the successor of Jagattunga (II. 15 and 16), residing at his capital of Mānyakhēța (1.34), at the request of his subordinate Bankēša (Bankēya) and in recognition of important services rendered by him granted the village of Taleyūra (I. 38) and some land in other villages (II. 45-48), for the benefit of a Jaina sanctuary founded by Bankēya at Koļanūra, to the age Dēvēndra, who had been appointed by Bankēya to the charge of the sanctuary, the disciple of Trikālayõgisa, of the Pustaka gachchha of the Dēsiya gana of the Mula samgha (II. 35-38). The introductory part of the inscription - after two versed of which one invokes the blessing, at the same time, of the god Vishņu (Jina) and the first Jaina prophet (Jinēndra), and the other the protection of both Vishņu (Nārāyana) and the king Amõghavarsha himself, as in verse 34, called ViraNārāyaṇa - in verses 3-11 gives the genealogy of Amõghavarsha. Verses 17-34 contain a eulogistic account of the services rendered by Bankēša (Bankēya). And the concluding lines 57-59 record the writer's name, Vatsarāja, and that of Bankëyarāja's chief adviser, the Mahattara Ganapati.
It may at once be stated here that the date given above undoubtedly is correct. The Jovian year Vikrama corresponds to Saka-Samvat 782 expired, by both luni-solar systems; and on the full-moon day of Aśvina of that year, corresponding to the 3rd October A. D. 860, there was a total eclipse of the moon, fully visible in India for more than three hours. But much as the correctness of a date, containing such particulars as are given here, would speak in favour of the genuineness of a record, there is at least one point in the preceding, which raises a doubt whether the stone inscription, even if it was
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