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at the sacrifice of battle, where the fire of his valour shone the brighter for the many oblations of streams of melted butter-the blood of his opponents, he has secured from me, Vira-Nārāyaṇa, this edict which to the world's end proclaims him a hero, resulting from his expiatory rite - the destruction of my foes, and acquired by the efficiency of his spell - the restoration of my fortune.
(Line 34.) At the request of this my dear servant Bankēya, I, residing at the capital of Manyakhēta, - seven hundred and eight-two years having passed since the time of the Saka king, on the auspicious occasion of a total eclipse of the moon on the full-moon tithi of Aśvayuja in the year Vikrama, the eight-third current year-have given the village of Taleyüra, in the bhukti of the seventy villages of Majjantiya, to him who has been appointed to take care of the Jina sanctuary founded by Bankēya at Kolanūra-viz. (vv. 35 and 36) to Dēvēndra, the chief of ascetics (muniśvara) to whom Bankēya has given the temple, the disciple of Trikālayõgisa, born from the Pustaka gachchha of the Dēsiya gana of the Mūla samgha - for any new work connected with the sanctuary, for future repairs, for the cleansing, plastering, maintaining of it, and for other acts of piety. The boundaries of the village are, on the east of the said Kolanūra, Bendanūru, on the south, Sāsavevā[du], on the west of it, Paạilagere, and on the north, Kilavāda.
(L. 45.) I also have given twelve nivartanas of land at Kolanūra itself, and at each of the following thirty villages within its bhukti, viz. Avaravā[d]i, Bendanūru, Mudugundi, Kittaivole, Sulla, Mus[a], Da[dh]ere, Māvinūru, Mattikatte, Nila[gun]dage, Tāļikhēda, B[e]lleru, Samgama, Pirisingi, Muttalagere, Kākeyanūru, Behuru, Alūgu, [Pārva]nagere, Hosan[ja]ļa[lu), I[n]dugalu, Neri[a]ge, Haganüru, Unalāņu, Indagere, Munivalli, Kotta[s]e, Oddittage, Si[kimabri?), and Giri[pi]dalu.
Lines 48-57 contain the usual admonition not to obstruct
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