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I suggested that these might be the remains of an Italian coins in the district, which' might throw early Portuguese Settlement. It has been suggest- some light on this matter. I have not, however, ed in an article in the Madras Mail, that they are been able to trace any. Sir Walter Elliot, who was more probably the remains of the early Venetian a most successful collector of coins, may, perhaps, or Genoese traders, who penetrated to India by the have been more fortunate, and may be in a position land route long before the Portuguese visited the to afford some information that may assist in clearcountry. I have heard of the discovery of olding this doubt.
THREE MAISUR COPPER GRANTS. Memo. on Certain Copper Grants found during the Settlement of the Ináms in the Malnád or Hill-tracts
of the Nagar Division. DURING my investigation into the ináme lo- | J. TRANSLATION OF THE COPPER GRANT PROcated in the Malnád talukas of the Nagar division, DUCED BY THE AGRAHARDARS OF KUPPAGADE
SORABA TALUKA. I had occasion to inspect the copper grants held by the Agrahárdárs of the villages of-1. Kuppagadde,
ŚLOKA I.-Jayatyávish kritam Vishnor. Soraba Taluka; 2. Gauja, Anantapura Taluka ; 3.
Váráham kshobhitárnavam: Bhímanna Katté Matha of the Kávaledurga Taluka.
Dakshinonnata damshtrágra. It will be observed in the translations of the
Vishránta bhuvanam vapuhu. grants for the Gauja and Kuppagadde Agraharas, The body of Vishnu, incarnate in the form of a which have been rendered by my Personal Assistant, boar, on the edge of whose lofty right tusk the that these grants are said to have been made during earth rested, and which agitated and troubled the the great “Sarpa Yága," or sacrifice of serpents, ocean, exists in transcendent glory. though the allusion to the solar eclipse is only made Emperor Janaméjaya; the refuge of the whole in the grant for the Gauja Agrahára. A copy of this universe ; the master of the earth; the Mahárája grant was sent some years ago by Sir Mark-Cubbon of Rájas; the arbiter of Rajas; the great Mahárája; to Colonel Ellis, who was then Political Agent at the master of Hastinapura, the Queen of cities; the Bundelkhand. Colonel Ellis asserted that the solar bestower of widowhood on the wives of the hostilo eclipse alluded to in the grant was that of 1521 A.D., princes of Aroha and Bhagadatta ; the sun of the and drew the conclusion that the Janaméjaya lotus of the Pandava race; the skilful in warfare ; alluded to must have been one of the Vijayanagar whose sun-like bow resembled the Kalinga serpent ; kings. Colebrooke denounced this grant as a for- the single-handed hero ; the updaunted in battle; gery, and declared that the writing was modern, the slayer of Advapatiráya' and Disápata Gajapaand that the errors in the composition betrayed gross tiráya'; the smiter at the head of Narapatiráya; the ignorance.
terror of Sárnanta Mriga Chainara, Konkana and The grant of the Bhímankatte Matha is dated the four quarters of the globe; the famous in in the 89th year of the era of Yudhishthira, who was Bharata Sastra, consisting of pure Salanga, Brahthe eldest of the five brothers, the sons of Pandu by ma, Vina, &c., sprung froin the mouth of Brahma ; his wife Kunti or Puthá. This Matha is situated on professor of many Sástras, the celebrated professor the banks of the Tunga and takes its name from a of the three mantras (charms) of Korantaka Vyála Katte, or aniout, partly natural and partly composed Nága, &c., whose lotus-like feet are universally of huge blocks of stone, which Bhíma, another of the
saluted; the fire of the abodes of inimical dynasfive sons of Pándu, is alleged to have hurled across the
ties; the ever-bright; the son of others' wives; bed of the river so as to form the dam. I have begun the bearer of the flag of the golden boar; the the translation of the legendary account of the origin most refulgent in the circle of Rajas; who is duly of this Matha, but as pointed out by Mr. Narasim- adorned; the descendant of the blessed lunar race; miyengar, the doctrine of Madhaváchárya was only and the son of the emperor Parikshit was reigning at promulgated between 5 and 600 years ago. What- Hastinapura in the midst of happy and virtuous ever may be the origin of the Matha, the dam bears amusements. During an expedition of conquest, updoubted traces of the wondrous magnitude of the at the confluence of the Tungabhadra and Haridra, works of those days.
at the shrine of Hariharadéva, in the dark half of
ROB. COLE, the month of Chaitra of the year 111, on Monday Supt. of Inám Settlements, Mysore. combined with Bharani Nakshatra, Sankránti and 5th August, 1872.
Vyatipáta Nimitta, on the occasion of Sarpa Yága
* Conf.Ind. Antiq. pp. 186-7. Vide ante p. 850.-ED.
See Colebrooke, Essays, Vol. II. p. 285.-ED.
Treats of music pantomime Astronomical symbols.
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