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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY
[NOVEMBER, 1874.
Translation.
-bas, at a festival held for the inauguration of May it be well! In the race of the Chalkyas | the imaget of the holy Vishņu,-who destroys --worshippers of the feet of the lord (Vishnu), the hosts of his enemies with his chakra members of the Måaa vya-gotra, sons of which has the form of the sun rising on the disHariti, whose heads are purified with sacred solution of the universe-arranged for the reablutions after the performance of the Agnish- venues of the village named Nipinmalingetoma, Agnichayana, Vájapeya, Paundarika, Baśvara (?) to be applied for daily making offerhusayarņa, and Asvamedha rites--was born ings to Narayana and giving charitable relief to one who being endowed with the three (regal) sixteen Brahmans, distributing such food as repowers and possessed of extraordinary strength, mains to be eaten by mendicants. bravery and perseverance, is the full-moon in This grant is made in the presence of the the firmament of the Chalk ye race, his person sun, the fire, and the people, after pouring out being adorned by a numberless series of virtues, water, for the benefit, and to increase the reliwhilst his mind is imbued with the essence of the gious merit, of my eldest brother Kirttivarobjects of all sciences,-Śri Mangalisvaraman, the lord of valour, and beloved of gods, who-victorious in battle-in the twelfth year twice-born, and garus, who was equal to rule of his reign,-five hundred years having passed the multitudinous countries of the entire world, since the coronation of the king of the Sakas, and who was adornod with creepers of fame dehaving made his feet brilliant with the glitter pendent from the standards of victory guined in of the jewels of diadems of kings whose heads many battles thronged with chariots, elephants, he bent with the edge of the sword wielded by horses, and footmen; and spreading to (lit. only his own arm, and having, by the conquest of checked by the waves of the four seas. the earth bounded by the four oceans, become By many land is given, and by many it is the sole ?) receptacle of prosperity,-after retained; whoever, at any time, is in possession having built on the site of the most holy of the ground, he at that time enjoys the fruit
(Vishnu) a house of the great Vishņu, surpassing thereof. Guard thou diligently, 0 Yudhishthira, all things divine and human, constructed by that (land) which is given by thyself or by most marvellous labour and highly beautiful (or another; land is the most valuable gift of kings; conspicuous) through the enclosing boundaries and better than giving is protecting. He who of the chief and the adjoining grounds [? or, takes away ground given by himself or by anbeautiful on all sides on the chief, &c.]; t and other, together with his ancestors becomes a having in this (temple) on the great full-moon of worm and is immersed in dogs'ordure. Verses Karttika, made a grand gift to the Brahmans, composed by Vyâsa.
THE DOLMENS AT KONUR AND AIHOLLI. It would probably be a great help to the yet to be collected; many groups are entirely right understanding of the origin of the Rude unknown except to individuals, and must reStone Monuments of India to know main so until such persons can be induced to accurately their geographical distribution, and give some notice of them. the character and differences of the various Some years ago Mr. J. F. Fleet, C.S., made groups of such remains. Within the last few known to the writer the existence of dolmens years considerable attention has been directed at Konur, a village in the Belgâm Zilla, on to them, and though it is to be regretted that the Gh åtprabha river, about three miles some of them have been so ruthlessly handled W.N.W. from Gokâk, and much nearer and destroyed by investigators, the amount of to the justly famous falls of that name than information we now possess, in scattered papers, Gokak itself. The village of Konur is itself is very considerable. Much, however, remains in no way remarkable: it has a Jaina temple
• So here and lower down for Chalakya + The estampage had distinctly bhimibhagopab hagopari.
1 This my possibly refer to a figure of Vardha to the left of this macription, or to one of Vishnu on Ananta,
with the five hoods of the sake overshadowing his bead, which fills the east end of the veranda of the cave.-ED.
SA more common reading for fuavishthayath is savishthaydi.
