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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[August, 1889
the habitation of pride ; born in the lineage tions are fairly numerous in the Canarese of the Rattas; he who possesses the sign of country. And he is mentioned in several of Garuda; he who has the sounds of the the inscriptions of the later Ratas of Saun(musical instrument called) sivili; the supreme datti and Belgaum. The earliest of them lord of the city of Latt'altra, -was con mentions him as reigning in Saka 797 (A.D. tinning, like the kingdom of the great Vishņu, 875-6), the Manmatha sasivatsara; but he 80 as to endure as long as the moon and sun must at that time have been only the Yuvarája, might last :
or heir-apparent and viceroy of his father in (L. 15.)-While the sasivatsara named the southern part of his dominions. In two Vyaya, which was the seven hundred and of the Ratta inscriptions he is called Krishna eighty-seventh (of) the years that had elapsed Kandhara and KỊishņa-Kandhára. from the time of the Sak a king, was current; And in one of these two passages he has the (and) while the fifty-second (of) the augment- title of Kandhára-puravar-adhióvara, or 'supreme ing years of the victorious reign of him who lord of Kandhára pura, the best of cities.' was marked with the glorious name of Am 6. There may have been an original city of the ghavarsha-NȚipatunga was continuing Rashtraktas, named Kandhara pura ; but the with perpetual increase of sovereignty :- present mention of it is as yet an isolated one.
(L. 17.)-While, through the favour of the The present inscription, of which a lithoking Atisa y ad ha vala, the glorious D - graph has been given on the second side of vannayya --who is a bee at the water the Plate in Vol. XI. pp. 126-7, is on the exposed lilies which are the feet of Amôghavarshadeva; part of the stone beam over the entrance to the and who is the refuge of excellent people, adytum of the shrine of the temple of the god was dwelling at Anpigere, governing the Mûkâdêva at Nandwadige, in the Hungund Belvola Three-hundred :
Talukâ of the Kalâdgi District. The temple (L. 19.)- At the time of an eclipse of the seems to have beer originally Jain, as there are san, on Sunday, the new-moon day of the month Lakshmi and her elephants on the lintel of the Jyaishtha, -having washed the feet of the two door of the shrine ;9" it has now been approhundred Mahajanas, headed by Ravikayye, of priated to linga worship. It seems to be in no (the village of) Srivúra, he" allotted the way remarkable for architecture or sculpturen tax on clarified batter.
and to be of importance only on account of (L. 21.)-He who preserves this ordinance, the inscription in it. When I saw it in 1876, it shall acquire the reward of giving a thousand was in a state of great decay, and seemed likely cows at Båraņåsi; he who destroys it and soon to collapse and fall in. The inscription consumes the clarified butter, shall be (as) one covers a space of 9' high by 7' 6" broad. who destroys a thousand tawny-coloured cows There are no scalptures above the inscription. or a thousand Brahmaņs at Barañasi.
The language is Old-Canarese. (L. 22.)-Written by Madhavayya, at the The first part of the king's name, and the command of Nimbichchara-Bammayyas set number of the centuries in the date, are now up(?by Sirigåvanda, at the command of quite effaced; but there can be no doubt as to Någårjana.
the letters that have to be supplied. It is an No. CXXIX.
inscription of Akalavarsha, i.e. Krishna II. ; Amoghavarsha I. was succeeded by his son and it is dated in Saka 822 for 824 (A.D. Krishņa II., also called Kannara, Kandhara- 902-3), the Dundubhi sainvatsara. The name of Vallabha, Krishnávallabha, and Akala var. the god of the temple is effaced. The inscripBha II. His wife, whose name is not men- tion records & grant of land, the details of tioned, was a daughter of Kokkala or which are partly effaced. Kokkalla I. of the Kaļa churi or Kulachuri The Eastern Chalukya inscription, from which dynasty of Tripura or Tewar. His inscrip- I have quoted at page 218 above, shows that * i.e. Dêrappaya.
understand, I have spoken of it there, and also in Vol » As we learn now from the Kadab grant, Krishưa VII. D. 910 of this journal, as being dated Baka 722 and I was Akalavarsha I. 3* Pau, Sanskrit, and Old-Canarese, Inscriptions,
of the time of Dhruva or of Govinda III.
| 36 Gaja Lakshmi is however also a Vaishnavs bogni No. 85. --Through some mistake which I do not now sanoe.-J. B.
