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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[AUGUST, 1883.
confiscates land that has been given, whether gateway of the courtyard of this temple, and by himself or by another!
a few steps to the south of it, there is a small The writing (is) made by Divakara. (May stone cell, partly below the level of the ground, there be) auspicious and great good fortune! facing north. The present inscription," of
At ........, Chåvandayya gave ten which a lithograph has been given on the mattars of culturable land.
second side of the Plate in Vol. XI. pp. 126-7, (L. 5.) -It is very easy to give one's own is on the front face of a stone over the door property, but the preservation of the grant of) of the inner cell. The writing covers a space another is difficult; if (it is asked) whether of 9' high by 3' 9' broad. There are no sculpgiving or preserving (is the more meritorious), tures over the inscription. The language is (preservation) is better than giving !
Old-Canarese. No. cxxx.
The inscription records the building of the This is another inscription of Krishna II. cell, for a saint named Monibhatára, which In Vol. IX. p. 74, I have mentioned the should perhaps be Mannibhatára, in Saka 831 temple of the god Galiganatha in Survey for 833 (A.D. 911-2), the Prajapati sarivatsara, No. 75 at Aihole, in the Hungund Talukâ of the while Kannara, i.e. Krishna II., was Kaladgi District. Just outside the sculptured reigning.
Transcription." ['] Svasti Saka-nțipa-kål-âti(ti)ta-samvatsara-satamgal-eņķu nûra vu(mů) vatto[n]da-ney& ['j Prajapatiy=emba samvatsara[m] pravarttise [1] Kannara[m] pri(pri)thivirajyam
geyye [1] ['] Nagara-samadâya-ndha(dha)rmma[m] [] Pûrvvőkta"-munibhir-dřishtam dharmma
sastra-prachô[*] ditam yôgi-gåram"-idaru p[ro]oktam su(sû)ribhih pariveshtitam [ll] Mo(man P)ni
bhatârara guhe [ll] Translation.
the west by north from Nargund in the NawalWhile the sasivatsara named Prajapati, 1 gand Taluka of the Dharwad District. The which was the eight hundred and thirty-first sculptures at the top of the stone, which are (of) the centuries of years that have elapsed done in outline and not in the usual finished from the time of the Sa ka king, was current; style, are-central, a linga ;-others, Nandi; while Kannara was ruling the earth; a cow and calf; the sun and moon; and the (this cell was built as) the religious act of the word fri, for éri, in characters of the same assemblage of (all the people of) the city. type as those of the inscription itself. The
(L. 3.) This abode of an ascetic,--which inscription covers & space of 2 9 high by has been beheld by saints previously mention- 23'' broad. The language is Old-Canarese ; ed, and the building of) which has been and the inscription is entirely in verse. prescribed by the writings of religion,-is The inscription records grants that were declared to be) surrounded by learned people. made to a tank called Kanthamagere, in Saka (This is the cave of Monibhatára.
840 for 841 (A.D, 929-30), the Pramåthi sanNo. CXXXI.
vatsara, at the time of the makara-samkramana Krishna II. was succeeded by his son or passage of the sun from Sagittarius into Jagattunga II." This, again, is only a Capricornus,-while Prabhâta varsha III. titlo; the real name being as yet unknown. was reigning.
The present inscription is from #stone- This inscription gives a new date and a new tablet at the well called Kolakokkana-bhøvi at title in the genealogy. We know that A môthe hamlet of Daņdâpar, which is two miles to gha varsha I. reigned from Saka 736.7 up
• Pal, Sanskrit, and Old-Canaren, Inscriptions, No. 19.
Prajapati samvatsara was Šaka 833, and Saka 831 w From the original stone. The mark after this letter, kta, appears to be
the Sukla sarvatmara.
Not in this inscription, however. fault in the stone, rather than to be intended for an I find that, in the case of both this king and anupudra. # Gara usually occurs only in the compound form
Govinda III., the title of Jagadrudrs is due only to a agara, 'ruom, covered place, dwelling-house, receptacle.'
mistake of Mr. Wathen in reading Jagadrudna instead By the Tables in Brown's Carnatic Chronology the
of Jagattunga in l. 12 of the Karda plates, which will be published shortly in this series.
