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Bengal,' but has since then been identified with Srimantan Rajamayyan=Dba(Pva)lagam=uruMahåsthân, on the Karatoya, seven miles to the taran-Tatabikkiñ prachanda[]. north of Bôgra in Northern Bengal."
Bijjam sajja(P) cha yuddh balinam=atitaI have another inscription of Govinda råm-Ayyapam bhimam-ugram V., dated Saka 851 for 852 (A.D. 930-1), the dandam Govindaraja-praņihitam-adhikam ChôVikrita samvatsara, at the time of an eclipse la-pam Lôvabikkim of the moon on Sunday the full-moon day of vikrânta[ro] Yuddhamallam ghatita-gaja-ghethe month Magha, -- from Kalas, in the Ban- țân(e)=sannihaty=aika dva | kapur Talukd of the Dharwad District. In "Having, unaided, slain the glorious Rajathis inscription, he is called Gojjiga d ê va, mayya, (and) the mighty Dhalaga, (and) and has also the titles of Nripatunga II., Vira- the fierce Bijja, and Ayyap & who was Narayana, and Ratta-Kandarpa.10
(always) ready and was exceedingly powerful And an Eastern Chalukya grant, the origi- in war, (and) the terrible and fierce army that nal plates of which belong to Sir Walter Elliot, was despatched by Govindaraja, (and) the mentions the defeat by Bhima II., who reigned great Lô va bikki, the ruler of the Cholas, from about Saka 845 to about Saka 857, of (and) the valorous Yuddhamalla" (and his)
Rashtrakata force sent against him by drawn-up arrays of elephante, ..... Govinda V. It is therein said of Bhima [this king Sri-Bhima protected the whole II. (11. 34-8):
earth for twelve years.]" Transcription."
First plate. ['] Om [ll"] Jayanti Vra(bra)hmaṇaḥ sargga-nishpatti-mudit-Atmanah Sarasvati-kļi(?)t
Anamda madhurås=sama-gitaya) || Tara-chakr-avja(bja)[') shand-Avrita-gaganasarash-padmini-rajahamså- -t=[t*]ailoky-aikadhipatya-sthita-Madana
mabârâja-suvbhr(bhr)-atapattrå(trâ)t [°] lâvanya-kshira-sindhôr=dyati-rajata-girêr=ddigvadhů-dantapattra- | -d=vamśaḥ Sômade
ayam yas=tribhuvana-kamal-Avâsa[°] saudhâdapêta) || Tasmach=chhriyah kula-griham bhavanań mahimnaḥ krid.
aspadam sthiti-maharddbi-gabhiratânâm [*]apanna-satva-paripålana-lavdha(bdha)-kirttir=vvamo vasba)bhuva bhuvi simdhu-nibhô
Yaddnám Pariņata-para-madalah kala[°] vån=pravitata-va (ba)hala-yaso-su-parit-aśaḥ sasadhara iva Dantidurgga-rajo
Yadu-kula-vimala-viyaty-ath=6diya['l ya | Tasyadyam npipateh pitřivya ndayi ári-vira-simhâsanam Mêrôḥ śrimgam=
iv=adhiruhya ravi-vach=Chhri[°] Kpishọa-rajastataḥ I dhvast-ôdři(dri)kta-Chalukya-vamsa-timiraḥ prithvibhritân
mastakê nyast-attah sakalar [] jagat=pravitatais=t&jobhir-akramtavan | Tasmad=Gôvinda-rajô=bhůd-indu-vimva-silâtale
yasy-arie [") plosha-dhūmrô=rkah prasastir=iva laksh[y*]atê | Tasy=kbhavad=bhuvana-pålana
vira-va(bu)ddhir=uddhůta-Sattru(tru)-kula-samtatir-Iddhatējah [") rajeAnuj Nirapam-Apara-nâmadhêyê yan-mudray=Amvu(bu)dhir-api prathitaḥ sa
mudraḥ | Tad=an Jagattungô=jani pari [") hřita-nija-sakala-madal. Abhôgah gata-yauvana-vanitâjana-kucha-sadrish yasya vairi
npipa|| Tasmach=ch=AAncient Geography of India, pp. 480 f. But see Ind. Gojjiga who is mentioned by the poet Pampa or Hampa Ant. Vol. III, p. 62; and conf. Wilson, Vish -pur. in the Prasasti of his Vikramdrjunavijaya or Pampa(Hail's ed.) VOL. II, pp. 184, 170; J. R. AR. Soc. N. S. Bharata, see Mr. Rice, in the Jour. R. As. Soc., N. 8., Vol. VI, PP. 2884. ; Raja Tarangini, Tom. IV, p. 421; Vol. XIV. pp. 19 1. ;-also Dynasties of the Kanars Mahabhar. II, 1879.-Ed.
Districte, p. 37, note 1. Archaol. Surt. of Ind. Vol. IV. pp. T., 104, and 10 Conf. 1. 36 of the present inscription.
11 The predecessor of Bhims II. He would soom, therefore, to be the (Gajjiga or)
therefore, to be the (Gajjigs or) 1 From the original plates.
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