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(69) He was succeeded in the year 1475 A. Vikr. by Sri-Siddha-Bari, who was full of good qualities. The feast of his installation was celebrated in the town (pattana) of Anahalla. pura by his patron (agraha, but spelt ágriha), the Sah Jhâmbânimba of the Chôravêdiyâ gôtra.
(70) In the year 1498 A. Vikr, he was succeeded by Sri-Kakka-Sari, and the feast of his installation was celebrated in Chitrakata (Chitor) by the Sah SAranga of the Chôravêdiya gôtra and the Râjâ of Sônâpar. He it was who in the year 1444 procured the prohibition of all slaughter (amári')46 in (the province of) Kachha, who converted to Jainism the Jam SriVirabhadra, from whom came forth ambrosial streams of Sanskrit and Prakrit compositions, in which he deeply dived into all sciences (édstra), who was equal to Vâchaspati in elegance of speech, who was accomplished and fervent in the exercise of all arts, who was very weighty through his knowledge of the Law (dharma), and who was foremost in the possession of all good qualities."
(71) In the year 1528 A. Vikr. the installation of his successor Sri-Devagupta-Suri was celebrated with great pomp by his patron the prime minister Jayanta, the son (átmaja) of the prime-minister (mantrísvara) Sahala of the Srêshți gótra. He built & palatial temple (prásada) of Pârsvanatha) and a pôshadha-sáld (or a retreat for keeping the pôshadha fasts), and made a pilgrimage to Satrunjaya. He also appointed five readers (pathaka), whose names are the following: 1, Sri-Dhanasagara-Upådhyâya ; 48 2, Sri-Dêvakallola; 3, Upadhyâya-Padmatilaka; 4, Upadhyâya-Hamsaraja; 5, Upadhyâya-Matisagara.
(72) He was succeeded by Sri-Siddha-sari, the fill of good qualities. The feast of his installation was celebrated, in the year 1565 A. Vikr., in Medinipur (Midnapur), by the prime-minister Lolâgara, to the son (átmaja) of the prime minister Dasaratha, of the Srêshti gôtra.
(73) He was succeeded by Sri-Kakka-sari, who became the head of the gachchha (gachchhadhipa) in the year 1595 A. Vikr., in Yodhapura (Jodhpur). The feast of his installation was celebrated in Jodhpur by the prime-minister Dharma Simba, the son of the minister Jaga (mantri Jaga), of the Srðshți gôtra.
(74) He was succeeded by Sri-Devagupta-sari, whose feast of installation was celebrated in the year 1631 A. Vikr., by his patron, the minister Deda, the son (putra) of the minister Sabasa Vira, of the 'Srêshti gotra.
(75) He was succeeded by Srl-Siddha-Sari, on the 13th day of the bright half of the month Chaitra in the year 1655. The feast of his. installation was celebrated, with great pomp, in Vikramapur (Bikrampur) by the greatest of ministers, the prime-minister (mantrisvara mantri-mahamantri) Vákura Simba, of the Sréshţi gôtra, the most competent administrator of the kingdom, known throughout the whole world as the noblest (lit. mount Meru) and most brilliant (lit. head-jewel) of ministers.
SANSKRIT AND OLD-KANARESE INSCRIPTIONS.
BY J. F. FLEET, Bo.C.8., M.R.A.S., C.1.E. No. 189. - BHOJ COPPER-PLATE GRANT OF THE RATTA MAHANANDALESVARA KARTAVIRTA IV.
SAKA-SAMVAT 1131. This inscription has been incidentally noticed by me in my Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts, page 83 ; but it is now published for the first time. I edit it from the original plates, which I obtained for examination, in 1879, from Sivagauda Bin Satyagauda, a member of the Patils' family of Bhoj, which is a village about nine miles north-west of Chỉkôdi, the chief town of the Chikodi Taluka or Sub-Division of the Belgaum District, Bombay Presidency. The village is entered in the Indian Atlas, Sheet No. 40; Lat. 16° 33', Long. 74° 30.
4. On this, hoe footnote 884 in my edition of the Updaagadaado. 47 In the original these epithets are made to rhyme. ** On upddhydya see the introductory remarks * Original, Lolagarra. Perbape, however, it is a clerical error for Lovagrahaya, 'by his patron Lola.'
