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APRIL, 1991
and expired by samadhi and that aṣṭopavasa(da) (one who fasts for eight days) Kalneledevar set up the nisidhige or tomb-stone for his Guru Elācārya. Then follow two verses in praise of Kalneledevar stating that when Ereya was ruling the sea-girt earth, receiving homage from the great māṇḍalikas, Kalneledevar received homage from all the world, and that of two kinds of tirthas, namely, stationary and moving, Gommatadeva was the stationary tirtha and Kalneledevar the moving tirtha. The writer of the epitaph was Beldeva and the engraver Mallăcări. The date of the epitaph may be about 910. From EC IV, Yd.28 at the same village, we learn that, Eläcarya was the disciple of Sridharadeva and belonged to Desiga-gana and Pustaka-gaccha. A Kalnele Ramacandradeva is mentioned in a later inscription, namely, EC V, Ag.96 of 1095; but he was of the Surastha-gana.11
Following is the transcribed text of the concerned inscription in Kannada found at Chikka Hanasoge, Yeḍatore taluk, Mysore District:
Eastern Face
On a beam of the Gadde Basava temple to the south of the village Chikka Hanseoge:
No. 84
balo kaluri mon viyudvaśakarum kandarpparūpa-probha jäläṁkṛtaräge yunnati-vidūraṁ bhişmaram saddayǎ
bhülokodara-dani yuddhata dhanum non nekulam neṭṭanita elācāryya-munindraradar adariṁ dāścarya merum jagam
Western Face
149
ondu tingal panamaṁ bhāvisi samādhi-maraṇadinda maydu nontu sadgatige sandar astopavasade kalneleyadevar damma gurugal elacaryya-devargge parokṣa-vinaya nisidhigeyam nirisidar
ereyasamudra-veșțita-dhara-talamam pratipalisuttum
itta eṛega-mahari-maṇḍalikarim besakeyye vilāsayolgeim
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11 Archaeological Survey of Mysore, Annual Report for 1914, (1914/92), Ed. R. Narasimhachar.
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