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Volume VII (1902-03).
14. Inscriptions on the three Jaina Colossi of Southern India. E. HULTZSCH. Study of the inscriptions engraved on the three colossal statues of Gomatešvara, at Śravana Belgola, Karkala and Yénür.
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I. Statue of Śravana Belgola.
I. Three lines, the first and the third of which are in Canara and in Canara choracters. The third line is the Tamoul translation of the first. The inscription recalls that the minister Camuṇḍaraya had the statue created and that Gangaraja had the neighbouring sanctuaries constructed.
II. Two lines in Marathi written in Nagari characters. The contents are the same as those of the previous inscription.
Statue of Karkája.
I. Inscription of 15 lines in Sanskrit. Canara characters. Recalls the erection of the statue, in Śaka 1353-1432 A. D. by Vira Pandya or Pandyaraya, son of Bhairavendra.
II. Inscription analogous to the precedent, but in Canara in Canara characters, and in Sanskrit in Nägari characters.
III. Canara language and alphabet. The inscription recalls the erection of pillar, by Vira Pandya, in Saka 1338-1436 A, D.
III. Statue of Yenür
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Sanskrit verse in Canara characters. Erection of the statue in Śaka 15251604 A.D. by Timmaraja, of the family of Camunda.
II. Two Canara verse in Canara characters. Inscriptions analogous to the precedent. All these inscriptions have been translated and the text of them is given. Besides, three plates out of text represent the colossal statues and give the facsimile of the two inscriptions, of Sravana Belgola.
15. Two Jaina inscriptions of Irugappa. F. HULTZSCH.
A. Inscription in Tamoul and in grantha characters, engraved in the temple of Vardhamana at Tirupparuttikkunru near Conjeeveram. It recalls that the minister Irugappa made gift of a village to this temple. The dates corresponds to 1382 A. D.
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