Jaina Corpus of Koppala Inscriptions X rayed

Author(s): Nagarajaiah Hampa
Publisher: Ankita Pustak

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Theme and aim of the epigraphs / 23
A campakamāla vṛtta of K.43 [undated, but last decades of eleventh cent.] lines between 15 and 23, is found.
SPECIAL FEATURES 'B'
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a. in the colophon, antima prasasti of the Dhavalā Tikā (C.E. 1113). manuscript.
b. E.C. II (R) SB. 484 (351). C.E. 1119. p. 304 lines: 16-21
c. ibid, SB. 135 (117) C.E. 1123. p. 81. lines: 88-92.
A Mattebhavikriḍita vṛtta verse of K. 15 dated 30-7-1028 (Śaka. 950), which the author of the inscription has composed (lines: 10 to 16), is repeated in a later inscription of Soratur (Gadag dt) [S/I. xi-i. No. 111. C.E. 1071. p. 109, lines: 17 to 19].
A Śardūlavikriḍita vṛtta verse of K. 16, undated but of the period of later 10th cent. (lines: 1 to 8), is repeated in later charters of K. 52 (C.E. 1050, p. 133. lines: 1-3), and K. 62. (C.E. 1031, pp 150-51, lines: 13-17). Above all, in the context of Jaina canonical tradition, this quotation has a unique place. The very verse is verbatem repeated in the Dhavalätika final prasati portion, colophon, copied in the year C.E. 1113. This verse is once again used in an inscription of C.E. 1099 of Huṇasi-Haḍagali, which was a seat of Jaina settlement [KJS: 1996: p. 230].
Some general remarks regarding the nature of these char
Many of these new lithic records contain specific date in the regnal year, facilitating the fixation of the year, and thus they are of immense value to history.
Some are badly damaged; K.10, K. 14, K.20, K.25, K.58.
Some suffer from defective vocabulary and diction, because of the broken letters; K. 34, K. 36, K. 55, K. 63, K. 66.
None of the epigraphs contain the usual imprecatory lines. Invocatory verses/lines are found in some charters; K. 2, K.10, K. 11, K. 23, K. 33, K. 47; but mostly it is absent.