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JAINA EPIGRAPHS : PART III 5 Anavarata-sõstra-dāna-pravimala-chăritra-jaladharaiś = chitram [*]
6 durita-nidāgha-vighātam kuryyāt-śrī (ch-chhri)-Sarvvanandindraḥ 11 . Maṁgaļam [*]
TRANSLATION Lines 1-4. Hail! In the glorious Saka year, eight hundred and three, the illustrious teacher Sarvanandi Bhatāra, disciple of ĒkachattugadaBhatāra, of the Kundakundu lineage, having stayed here and graciously imparted the teachings of the holy doctrine to the residents of the town and after practising austerities for a considerable time, attained final emancipation by the vow of Saṁnyusana.
Lines 5-6. May this Indra, the illustrious sage Sarvanandi, destroy in a miraculous manner the heat of summer, namely, the sinful actions, by means of the clouds which are his immaculate practices, intensely purified by the incessant teaching of the holy scriptures! May it be auspicious!
INSCRIPTION NO. 20
(Found on a Hill-top at Kopbal) This inscription was discovered on the top of a hill in the mountain range near Kopbal. This hill is popularly known as Pallakki Guņậu or Palanquin Boulder on account of a boulder shaped like a palanquin surmounting it. It was on this same rock and by the side of the present inscription that a Minor Rock Edict of Asoka was discovered. Two foot-narks are carved out on the same rock near the present epigraph.
The epigraph consists of only two lines of writing. It is incised in Kannada script. The language of the record is Kannada. The engraver does not seem to have had proper training, since he has betrayed his ignorance by committing mistakes even in the few syllables of this brief record. The akshara ta does not bear traces of length and so it is better to read it as such though wrongly for tā. The inscription states that the foot ( = feet), that is to say, the foot-marks of the teacher Jaţā-Singanandi were o out by Chāvayya. It is quite plain that the foot-marks referred to in the record are those found near the inscription noticed above.
The epigraph is not dated. The only means by which we can assign a date to it, though approximately, is the evidence of palaeo
graphy. On this ground we can place the inscription roughly in the · 10th century A. D.
It is a common practice in this country to preserve the memory of the revered personages, particularly the spiritual teachers, in the form of their foot-marks. These figures are assumed to represent the sacred feet of those worthies and are worshipped as such by their
1 Hyd. Arch. Series, No. 10.
