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JAINIGM IN SOUTH INDIA is a great feudatory ruler and who bears the titles, Tejõrņava (ocean of valour), Pagege-balganda (tough warrior to the fue), Nuļidante-ganda (firmly true to his words), Kritayuga-galla (thief of the righteous age) and others; on the occasion of the Uttarāyana-sarkrāṁti, having laved the feet of the divine Nāganandi-pandita Bhatāra, the disciple of Vinayanandi Siddhāntada-Bhatāra, the disciple of Śrīnandi Bhatára, belonging to the Sürastha gana, alienated to the temple, with full proprietory rights,
e hundred mattars of cultivable land out of his own estate, situated in the tract of Kukkanūr Thirty.
Lines 22-26: Imprecation against the transgressors of the charity. Prayer to the future rulers of the country to preserve and maintain the charity.
INSCRIPTION NO. 47
(Found on a stone at Halgeri) This inscription was noticed on a piece of rough white stone at Halgēri, a village situated at a distance of about four miles towards the north-west of Kopbal. The stone was fixed into the platform constructed around a margoga tree near the village Chāvaļi. The stone is irregular in shape. It measures approximately 28 inches in length. The breadth at the top is about 18 inches and at the bottom about 24 inches. The contents of the inscription show that the record is only fragmentary. So the original stone must have been bigger and with the breakage and mutilation of the stone, a large portion of the docu. ment also has been irretrievably lost. Even the existing portion of the epigraph is not well preserved, some of the letters having been damaged and partly worn out.
The record consists of six lines of writing. The characters are big in size, and they are boldly and deeply carved. The script and language are both Kannada, the former being of the archaic variety of about the 7th century A. D. The inscription commences directly with the mention of the ruling king. This was Vijayāditya Satyāśraya. Next it introduces a certain officer of Kopaņa and Gutti, named Garöja. The rest of the record hereafter is lost.
It is clear that the king Vijayāditya Satyāśraya figuring here is the Western Chālukya monarch of the name who belonged to the earlier line of the house. As the epigraph refers itself to his reign it must have been brought into existence during his reigning period. The record is not specifically dated, or the date might have been lost. But we know from other sources that this king reigned from a. D. 696 to 733. This must be the broad limit of the date of the inscription. The officer Garāja mentioned above is described as the three-fold administrator' of Kopaņa and the lord of Gutti. He was holding the office of karanam which means 'a secretary'. Kopaņa which is
