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TRANSLATION Hail! This image of Pañchaparamēshthi was prepared on the occasion of the celebration of the vows of Siddhachakra and Srutapanchami, by Dēvaņa, son of Achaņņa, the higly born Sēnabõva (local revenue official) of the illustrious capital towa Erambarage, and a lay disciple of the divine Mādhavachandra, a constituent of the illustrious Mūla Samgha, Dēsiya gaña, Pustaka gachchlia and Ingalēśvara baļi (section). May it be auspicious !
INSCRIPTION No. 51 (Found on the Pedestal of an Image at Yalbargi) This inscription was discovered on the pedestal of a mutilated stone image at Yalbargi. The pedestal was lying on the platform adjoining the gate of and outside the ginning factory. The upper portion of the image above the pedestal except for the feet, was lost and could not be traced. It must have been a small image as could be judged from the reinnant of the pedestal.
The epigraph too was not in a good state of preservation; and it was damaged and worn out in many places. It was engraved in small round characters. The alphabet and the language are Kannada. The record is not dated, but might be ascribed approximately to the 12th century A. D. on palaeographical considerations. The purpose of the document seems to be to record the erection of the double-shrined temple in honour of Pār'svanātha Tirthakara and dedication of the present image to the same by the wife of Dēvaņārya, a high official of the principality of the Sinda chiefs.
Dēvaņārya is stated to have been the chief minister (Mahāpradhāna) and Tantrādhishthāyaka of the illustrious Mahāmaņdalēśvara (feudatory ruler) Vira Vikramāditya. The designation Tantrādhishthāyaka seems to denote the office of the superintendent of political affairs. It is easy to identify Vira Vikramāditya with the feudatory prince of the Sinda house bearing the name : for we know that Yalbargi was the headquarters of the princes of the Sinda family and a prince named Vikramāditya ruled here. Further details in regard to this prince are furnished by other epigraphs. He was son of Chāmunda II. He figures with his brother Bijjala as ruling the chiefdom jointly. The inscriptions containing references to him range from a. D. 1169 to 1220. On the evidence of these records we may place the present charter sometime by the end of the 12th and the beginning of the 13th century A. D. As we already know, the Sindus were the feudatories of the Western Chālukyas of Kalyāṇa and were subsequently related by the bond of matrimony with the Kalachuri house of Karnāṭaka.
1 Ep. Ind., Vol. XX, p. 114.
