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inscription on the rocky side of Candramabandi or Vanţikola in the same place, records the death of Sarvanandi, the disciple of Ekkacațțugada Bhatāra in Saka 803 (A.D. 881).2 To this period (the ninth century) may be assigned the death of Sukumārasena muni on the hill of Kopaņa (Kopaņādri), mentioned by Cāmunda Rāya in his Cāmundarāya Purāņa.2
When we come to the tenth century A.D., we find Kopaņapura the seat of a branch of the Silahāras. It remained so till the thirteenth century A.D. From the inscriptions discovered at Cinnamalți and Bankūr in the Gulbarga district and in Salotgi and Muttagi in the Bijapur district, we learn that the Seļaļas or Silahāras of this branch styled themselves Kopanapuravarādhiśvara and Jimūtavāhanānvaya.3
The eleventh century A.D. saw Kopana becoming still more conspicuous. This was because in addition to its having been a holy place, it was the seat of a great battle. Some pilgrims from éri Kopaņa tirtha visited Sravana Belgola in about A...
1. Desai, K. H. R. II, p. 13. A Sarbanandi, the disciple of Paraviyaguru of Cikūr, is mentioned in a stone record assigned to about A.D. 750 by Narasimhacarya. E. C. II 36, p. 8.
2. This was first pointed out by Rice, Karnāțaka Sabdēnuśāsana, Intr. p. 15, nos. (1) and (2). Then Narasimhacarya referred to it quoting the passage in Kavicarite, I. p. 48, n. (1) Mr. N. S. Rajapurohit also has come across this passage, and has added to it notices in Ajita Purāņa. So we are informed about Mr. Rajapurohit by Charlu, Kannada Ins., p. 14. For another inscription assigned to the tenth century A.D. mentioning the guru Jatāsinganandi and his disciple Cavayya, see Charlu, ibid, p. 8.
3. Only one inscription hailing from Salotgi was noticed by earlier scholars, the others were discovered by Mr. Desai. KielhornSastri, E. I. IV, p. 59; Desai, K. H. R. II, no. 1, p. 48; Charlu, ibid., p. 2. MJ. 7
