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māndalikas, Kalneledevar received homage from all the world, and that of two kinds of tirthas, namely, stationary and moving; Gommatadeva was the stationary tirtha and Kalneledevar the moving tirtha. The writer of the epitaph was Beldeva and the engraver Mallacari. The date of the epitaph may be about 910. From EC IV, Yd.28 at the same village, we learn that, Elacarya was the disciple of Śrīdharadeva and belonged to Desiga-gana and Pustaka-gaccha. A Kalnele Ramacandradeva is mentioned in a later inscription, namely, EC V, Ag.96 of 1095; but he was of the Surastha-gana."
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Following is the transcribed text of the concerned inscription in Kannada found at Chikka Hanasoge, Yedatore taluk, Mysore District:
No.84
On a beam of the Gadde Basava temple to the south of the village Chikka Hansoge: Eastern Face
Balo kaluri men viyudvasakarum Kandarpparupa-probhā jālāmkṛtarge yunnati-viduram Bhismaram saddaya
Bhūlokodara-dāni yuddhata dhanummlen nekulam nettanita Elacaryya-munindraradar adarim dascarya merum jagam
ondu tingal panamam bhāvisi samādhi-maranadinda māydu nontu sadgatige sandar Astopavasade Kalneleyadevar damma gurugal Elacaryya-devarge parokṣa-vinaya nisidhigeyam nirisidar Western Face
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Ereyasamudra-vestita-dharā-talamam pratipālisuttum
itta Erega-mahari-mandalikarim besakeyye vilasayolgcim mereva karūranenisalaliporī sthitas andhyar indu vand Erega samantu Kalneleya-devara pada- payoruhamgalol sthāvara-jangama-līrthaṁ
bhavisi peldāgal orade Gommatadevar
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