Jror, 1875.] SANSKRIT AND OLD CAXABE8X rXSCttlPTI' 208 SANSKRIT AXD OLD CANAKESE DfSCBIPTIOXS, BY J- F. I-LKI1T, t;^.. Be. C. S. ( Con finned from page 181.) In connexion with the preceding Kudiiniba inscription, the notes made by me, when travel- ling through the Canarese Country as Educa- tional Inspector of the Southern Division, of inscriptions at Bank ipur, 11 and Bana- — all of them K/idamba capitals, — may usefully be inserted here. /.'■ ./ Ipur. Bai'ikapur is abont .six miles fco the S. by E. of Siggaum, the present head-quarters of the Siggaum or Baukapur Taluka of the Dli iefc. The inscriptions are all in the Fort. 1: — Leaning up against a wall to the rigjhl of the entrance to the Fort from the E. there large stone-tablet bearing an inscription of nine lines, each lino containing abont th.rry- Beren letters, in the Old Canarese dia> and language. The inscription is for the most part in hue order ; but the fourth line has been delib almost entirely obli- I and there are fissures in the tablet • would probably result in its fulling to pieces it' an attempt wore made to remov-- a safer place of custody. The emblems at the top of the tablet have bean wilful I;. but there are trad .wing:— In the centre, a lihg& ai Ot kneel- ing figuiv. the sun above it and a c/>w and rond it: and on its left, an offi- ciating priest, wirh the moon above him and • Viknunldity* II of Sir W. KUi.it : of t)r present inioriptvm nwv
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mutf his htner s iron© of tlio II. I i i adopt- cdua KMnmba title, t Tlic Kv|fi>piim of ilso Kmiiiuibu titles. t Tli.. final ' t* i l] "^T .** "} ■ Mr v. II, 11 HUM ■ix-tlio 9 molding a ricta Arc UFoally Domed in ' vim included in tbem. Tl. a figure of Basava beyond him. The inscrip- tion is dated in the Saka year 977 (a. d. •'■), being the Manmatha atnhvatsam, while the Chiilakya King Gaugapdrmanadi-Vikra- madityadfiva *, — the son of Traflftkyamalla- . the supreme lord of the city of Kuva- hilapurati the lord of Kandagirij be whose crest was an infuriated elephant, — was ruling . Ad if J Nim-ty->;x-rhrinsrmd and the Uannv/isi Twelve* thousand, and while the Great Chieftain Harikesaridfiva-, the glory ot" tin- family of the Kildamba emperor Mayuravai was governing the Uanavasi Twelve-thousand as his subordinate. The inscription proo to record the grant of some land in the .Nida- gandage Twelve, which was a kanpanaW of the Panuiigal Five-hundred, to a Jain temple, by Hank :. his wifo LachchaludOvT, the assemblage of the five religions < iof Ilaii- kiipura, the guild < jana, and "The Sixteen. "*J Ha- titles are of much the same purport as some of those of Sivauhitta in the KAdamha inxcrintion of Gal- halli and of Jayakesi III. in the Kadaml BOription of Kittftr*, and most of them are repeated in the short inscription, No. 2, of which a transcription is given below. His nam not occur in Sir W. . i lambas, and I cannot yet determine what his pin aouldbe- Nos. -2 and :>.— b'urther on in the fort there is a fine old Jain temple called Arvattnkutn- -.-.K-ttionsand is n -"JJn in line 3 of No. US work, iraftwgn the family, .kapttuun, or GApabipnrl) rtu-U' in their ire and Ilolsi i :■ ' ■!:<■ ifff. "r i' IT family was TrilrtditHiiikadikMliii, ' Or BuchttO tra-li- ,,i nan's boo;- Juin king, first llr&li-nt l tntry ; accordinir to tin.- Briih. had bomi ; 'a the like it and running away to Ahich "jyilra- ratmft brought ' «*•* *> me r them. , , II ,s,, { N... II of the present ■ • /:., naga- i • So,- pp. 29fl l XXVII, Vol X B»mb. Br. 11. At.
