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South Indian Inscriptions

 
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Do. Bronze image from the big temple, Surat.

 

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Śaka … Tāraṇa, Pushya śu. 5, Wednesday.

 

Kannaḍa

Records the installation of the Ratna-traya and ChavvisaTīrthaṅkaras. The name of the donor and other details are damaged. In late characters.

 

 

37

Do. Office of the Director of Archaeology. Bronze incense burner. From Akoṭā (Aṅkōṭṭaka). Photograph from Director of Archaeology, Baroda.

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Kannaḍa (?)

Indifferently written. Seems to record the gift of the object to a temple.

 

38

Do. Inscribed potsherd. From Amreli. Estampage from the same.

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Brāhmī

Reads Saṁ 300 40 4 Māgha-yu(śu)kla 2. In characters of about the 3rd century A.D.

 

39

Do. Base of a bronze image. From Akoṭā. Photographs from the same. No. 1.

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Sanskrit, Southern Alphabet.

 

Reads : Dēvadharmō=yaṁ Nivṛiti-kulē Jinabhadra-vāchanāchāryasya, In characters of about the 8th or 9th century.

 

 

40

Do. No. 2

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Do.

Reads : 1 Ninnaka-Pārikshi-sutayā | Śaraṇi2 kayā dēvadharmō=yan. || Do.

41 Do. No. 3 …. ….

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Do.

Reads : 1 Śrī Drōṇāchāryyaiḥ ni-2 vṛitti-kulē kāritā ||     Do.

42 Do. No. 4 …. …. …. Do. Mentions Vidyādhara. Do.
43 Do. No. 5 …. …. …. Do.

Reads : Vidyādhara-kulikasya. Do.

44

Do. No. 6

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Do.

Reads : Śrī-Chaṁdra-kulē Śrī-Mōdha-gachchē Giggata-śrāvakasya ||             Do.

45 Do. No. 7 …. …. …. Do.

Reads : … dharaku … Do.

46 Do. No. 8 …. …. …. Do. Reads : Devadha[r]mō=yam Jivatasāmi … kulikasya Nāgisvariśrāvikayā [|| *]             Do.
47 Do. No. 9 …. …. …. Do.

Reads : Aṇāhula-dēvadharmō=yaṁ. Do.

48 Do. No. 10 …. …. …. Do. Reads : 1 Nivṛiti-kuḷē Jinabhadra-vā2 chanāchāryyasya ||   Do.
 

BELGAUM DISTRICT CHIKODI TALUK

         
49

Yēḍūr.─Vīrabhadrēśvara temple. Slab fixed into the wall of the central maṇḍapa.

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Śaka 1752, Vikṛiti, Phālguna śu. 5, T h u r s d a y= 1831 A.D., February 17.

Nāgarī, Marāṭhī

States that the construction of the sabhā-maṇḍapa of the Vīrabhadrēśvara temple was commenced by Aṇṇāji Narasiṁha Dēśapāṇḍe, a resident of Aṅkale of the Pāchhāpur paragaṇā.

 

50

Do. Slab fixed into the wall of the side maṇḍapa.

…. …. Śaka 1758, Durmukhi, Chaitra śu. 1. Do.

States that the rooms of the temple of Vīrabhadrēśvara were constructed by the above Aṇṇāji Narasiṁha Dēśapāṇḍe. was governing Kūṁḍi Three Thousand. Seems to praise the exploits of the reigning king who is said to have vanquished the Chōḷa and Pāṇḍya kings and others. Details are lost.

  GOKAK TALUK          
51

Gokak Falls.─Mahāliṅgēśvara temple. Slab set up in the temple.

Kaḷachurya ….

Śaka 1093, Vikṛiti, Māgha paurṇimā.

Kannaḍa Damaged. Registers a gift for the repairs, etc., of the temple, when Mahāmaṇḍalēśvara Kattamadēva of the Raṭṭa family.

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