tendent, Department of Archaeology, Western Circle.

DHARWAR DISTRICT BANKAPUR TALUK

Savaṇūr.─Dyāmavva temple. Slab standing near the temple.

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Kannaḍa

Very much damaged and worn out. In characters of about the 12th century.

Uḍachavva temple.  Slab set up near the temple.

Chālukya of Kalyāṇa.

Bhuvanaikamalla

….Uttarāyaṇa saṁkrānti.

Do.

Damaged. Contains praise of the king’s subordinate Hēri sandhivigrahi Daṇḍanāyaka Kēsimayya and Barmadēva. Mentions the Mahājanas headed by the Ūroḍeya of the agrahāra of Savaṇūru.

Hanumān temple. Nishidhi stone set up near the temple.

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Viśvāvasu, Śuchimāsa ba. 8, Monday.

Do.

Damaged. Seems to record the death of the Jaina teacher Maladhāri by saṁnyasana. In characters of about the 12th century.

Prānt office. Slab built into a wall

Adil Shāhī of Bijāpur.

Śaka 1520, Viḷambi, Kārttika śu. 7.

Do.

Records the sinking of a well near the village Nīlige by Khāneājam Khursitakhāna, the chief of Baṅkāpur fort, for the merit of the king.

Another slab built into the same wall

Marāṭhī, Nāgarī

Do.

Slab fixed inside the house of Guḍisāgara Gauḍa.

Hijrī 1273, Rajjab 2, Śaka 1779, Piṅgaḷa, Chaitra śu. 1, T  h  u  r  s  d  a  y= 1857 A.D., March 26.

Records certain privileges including gift of land, granted by the Nawab in favour of Chelapā Guḍisāgara for having erected new houses and populated the market area called Chyāraśembē Bājār in the  town of Savanūr, which was formerly deserted.

Slab lying on the tank bund outside the village.

Chālukya of Kalyāṇa.

Chālukya-V i krama year 5, Raudri, Chaitra, Sunday.

Damaged. Registers a gift of land made into the hands of the two hundred Mahājanas of the agrahāra of Savaṇūr headed by Daṇḍanāyaka Kēsimayya, possibly by the Paṭṭa ṇādhipati of rājadhāni Baṅkāpura, when Mahāpradhāna Hērisandhivigrahi Daṇḍanāyaka (name lost), a faithful warrior (Pēshaṇa-Hanumān) of Vīra-Noḷaṁba-Pallava Permānaḍi, was governing the agrahāra of Savaṇūr, Sāntaḷige Thousand and Nāgarakhaṇḍa-Seventy which comprised a kampaṇa of Banavāsi-nāḍu. Pergaḍe Siṁgimayya wrote the record with chalk on the stone and Rēvavōja incised it.

Slab buried near the Nawab’s bungalow outside the village.

Chālukya-Vikrama year 12, Prabhava, Jyēshṭha paurṇimā =1087 A.D., May 20.

Fragmentary. States that the two hundred Mahājanas of the agrahāra of Savaṇūr conferred together and selected Madhusūdana or Maddiga of the Pārāśara gōtra and Vāji vaṁśa, as the protector  of the frontier town of Savaṇūr.

Slabs fixed at the top of the main gateway of the fort.

Stone kept in the garden of the Nawab’s bungalow outside the village.

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Ibid., No. 106.

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