| No. |
Place of inscription. |
Dynasty. |
King. |
Date. |
Language and alphabet. |
Remarks. |
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BIJAPUR DISTRICT─contd.
INDI TALUK─contd. |
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| 54 |
Right face of the same slab |
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Kannaḍa |
Damaged. In characters of the 13th century A. D. Records a gift of land and house site made by Sōmayya, a devotee of Kōṭiśaṅkaradēva, to Bammayya for maintaining a charity picotta (dharmmēta). |
| 55 |
Fragment of slab built into the wall (outside), left of entrance into the raṅga-maṇḍapa of the same temple. |
…. |
…. |
…. |
Do. |
Do. Do. Seems to record a gift of certain incomes, land, house sites, etc., evidently for the temple. |
| 56 |
Stone fixed as arch-stone at the top of the front gate-way of the same temple. |
…. |
…. |
….year 20, …. |
Do. |
Ends of lines broken away and lost. In characters of the 13th century A. D. Contains the boundaries of the gift land of the temple. Also registers a gift of land for the temple of Pañchaliṅgadēva. |
| 57 |
Another stone fixed in the same place |
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…. |
…. |
Do. |
Contains the imprecation against the destruction of some gift. |
| 58 |
Rūgi.─Stone standing near the front wall of the temple of Hanumān (back and left sides). |
Western Chāḷukya |
Jagadēkamalla Jayasiṅghadēva ‘ruling at Ētagirinelevīḍu. |
Śaka 941, Siddhārthin, Pushya, ba. 10, Thursday, Uttarāyaṇa-saṅkrānti. |
Do. |
States that Mahāsāmanta Dhanasaṅgrahayyarasa of the Seḷara family protected (i. e. ratified), the gift of land which had been made with the permission of Ballavarasa by Mahāsāmanta Dasiavarmarasa, the governor of Eighteen agrahāras including Rūvige in Tarddavāḍi-nāḍu, to Bāḷachandra-Paṇḍita for the temple of Nagarēśvaradēva at Āneya-Rūvige. |
| 59 |
Same stone (front and right sides) |
Do. |
Ayyaṇadēva’s brother (not specified). |
Śaka 936 Ānanda, Phālguṇa, amāvāsyā, Sunday, saṅkrānti. |
Do. |
Records a gift of land and oil-press made by Mahāsāmanta Dēvaṇarasa, a servant of Vasudhaikamalladēva, to the temple of Nagarēśvaradēva. |
| 60 |
Same stone |
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…. |
…. |
Do. |
Incomplete. In smaller characters than the above. Mentions the Five-hundred (community) headed by the Ūroḍeya Āchimayya, Ūroḍeya Damana-Bhaṭṭa-Sōmayāji and Ūroḍeya Annamayya. |
| 61 |
Left side of the Elephant stone (ānekallu) set up in the same place. |
Rāshṭrakūṭa |
Amōghavarsha |
Śaka 863 (in words and figures). |
Sanskrit in Nāgarī |
Seriously damaged and mutilated. Seems to record a gift of land. |
| 62 |
Another stone leaning against the front wall of the same temple (front side). |
Western Chāḷukya |
Bhuvanaikamalladēva |
(1) Śaka 991, Ki[laka], amāvāsye, Sunday, Dakshiṇāyana-saṅkramaṇa. (2) Śaka 967, Pārthiva, Pushya, śu. 5, Sunday, Uttarāyaṇa-saṅkrānti. |
Kannaḍa |
Seriously damaged. In characters of the 11th century A. D. Seems to record a gift of certain money incomes made by Mādhavayya-Nāyaka with the permission of the king for the benefit of the temple of Nakharēśvara at Rūvige. Below this is another record with the second date, which registers a gift of oil made by the Fifty Telliga tenants for a lamp in the temple of Kēdāradēva of the place. Both are probably copies of earlier records. |
