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BOMBAY-KARNATAKA INSCRIPTIONS VOLUME XI - Part I WESTERN CHALUKYAS Irivabodanga Satyasraya | Ahavamalla Taila II | Tribhuvanamalla Vikramaditya V Jagadekamalla Jayasimha II | Trailokyamalla Somesvara I | Bhuvanaikamalla Somesvara II No. 48 (B.K. No. 10 of 1926-27) Gadag, Gadag Taluk, Dharwar District On A Slab Built Into The Prakara Of The Trikuttesvara Temple The inscription belongs to the reign of Irivabedengadeva
and records a grant of land at Malteyavada in Purigere-nadu made
by his vassal Mahasamanta Sobhanarasa, who possessed the
âfive great soundsâ. He
is described as a âbee at the lotus feet of Ahavamalladevaâ and
is stated to have been governing over the Belvola Three-Hundred,
Purigere Three-Hundred, Kunduru Five-Hundred and Kukkanuru Thirty divisions.
The great was made as vidyadana to Kalajnani
Vakkhani-Jiya, the disciple of Koppina-Vakkahani-Jiya, who was the
student (vidya-sishya) of Puliya-Pandita, of the temple of
Svayambhudeva at Kardugu, i.e., the modern Gadag,
which was an agrahara in the Belvola-nadu.
The inscription is dated Saka 924, Suhakrit, Chaitra,
suddha 5, Sunday, which corresponds to A.D. 1002, March 22,
Sunday. Mahasamnta Sobhanarasa has been noticed in Nos. 45 ad 47 above. No. 49 (B.K. No. 75 of 1929-30) Tumbigi, Muddebihal Taluk, Bijapur District On A Broken Stone Lying In The Village
Chavadi The inscription belongs to the reign of Akalankacharita Irivabedanga Satyasraya and registers gifts of land made to certain local religious institutions, by the Kingâs officer Setti Brahmayya who was administering Tumbagi, an agrahara in Pagalatti Three Hundred and by a lady named Aychakabbe, with rules for their management. The record is dated in Saka 926, Krodhin,
Ashadha, amavasya, solar eclipse.
The date corresponds to Thursday, July 20, A.D. 1004.
No. 50 (B.K. No. 62 of 1926-27) Yalli-Sirur, Gadag Taluk, Dharwar District On A Slab Set Up Near The Village Chavadi The record belongs to the reign Irivabedanga Satyasraya, who is stated to have been halting at a place called Sitipstbsys (Sriparvata), at the time of the grant. It mentions the chief Mahasamanta Sobhanarasa (already referred to) with the usual epithets: âkannana-banta,â âKataka-prakaraâ and âa beet at the lotus feet of Ahavamalladeva.â He is stated to have been governing over the Huligere Three Hundred, Beluvala Three Hundred and Halasige Twelve Thousand (divisions). While his-subordinate Lenka Benayya was administering the toll-revenue (sunka) of Sirivura, Soratavura Sabbi . . (probably Sabbi Thirty) and the Two Six Hundred (divisions), Sobhanarasa gave, at the request of the Eight Gavundas and the Sixty Tenants of Sirivura, six mattar of land to Revabbe-Goravi of the temple of Mulasthana. This charter which is dated Saka 926, Krodhin, Paushya, amavasya, Sunday, Surya-grahna, having been broken, the gift was renewed later in the thirteenth year of the reign of king Sarvajna-chakravartin Bhuvarlokamalla (mistake for Bhulokamalla i.e., Somesvara III) in Kalayautkta, on Paushya, ba. 7, Sunday, vyatipata, Uttarayana-sankramana, by the Mahapradhana, Senadhipati, Pattalakarana, Dandayada-Heggade and Dandanayaka, Mahadevayya, at the request of his brother-in-law Padmarasa who was the Heggade of Sripura and a Pradhana and Kannada-sandhivigrahi, and at the request of certain Gavundas and the Sixty Tenants of Muluvalageri. This later pratisasna was given to Amritarasi-Pandita, the then acharya of the Mulasthana temple. The first of the dates agrees with Sunday (mistake
for Saturday), January 13, A.D. 1005 and the second correctly
corresponds to A.D. 1133, December 25, Sunday. No. 51 (B.K. No. 63 of 1926-27) Yali-Sirur, Gadag Taluk, Dharwar District On A Hero-Stone Set Up Near The Village
Chavadi This inscription, which is damaged, records,
the death of a hero named Lenka Keta, who fell in a battle at
the fort of Unukallu (the modern Unkal) where he fought at
the command of Sattiga (probably king Irivabedanga
Satyasraya). The date, Saka 9[2]7, Visvavasu, Phalguna,
amavasya, Sunday (according to the Ephemeris, mistake for
Saturday) corresponds to A.D. 1006, March 2, Saturday.
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