Annual Reports

INTRODUCTION

the setting up of the memorial stélé by her husband out of affection for her. His name, however, is lost. Palaeographically the epigraphy may be assigned to the 5th-6th century A.C. This is a rare instance of commemorating the death of a lady by her husband and the exquisite figures carved on the stone give an idea of the excellence which the sculptor’s art had reached at this early period in the Deccan region. The epigraph has since been published in Epigraphia Indica, Vol. XXVIII, pp. 129 ff.

  At Byāgavāḍi in the Hangal taluk, Dharwar District, Bombay State, was found an inscription of the reign of Vikramāditya who may be identified with Vikramāditya II (733-44 A.C.) of the early Chālukya house of Bādāmi (No. 78). The epigraph is much damaged and seems to record the remission of a certain cess.

  An inscription of the reign of Jayasiṁha Jagadēkamalla I of the Western Chālukya family of Kalyāṇa was found at Uphuṇasi in the Hangal taluk, Dharwar District (No. 128). It is dated Śaka 950, Vibhava, Pausha śu. 5, Monday Uttarāyaṇa-saṁkrānti, corresponding to 1028 A.C., December 23. The epigraph registers a landgrant made to a temple by Kundabbarasi who was associated in the administration with her husband Mahāmaṇḍalēśvara Kundarāja. This Kundarāja, described as the ‘ son ’ of Irivabeḍaṅgadēva, was governing the province of Baṅavāse-12000 extending to the limits of Payve-nāḍu. This officer who is also known as Kundarasa and Kundamarasa figures, in like manner, in a few more inscriptions of the period and he is generally taken to be the son of the emperor Irivabeḍaṅga Satyāśraya, through not specifically mentioned as such in the genealogical account of the Chālukya dynasty. Kundabbarasi appears to be another wife of the chief ; for it is already known that he had a wife named Jōgabbe (A. S. I. An. Rep., 1929-30, p. 173).

   A composite inscription in Nāgarī characters and Sanskrit language was found at Halsi in the Khānāpur taluk of the Belgaum District, Bombay State (No. 72). The earlier grant registers a gift of the village Sindavaḷḷi situated in the Kālagiri kampaṇa of Palasīdēśa for the worship, etc., in the temple of god Narasiṁha founded at Palasī by Matayōgi. The donor was king Śivachitta Paramardi, son of Jayakēśin II of the Kadamba family of Goa. The epigraph is dated the 23rd regnal year corresponding to the Kali year 4270, Virōdhin Āshāḍha amāvāsyā, Thursday, Dakshiṇāyana-saṁkrānti, which is equal to 1169 A.C., June 26. The later record is dated two years later in the 25th year of the reign of the same prince. It states that Vishṇuchitta, younger brother of the king, made a gift of certain specified fields and rows of houses in the village Bhalikā for worship, etc., of the same god. These inscriptions have been published, though imperfectly, in JBBRAS, Vol. IX, pp. 278 ff.

  From Methī, Dhulia District, Bombay State, comes an inscription (No. 137) recounting the genealogy of the Yādava kings of Dēvagiri. It is composed in Sanskrit verse, the script being Nāgarī. It introduces Kṛishṇa after mentioning Siṅghaṇa and Jaitrapāla II. The date of the record is Śaka 1176, Ānanda (1254 A.C.). The object of the record is the endowment of the village Kurukavāṭaka by the king. Half of the income derived from the village was to be utilised for conducting the worship, offerings, etc., of god Bhadrahari and the other half was assigned to the Brāhmaṇas. The record has since been published in Epigraphia Indica, Vol. XXVIII, pp. 312 ff.

   In the temple of Nāgēśa in the Goa territory was copied an inscription written in the Nāgarī script and Marāṭhī language (No. 194). It belongs to the reign of the Vijayanagara king Devarāya I nad states that his provincial officer Naṁjaṁṇa Gōsāvi was administering the region from his headquarters at Gōvā. The epigraph is dated Śaka 1335, Vijaya, Pushya ba. 30, ardhōdaya-puṇyakāla, Sunday, corresponding to 1414 A.C., January 21. The record enumerates the details of the provision made through the agency of Māi Śēṇavai for the conduct of various rituals to the deities Nāganātha and Mahālakshmī. This provincial officer whose Kannaḍa name is incidentally noteworthy was not known previously.

   In the States of West Bengal, Bihar and Orissa were copied a number of inscriptions. Of these a few found at Jājpur and its vicinity may be noticed. One of them discovered amidst the ruins of the Haṁsēśvara temple at Śiva