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DHARWAR DISTRICT─contd.
HANGAL TALUK─contd. Hirēkaṇgi─concld.

Slab set up near the debris called Śankarimaṭṭi.

Śaka 993, Virōdhikṛit, Uttarāyaṇa saṁkrānti,yaṇa saṁkrānti,Vyatīpāta, Āmāvāse, Monday= 1072 A.D., January 23.

Kannaḍa

Records the construction of the temple of Mūlasthāna-Śaṁkara-Kalidēva by Chhaṭṭikabbe-gāvuṇḍi and a gift of land to the same made by her son Chikka-gāvuṇḍa who was administering the village Piriya-Kannaga, when Mahāmaṇḍalēśvara Māvakētarasa was administering Pānuṁgal500 and Mahāmaṇḍalēśvara Parikantadēva of the Kadamba family was governing Banavāsi-12000 and Pānuṁgal-500.

Hōtanhaḷḷi.─Hero stone (No. 1) set up near the temple of Kallappa.

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Do.

Fragmentary. Seems to record the death of a person. In characters of about the 12th century.

Hero stone (No. 11) in the same place

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

Kargudari.─Stone standing on the tank near the village.

Chālukya-Vikrama year 33, Sarva dhāri, Herjjuggiya (i.e. Āśvayuja) puṇṇami, Monday= 1108 A.D., September 21.

Do.

Published in Ind. Ant., Vol. X, pp. 249 ff.

Slab standing in S. No. 80

Prabhava, Pushya śu. 1, Monday, Dakshiṇāyana (mistake for Uttarāyaṅa) saṁkramaṇa

Registers a gift of land for offerings, etc., in the temple of Vijaya-Pārśva-Jinēṁdra constructed at Karegudure by Mahāvaḍḍabyavahāri Kalliseṭṭi, when Mahāprachanḍadaṇḍanāyaka Sōvarasa was administering Hānuṁgal-500 and Maṇḍalēśa Taila of the Kadamba family was ruling over a part of the territory. The gift was entrusted to the teacher Nāgachandra Bhaṭṭāraka, pupil of Hariṇandi, disciple of Vāsupājya. These teachers were descendants of Pūjyapāda and belonged to the Sūrashtha guna and Chitrakūṭa anvaya.

Kuṇṭan-Hosaḷḷi.─Slab kept near Basavaṇṇa temple.

Damaged. Seems to record a gift of land by Nāgiseṭṭi and others to a Jaina deity. Mentions Āchaladēvī and the Kadaṁba chief Taila-maṇḍalēśa.

Slab from the bed of the tank called Huḍēdahoṇḍa, now removed to the village chāvaḍi.

Śaka 906, Tāraṇa, Paushya śu. 5,Sunday, Uttarā-yaṇa saṁkrānti= 984 A.D., November 30. The sankrānti occurred later.

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Records a gift of land presumably for the upkeep of the tank by Eragāri, Maṇiyamma and Pāḍuva Kaliyamma, when Śōbhanarasa was governing the two six-hundreds and Banavāsi-12000. Eragāri was holding the office of Nāl gāmuṇḍu of the Five-hundred villages, Karmmagara Lōkayya was in charge of Ūr-gāmuṇḍa and Pāḍuva Kaliyamma was administering the village.

Fragmentary. Mentions the authority of a feudatory of the Chellakēta family over Banavāsi and records the death of Chhaṭṭayya.

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