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BOMBAY—contd.
DHARWAR DISTRICT—concld.
KOD TALUK—concld. Raṭṭihaḷḷi—concld.

Stone (No. I) lying outside the Kadaṁbēśvara temple.

Śaka 1446, Plavaṁga, Vaiśākha.

Kannaḍa

Damaged and worn out. Seems to refer to a gift to a Brāhmaṇa of the Yaju-­śākhā.

Stone (No. II) lying in the same place

Śaka 146 [1] Sā .. .. Monday.

Do.      Seems to record a gift (details lost).

Stone (No. III) lying in the same place

Śaka 146

Do.

Do.      Mentions the Thousand of Raṭṭehaḷḷi and Raṭṭahaḷḷi-sīme.

Pillar in the mukha-maṇḍapa of the same temple, upper portion.

Śaka 1161 (current). Viḷaṁbi, Āshāḍha śu. 15, [lunar] eclipse == 1238 A. D., June 28.

Do.

Do.      Registers the gift of the toll income on eleven bullocks made into the hands of the teacher Mūrujāvi for a perpetual lamp and sandal paste to god Kaḍambēśvara, by the merchant Gubbiya Kalla who bore the title Rāya-seṭṭi.

Same pillar, lower portion

Hēmaḷaṁbi, Phālguna amāvāsye, Sunday, solar eclipse. Irregular.

Do.

Registers a gift of land, house, income from tolls etc., made into the hands of the teacher Mūrujāvi for a perpetual lamp and sandal paste to god Mallinātha, by Karaṇada Kallarasa and the members of the mercantile organisation.

Stone (No. I) kept in madhya-maṇḍapa of the same temple.

Kaḷachurya

Śaka 1097, Jaya, Jyēshṭha amāvāsye, Sunday,           solar eclipse =1174 A.D., June 2, the tithi ended at ∙33 the previous day when there was a solar eclipse.

Do.

Registers a gift of gold, a row of houses, oil-mill, etc., made into the hands of the divine Kalyāṇaśakti for the offerings to the god and repairs to the temple of Kaḍaṁbeśvara by Mahāmaṇḍalēśvara Pāṇḍyadēva and his subordinate Chauṇdarasa. Describes the Banahāsi country, its kaṁpaṇa Nāruṁbāḍa with the chief town Raṭṭahaḷḷi and the genealogy of the chiefs ruling over the latter to whose family Pāṇḍyadēva belonged. .

Stone (No. II) kept in the same place

Śaka 1160, Viḷaṁbi, Mārgaśira amā- vāsya, Monday, solar eclipse == 1238 A. D., December 8 ; the weekday was Wednesday.

Do.

Registers a gift land made into the hands of the sthānāchārya and Rājaguru Mūrujāvidēva in favour of the deities Mallēśvara and Rājēśvara installed in the vicinity of Kadambēśvara by Hoṁna Baṁmi-śeṭṭi, a subordinate of the king and a great devotee of Jaṁgama. This Baṁmi-śeṭṭi  is said to have burnt Kōḍa, Moghekoppaḷa and Dōrasamudra. He was administering the tract from his headquarters at Muḷugunda. Mūrujāvidēva belonged to the Parvatāvaḷi and Kiṭṭagāve annaya of the Kāḷāmukha sect. Also contains a description of thechiefs who belonged to the Kadamba lineage and were ad ministering the eminent town of Raṭṭapaḷḷi in Banavāse-nāḍu. Pāṇḍya and his brother Vīra-Pāṇḍya were the last of them. 

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