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DHARWAR DISTRICT—contd.
HANGAL TALUK—contd.
Arḷēśvar—concld.

Pillar on the proper left side of the Kadaṁbēśvara temple, Second inscription.

Year 15, Khara, Chaitra śu. 5, Monday.

Kannaḍa

Registers a gift of land to the teacher Śāntivarman for offerings to the god Kaḍambēśvara at Aḷayasirivūr by Jñānasiṁgi-Gavuḍa when Mallidēva was governing  Banavase12000 and Hānuṁgal-500.

Pillar on the proper right side of the same temple.

Chālukya-Vikramakāla 61, Nala, Chaitra ba. 5, Tuesday, Mēshasaṁkrānti = 1136 A.D., March 24, Tuesday.

Do.

Registers the gift of oil seeds (eḷḷu) made for burning a perpetual lamp before god Kaḍaṁbēśvara by several seṭṭis (names specified) of the (guild of) Five-Hundred, after leaving the feet of their preceptor Gaṁgarāśi-Paṇḍita. Another gift  of oil was made on the same occasion by other seṭṭis and the Seventy-Families for the same purpose.

Front side of the makaratōraṇa of the same temple.

Chālukya-Vikramakāla 13, Vibhava, Māgha śu. 10, Monday. Irregular.

States that Rāmasiṅgi-Paṇḍita who was administering the village Aḷayasirivūr situated in Eḍevoḷal-70, installed the god Kaḍambēśvara therein. The Kadamba prince was governing Banavāsi-12000 and Pānuṁgal-500.

Same pillar

Chālukya-Vikramakāla 52, Plavaṁga Vaiśākha śu. 10, Thursday. Irregular.

Do.

Records a gift of land for offerings and repairs by Tribhu vanàsriṅgi-Paṇḍita, son (i.e., disciple) of Rāmasiṅgi-Paṇḍita who extended the Kaḍambēśvara temple making it five shrined and adding the maṇḍapa. The chief was governing Banavāsi-12000 and Hānuṁgal-500.

Baichavaḷḷi.—Hero stone (No. I) found in front of the Hanumān temple.

Year 12

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

Hero-stone (No. II) set up near the same temple.

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

Do.

Damaged. Seems to register gift of the village [Bai]chavaḷi for the local deity for the merit of the king and his parents by his subordinate Tirupatyaya who was stationed at Baṁkāpura.

Śaka 969, Sarvajit, Bhādrapada Amāvāsyā, Monday, solar eclipse=1047 A.D., September 21, Monday.

Do.

States that the dam of a tank at Baisavaḷḷi which had given way was repaired and an endowment of wet land made for its upkeep. At that time Mahāmaṇḍalēśvara Chāvuṇḍa rāya was governing Banavāsi-12000, Mahāmaṇḍalēśvara Mayūravarman of the Kadamba family was holding the fief (manneya sāmya) fo Pānuṁgal-500 included in the area and Eṛagāri held the office of Ūr-gavuṇḍu of Baisavaḷḷi. Chāvuṇḍarāya’s younger brother Barmmadēva also made a gift of siddhāya for the same purpose. Sēnabōva Dāsi mayya of Niṭṭasiṁgi wrote the record and Barmōja engraved it.

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