North Indian Inscriptions

NALLUR GRANT OF HARIHARA II.

......The date of the death of Harihara II. is not known, but the latest date yet discovered of this king is Śaka-Saṁvat 1321 ( = A.D. 1399), the date of the present grant and of the Makaravaḷḷi inscription.¹ His principal officials were :—

......1. Sâyaṇa, who, as will be seen below, was the minister of Harihara II. about the beginning of his reign.² According to a Banawâsi inscription, dated Śaka-Saṁvat 1290 ( = A.D. 1368), Sâyaṇa’s elder brother, Mâdhava, was ruling the Banavase Twelve-thousand under Bukka I.³

......2. Iruga or Irugapa-daṇḍanâtha, the son of Chaicha, who was the minister of Bukkarâya. Iruga built a Jaina temple at Vijayanagara.⁴ He is also referred to in an inscription at Śravaṇa-Beḷgoḷa,⁵ and in an unpublished inscription at Tirupparuttikkunram6 near Conjeeveram. In the second he is called “the best of Jainas” (Jainôttaman). He had also some literary tastes, for he composed the Nânârtharatnamâlâ.⁷

......3. Muddaya-daṇḍanâtha, who is mentioned in an inscription at Harihar⁸ and one at Bêlûr.⁹ There is a long unpublished Sanskṛit inscription in Grantha characters, containing a string of birudas of this minister, in the Raṅganâtha temple at Śrîraṅgam.¹⁰

......4. Guṇḍapa-daṇḍanâtha, who is mentioned in inscriptions at Bêlûr.¹¹

......5. Vîra-Bâchaṇṇa-Voḍeya, who, according to a Kanarese inscription at Makaravaḷḷi in the Hângal tâlukâ of the Dharwar district, dated Śaka-Saṁvat 1321, the Pramâdi saṁvatsara, and during the reign of Harihara (II.), was ruling Gôve, the modern Goa.¹²

......6. According to an unpublished copper-plate inscription in the Nandinâgarî alphabet and Kanarese language at Bhaṭkaḷ in the Bombay Presidency, two impressions of which were received by Dr. Hultzsch from Mr. Cousens,— Mallaṇa-Oḍeyar, who resided at Honnâvura (Honavar), was ruling the principality of Haive in Śaka-Saṁvat 1309, the Kshaya saṁvatsara ( = A.D. 1387), as a dependant of Harihara (II). With the permission of Dr. Hultzsch, I subjoin the passage which contains the date of this inscription.

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......¹ See p.116, note 1.
......² According to Professor Aufrecht, Catalogus Catalogorum, p. 711, Sâyaṇa died in A.D. 1387.
......³ Ind. Ant. Vol. IV. p. 206.
......⁴ South Indian Inscriptions, Vol. I. p. 156.
......⁵ Mr. Rice’s Inscriptions at Śravaṇa-Beḷgoḷa, No. 82.
......⁶ Dr. Hultzsch’s Progress Report for February to April 1890, p. 3.
......⁷ South-Indian Inscriptions, Vol. I. p. 156.
......⁸ Mr. Rice’s Mysore Inscriptions, p. 56.
......⁹ ibid. pp. 267 ff.
......¹⁰ See p. 116, note 4.
......¹¹ Mr. Rice’s Mysore Inscriptions, pp. 222 and 227.
......¹² See p. 116, note 4.
......¹³ From two ink-impressions prepared by Mr. Cousens.
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