North Indian Inscriptions

BAMANI INSCRIPTION OF VIJAYADITYA.

Kundakunda lineage’ ;¹ exempting the grant from all taxes and molestations. Lines 34-41 contain five imprecatory verses ; these are followed in lines 42-43 by another well known verse in praise of the Jaina doctrine ; and lines 43-44 add, in Old-Kanarese, that this inscription was engraved by Gôvyôja, the son the goldsmith Bammyôja,² and lay-disciple³ of Abhinandadêva.

......As regards the date of this grant, the year Pramôda is Śaka-Saṁvat 1073, here too as a current (not, as stated erroneously in the text, as an expired) year ; and for Śaka-Saṁvat 1073 current the given day corresponds to Friday, the 8th September, A.D. 1150, when there was a total lunar eclipse 20 h. 6 m. after mean sunrise, which of course was visible in India.

......Of the localities mentioned, in addition to those which have already been spoken of in the preceding inscription, I am unable to identify the village of Maḍa[l]ûra ; and I can only hesitatingly suggest that the concluding part of the mutilated name of the district, . . ṇavu[ka]-gegoḷḷa, may perhaps survive in the name of the town of Kâgal, in the neighbourhood of which the inscription is still preserved.

TEXT.⁴

1 Svasti || ⁵Jayaty=amaḷa-pratipatti-pradarśakaṁ | arhatah =Pur[u]dê[va]-⁶ 2 sya śâsanaṁ môha-śâsanaṁ || Śrî-Śiḷâhâra-vaṁśê Jatigô nâma [kshi]-
3 tîśas=saṁjâtas=tat=putray Goṁkala-Gûvalau | tatra Goṁkalasya sû[nu]-
4 r=Mmârasiṁhadêvas=tad-apatyaṁ Gaṇḍarâdityadêvas=tasya nandanaḥ |⁷ Samadhiga-
5 tapaṁchamahâśabda-mahâmaṇḍ[ḷê]¬śvaraḥ | Tagara-pura-
6 var-âdhîśvaraḥ | śrî-Śiḷâhâra-vaṁśa-sa(na)rêndraḥ | Jîmûtavâhan-â-
7 nvaya-prasûtaḥ | suvarṇṇa-garuḍa-dhvajaḥ | maruvakka-sarppaḥ | ayyana-siṁ-
8 gaḥ | ripu-maṇḍaḷika-bhairavaḥ | vidvishṭa-[ga]ja-kaṇṭhîvaraḥ | iḍuvarâdityaḥ |
9 kaliyuga-Vikramâdityaḥ | rûpa-Nârâyaṇaḥ | giri-durgga-laṁghanaḥ | śa-
10 nivâra-sidhdhi(ddhi)ḥ | śrî-Mahâlakshmî-labdha-varaprasâda ityâdi-nâmâvaḷi- virâjamânaḥ |
11 śrîmad-Vijayâdityadêvaḥ | Vaḷavâḍa-sthira-śibirê sukha-saṁkathâ-vi-
12 nôdêna vijaya-râjyaṁ kurvvan | Śaka-varshêshu trisaptaty-uttara-saha-
13 sra-pramitêshv=atîtêshu⁸ aṁkatô=pi 1073 pracarttamâna-Pramôda-saṁva[tsa]-⁹
14 ra-Bhâdrapada-paurṇṇamâsî-Śukravârê sômagrahaṇa-parvva-nimitta[ṁ] . .¹⁰
15 ṇavu[ka]gegoḷḷ-ânugata-Maḍa[l]ûra-grâmê Saṇagamayya-Chaṁ[dha] . .¹¹
16 vvayôḥ putrêṇa | Punnakabbâyah=patyâ Jentagâvuṇḍa-Hemma-
17 gâvuṇḍayôh=pitrâ Chôdhore-Kâmagâvuṇḍêna kâritâyâḥ |
18 śrî-Pârśvanâtha-vasatêr=ddêvânâm=ashṭavi[dh]-ârchchana-nimittaṁ¹² | vasatêḥ kha-
19 ṇḍa-sphuṭita-jîrṇṇ-ôdhdhâ(ddhâ)r-ârtthaṁ | tatrasthita-yatînâm=âhâ-
20 ra-dân-ârtthaṁ cha tasminn=êva grâmê Kûṁḍidêśa-daṇḍêna niva-
21 rttana-chaturttha-bhâga-pramita-kshêtraṁ | tên=aiva daṇḍêna ṭriṁ-
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......¹ Se Mr. Rice’s Inscriptions at Śravaṇa-Beḷgoḷa, p. 9.
......² [The second portion of these two names is the Kanarese ôja, ‘a stone-cutter’ (Sanderson). The two first components appear to be Gôpî and Brâhmî.― E. H.]
......³ On guḍḍa see Ind. Ant. Vol. XII. P. 99 ff. and page 207 above, note 6.
......⁴ From an impression, supplied to me by Dr. Fleet.
......⁵ Metre : Ślôka (Anushṭubh).
......⁶ The aksharas in brackets at the end of lines 1-3 are almost entirely effaced.
......⁷ This sign of punctuation and all the others in lines 5-25 are superfluous.
......⁸ Here and in other places which it is unnecessary to point out separately, the rules of saṁdhi have not been observed.
......⁹ This akshara is effaced.
......¹⁰ Here two aksharas are broken away.
......¹¹ Here one or two aksharas are broken away.
......¹² Originally °chchaṇa- was engraved.