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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
EPIGRAPHIA INDICA of the year Krōdhana itself or sometime prior to it. Further evidence by future research alone can settle these points. Since Ballāḷa’s father himself was Narasiṁha, his own son is called Chikka-Narasiṁgayya. The geographical names that occur in the record are Muḷugunda, Hosavūr and Tuppadahaḷḷi besides the well-known Vāraṇāsi, i.e. Banaras which is usually mentioned in the imprecator portion of such records. Muḷugunda can be identified with modern Muḷgund in the Gadag Taluk and Hosavūr apparently is the modern Hosur, the findspot of the record. Tuppadahaḷḷi, however cannot be identified, since no village of that name is now found in the vicinity of Hosur.
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1 (Symbol) Svasti śrīmatu Yāddava-Nārāyaṇa-pratā-
TRANSLATION Lines 1-10. Hail ! In the year 1129[2] of the illustrious Yādava-Nārāyaṇa Pratāpachakravarti Vīra-Ballāḷadēva of the Hoysaḷa family and the year Prabhava, on Sunday, the 11th day of the bright half of Āshāḍha, when there were vyatīpāta (yōga) and Karkaṭaka-saṁkramaṇa, Mahāpradhāna and Sarvvādhikāri Chikka-Narasiṁgayya, the second son of the emperor, while administering (the division of) Muḷugunda Twelve, obtained with the pouring of water from the Seven-Hundred of Hosavūr headed by Mahābaḷagāvuṁḍa, land, free from all imposts. ________________________________________________
[1] From ink impressions.
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