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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA
Of the territorial divisions mentioned in this record, the Banavâsi twelve-thousand and
the Purigere three-hundred are already well known. The Niḍugundage twelve was, of course,
a group of villages headed by the modern Niḍagundi itself. The position of the Kundarage
seventy is probably marked by a village in the North Kanara district, the name of which is not
given in the Indian Atlas sheet No. 42 (1827) but is shewn in the Map of the Dhârwâr
Collectorate (1874), perhaps as a hamlet or deserted village, as ‘Koondurgee,’ one mile and a
half east-by-south from Muṇḍagôḍ in the Yellâpur tâluka and nine miles west-by-north from
Niḍagundi. The Beḷgali three-hundred may be connected either with a village in the Baṅkâpur tâluka, which is shewn as ‘Belgullee’ in the Indian Atlas sheet No. 41 (1852), and as
‘Belugulee’ in the Collectorate Map, four miles on the north of Shiggaon, and about eight
miles north-by-east from Niḍagundi, or with a village in the Hubḷi tâluka, which is shewn as
‘Belgulee’ in the Collectorate Map, but as ‘Bellagutee’─ (no doubt, by mistake for
‘Bellagullee’) ─ in the Atlas sheet No. 41, about seven and a half miles on the south of Hubḷi,
and twenty-two miles towards the north-by-west from Niḍagundi. The position of the Kundûr
five-hundred is a more difficult question. There is a village in the Baṅkâpur tâluka, which is
shewn in both the Atlas sheet No. 42 and the Collectorate Map as ‘Koondoor,’ seven miles south-south-east-half-south from Shiggaon, and five miles south-east from Niḍagundi ; but the close
proximity of the Pânuṁgal or Hânuṁgal five-hundred and the Purigere three-hundred districts,
renders it difficult, ifs not impossible, to find room for a five-hundred district there. And there
is also a ‘ Kundur ’ somewhere in the Sirsi tâluka of North Kanara ; but, if the Kundûr five-hundred lay there, Baṅkêyarasa must have been governing also the Pânuṁgal five-hundred,
intervening directly between that locality and the Purigere three-hundred ; whereas, the record
does not mention the Pânuṁgal five-hundred. A Kundûr five-hundred, however, appears to
be mentioned elsewhere, in the passage in the Amînbhâvi inscription of A.D. 1113,[1] which,
according to the transcription given in Sir Walter Elliot’s Manuscript Collection, mentions the
place as Ammaiyyanabhâvi, and claims that, in the time of the Western Chalukya king
Pulakêśin II., and in A. D. 566 or 567 (an altogether incorrect date), certain grants were made
to the god Kalidêva of Ammaiyyanabhâvi, which was an agrahâra in the Kundûr five-hundred
of the Palasige province (vishaya). Amînbhâvi is about six miles north-north-east from
Dhârwâr, and about thirty miles on the east of Halsî, the ancient Palasige, in the Khânâpur
tâluka. The position is a thoroughly suitable one for the Kundûr five-hundred district. And I
think that we may safely take it that the Kundûr five-hundred of the present record is
localised by the Amînbhâvi record and included that village, though I cannot at present identify
the town, Kundûr, from which the district took its appellation.
TEXT.[2]
1 Svasty[3]=Amôghavarsha śrîpṛithiviva-
2 llabha mahârâjâdhirâjâ(ja) paramêśvara bhaṭ[â]-
3 rara(r) ond-uttaraṁ râjyaṁ-geyyutt-ire satya-samara-
saṁ
4 ghaṭṭaṇ(n)-ôpalabdha- v i j a y a l a k s h m î – n i v â s i t a-[4]
[5] chellakêtana śrîmat |Baṁkêy5-arasara(r) Banavâsî-6
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[1] Regarding this record, see Dyn. Kan. Distrs. p. 358, note 1, and Ind. Ant. Vol. XXX. p. 209.
[2] From the ink-impression.
[3] The marks before this word do not seem well enough defined to be taken for the remnants of a damaged
symbol for the word Ôm.
[4] The second syllable of this word is an anomalous character, neither exactly vâ nor exactly ma. It occurs
again in Banavâsi, in the next line.
[5] Regarding the quantity of the vowel of the second syllable of this name, see note 4 on page 200 above.
[6] Regarding the third syllable of this word, which is neither exactly vâ nor exactly ma, see note 4 above.
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