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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
EPIGRAPHIA INDICA with the first line. In Mr. Rice’s opinion, ll. 1 and 2 were engraved between A.D. 977 and 984,[1] and l. 3 between A.D. 1115 and 1118.[2] TEXT.[3]
1 Srî-Châmuṇḍarâjaṁ mâḍisidaṁ TRANSLATION.
(Line 1.) The glorious Châmuṇḍarâja caused (this image) to be made.
B.- On the proper left side of the colossus at Beḷgoḷa.
The alphabet is Nâgarî and the language is Marâṭhî. The first line is a translation of l. 1 of the preceding inscription (A.), and the second line of l. 3 of the same inscription. As the type of the alphabet of ll. 1 and 2 is quite identical, it may be assumed that both lines were engraved in the time of Gaṅgarâja, whose name occurs in the second line. The Marâṭhî language was perhaps adopted for the benefit of Jaina pilgrims from the Marâṭha country.
TRANSLATION.
(Line 1.) The glorious Châvuṇḍarâja caused (this image) to be made. C.─ On the proper right side of the colossus at Kârkaḷa ; Śaka-Saṁvat 1353. This inscription (No. 63 of 1901) was first published in a tentative manner by Dr. Burnell.[7] Mr. Rice’s reprint of Dr. Burnell’s text.[8] contains a few improvements, based on a copy which was supplied to him by the late Brahmasuri Sastri, the well-known Jaina scholar of Śrâvaṇa-Beḷgoḷa.
The alphabet is Kanarese, with the exception of the colophon Śrî-Pâṁḍyarâya in l. 15,
which is in Grantha characters. The inscription consists of two Sanskṛit verses and a few
words in Sanskṛit prose (l. 14 f.). It records that the chief Vîra-Pâṇḍya (l. 11) or Pâṇḍyarâya (l. 15), who was the son of Bhairavêndra of the lunar race, caused to be made the image of Bâhubalin, on which the inscription is engraved.
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