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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
EPIGRAPHIA INDICA According to verse 1, Vîra-Pâṇḍya was prompted to undertake this work by the Jaina priest Lalitakîrti, who belonged to the lineage of Panasôge[1] and to the Dêśîgaṇa. The same verse occurs in another Kârkaḷa inscription[2] of Immaḍi-Bhairarasa fo the family of Jinadatta,─ apparently one of the successors of Vîra-Pâṇḍya,─ who built the Chaturmukhabasti at Kârkaḷa in Śaka-Saṁvat 1508 (expired), the Vyaya year. It follows from this, that the Jaina svâmins of Hanasôge bore the hereditary title Lalitakîrti[3] and were the spiritual preceptors of the chiefs of Kârkaḷa. The day on which the image was consecrated fell into the (expired) Śaka year 1353 (in numerical words, l. 5 f., and in figures, l. 14 f.), the cyclic year Virôdhikṛit. According to Professor Kielhorn’s calculation, the date corresponds to Wednesday, the 13th February A.D. 1432.[4]
TEXT.[5] (Verse 1.) At the advice of that chief of sages, named Lalitakîrti, who was the lord of the lineage (âvali) of Panasôge, (which arose) in the holy (and) famous Dêśîgaṇa,-
(V. 2.) Hail ! In the (cyclic) year Virôdhyâdikṛit[7] (which corresponded) to (the year
measure by) three, the arrows (5), the fires (3) and the moon (1) of the glorious Śaka king,[8]
[1] This is the modern Hanasôge in the Yeḍatore tâluka of the Mysore district. See Mr. Rice’s Ep. Corn. Vol. IV., Introduction, p 16. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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