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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
EPIGRAPHIA INDICA boundaries, further places below the ghauts and in the neighbourhood of Kârkaḷa will have to be examined. But an inscription in the Koppa tâluka (Ep. Carn. Vol. VI. Kp. 47), dated in Śaka-Saṁvat 1452 (= A.D. 1530-31), states that, while Vîra-Bairarasa-Voḍeya was ruling on the throne at Kârakaḷa, his younger sister Kâḷaladêvi was in charge of (the district) Baguñji-sîme. Mg. 40, dated in Śaka-Saṁvat 1474 (= A.D. 1552-53), records that Pâṇḍya-Voḍeya was on the throne at Keravase while a certain Bhayirarsaṇṇâji was in charge of Kaḷasa. The same fact is mentioned also in Mg. 60, dated four years later. The district Baguñji-sîme apparently derived its name from the modern village of Bagguñji in the Bâḷe-Honnûr tâluka, about 8 miles north-east of Śṛiṅgêri ; and Keravase is identical with Keravâśe, 8 miles east of Kârkaḷa (Mr. Sewell’s Lists of Antiquities, Vol. I. p. 232). Mûḍabidure and Vêṇûr, two other important centers of Jaina religion in the South Canara district which are not very far from Kârkaḷa, do not appear to have been included in the Kaḷasa-Kârakaḷa-râjya. The former of these two villages was in the possession of a family of local chiefs called Chauṭar, who were under the direct control of the Vijayanagara viceroys at Mangalore, while the second belonged to another petty Jaina, principality, known as Puñjaḷi– or Puñjaḷike-râjya, and was ruled over by the Ajilar.[1] Besides, the villages Mûḍabidure and Vêṇûr were included within the religious sphere of the Jaina teacher Chârukîrti, while Kârkaḷa and its chiefs were subordinate to Lalitakîrti.[2] It may, therefore, be provisionally assumed that the territory of the Kaḷasa-Kârkaḷa chiefs extended from Bagguñji above the ghauts to Kârkaḷa below the ghauts, including between them the towns of Keravase and Kaḷasa. This comprises almost the whole of the present Bâḷe-Honnûr tâluka[3] of the Kaḍûr district in the Mysore State and the south-eastern portion of the Uḍipi tâluka in the South Canara district.
The village of Teḷâra, which was granted to the Chaturmukhabasti, is situated about 3 miles north-east of Kârkaḷa and is marked on the Madra Survey Map of the South Canara district as Tellàr. The two other villages, Rañjâḷa and Nallûru, which together contributed a sum of 238 varaha, are situated quite close to each other at a distance of about 4 miles due east of Kârkaḷa and are marked on the same map as Nallur and Renjàla. Several nameless streams are marked on the map round Tellàr, and these may have to be identified with the four boundary streams mentioned in l. 24. Two other proper names which occur in ll. 43 and 47, viz. Ârûru and Kelavase, are identical with ‘Arur ’ and ‘ Keravase ’ (Keravâśe) on the same map, in the Uḍipi tâluka.
The requirements for the daily and annual worship in the temple, for which provision is made,
call for a few remarks. The complicated calculation are very carefully worked out, and we are
enabled to infer that, in measuring rice, 1 mûḍe was = 50 hâne,[4] and 1 hâne = 7 1/5 kuḍute, and
that, in counting money, 1 ga was = 10 m. Twelve hâḍa[5] of oil cost 8 ga 4 m, and 1 hâḍa cost 7 m.
[1] See the Government Epigraphist’s Annual Report for 1900-01, paragraph 5, and above, Vol. VII. p. 114 and
note 1. It may here be noted that in an unpublished inscription at Kârkaḷa (No. 59 of the Government Epigraphist’s
collection for 1901), dated in the cyclic year Viḷambin, a certain Bhairarasa-Voḍeya, son of Vîra-Bhairarasa-Voḍeya
of the Kaḷasa-Kârkaḷa family, presided over the settlement of a dispute, in which the Chaüṭaru, Ajilaru,
Dêsiṅgarasaru and Śiśiladarasaru (i.e. the chief of Śiśila) …ted as arbitrators (madhyastha).
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