inscriptions in the hassan district

INTRODUCTION. Ill
stone recording it now is. It is situated in the Konanur hobli of the Arkalgud
taluq, to the north of the Kaveri river. We also had mention of the village
of Kolanellur in the Galigekere plates (Yd. 60) and in the Nitre stone (Gu. 79),
dated respectively in about 890 and in 1009 A. D. These may be the same
village. But the Kolanallur of our present inscription is said to be in the
Vallavi district. This I am disposed to identify with the Ballavi Seventy
mentioned in inscriptions in the Honnali taluq of the Shimoga District. It is
there described as being near the Tungabhadra river and situated in the
Banavase Twelve Thousand 1 . There is a Nallur to the south-west of the
Sttlekere in Channagiri taluq, and from No. 51 of that taluq it is evident that
there was a circle named Kole in the immediate neighbourhood.
Another Kadamba grant (Bl. 245) of the same reign and in the same
characters 2) has come to light in the Bennur plates, said to be handed down
in the family of the present owner 3 The contents differ in some Singular
respects from the former. They begin, as do most of the Ganga plates, with
Jitam bhagavata. The svasti is opposite the 3rd line. The opening verse
praises the king for feeding thousands of Brahmans in the same way as
Yudbishthira. In the body of the grant, after the usual Kadamba epithets, he
is described as the fifth king (patichama-lokapdlah) of the Kadambas, the
dharmma-maharajah vijaya-siva-Krishnavarrmna. His grandfather's name is
given in the form Vishnudasa. The grant was made when the king was
setting out on an expedition from Vaijayanti, in front of (the god) Mahadeva
of Inguna, on Pansha-suhla-pratipadi; and consisted of the village of Palmadi
in the Sendraka-vishaya 4 , given to a Brahman named Bhavasvami, together
with a dasabandha s) of six nivarttana. After usual imprecations, a blessing is
invoked on Dosharasivarmma 6) on account of the grant, and the inscription
ends with obeisance to Vishnu.
We have to pass over several centuries to arrive at the next Kadamba
inscriptions in this volume, and they are on stone. These are Hn. 38, Mj. 28,
and Hn. 45, of which only the last is dated, giving us Saka 947 as its period
(1025 A. D.). The others may be somewhat earlier.
In the first the name of the king is unfortunately effaced, but he is said to
be in the residence of Banavase. He conferred a title or bound a crown on
the grandson of his guru for some display of bravery. In the second the king
1) I do not think Vallavi is Bellavi in Tumkur District, as suggested by DP. Kielhorn
2) The same little dots or knobs appear wherever the graver has stopped. Anusvara is represented
by a short horizontal wavy stroke above the line.
3) The plates are in excellent order. The ring, closed with a lion seal, had not been out.
4) This was in the north-west of the Mysore ooantry.
5) Dasavanda is rent-free land granted for building or repairing a tank, on condition of paying
one-tenth (or a small share) of the produce.
6) This ominous name seems intended for the king.