inscriptions in the hassan district

INTRODUCTION v
hand looked to the Hoysalas and Chalukyas as overlords, in witness of which
we have Dayasimha's cognomen of Tribhuvanamalla. Other evidence will
appear farther on that Manjarabad was the point where the Ch61a invasion
from the south was checked on the western side of Mysore.
Gangas.
The earliest Ganga inscriptions in this volume belong to the reign of
Sripurusha (Ak. 176 and Cn. 208). They are not dated, but may be assigned
to from 750 to 770 A.D. They are virakal and contain nothing of importance.
But the second mentions that Nirggunda-arasa was ruling the Nirggunda-nad
Three Hundred. This province was situated in the south-west of the Chitaldroog
District, where Nirggunda still exists. It and its rulers are mentioned
in other inscriptions of Sripurusha, such as the Devarhalli plates (Ng. 86,
Vol. IV) and the Talkad stone (TN. 1, Vol. III). Here also, later, in Ag. 81.
We next have two inscriptions (Ak. 99 and Hn. 28) of the time of Satyavakya
Kongunivarmma Permmadi, the latter dating in 896 A. D. They are
fragmentary and contain nothing of importance. These are followed by seven
(see list) of the time of Nitimargga which are of some interest. Only Hn. 33
is dated and falls in 910 A. D., but the king's name and nearly all particulars
are effaced. Hn. 99 is of his 17th year and Ag. 26 of his 19th year, both
without any other date. Ag. 5 and 27 record his death, but with no date
Ag. 24, besides calling bim Nitimargga, specifically names him as Nanniya-
Ganga, and states that at the time of an eclipse of the sun in that year (no
year mentioned) he made a grant of lands as vidya-ddna to his ayya (or teacher)
Makhanda-bhatara. In Ag. 26 he is called Satyavakya as well as Nitimargga,
and Ereyapparasa made a grant for some one who fell in war. Ag. 5, with
the title Nitimargga, styles him Rachamalla and says that he ascended to
svarga in Kombale. From sorrow for which event a man named Racheya
entered the fire, and the kalndd which had been granted to him by Ereyappa
was resumed. In Ag. 11 the first part is effaced, but Ereyappa is seen granting
a kalndd. In Ag. 27 the king is again called Satyavakya and Nitimargga,
and the cause of his death is said to have been phlegm (or hiccough) sticking
in his throat when he was on an expedition in which he had acquired as far
as . .nnanur. Owing to this event another man Bahiyama entered the fire.
The death of Nitimargga is the subject of the sculptured representation in
TN. 91 (Vol. Ill) l) , which is not dated. Thus far we appear to have only
six actual dates for Nftimargga, namely, 899 in Kd. 141 (Vol. VI), 906 in
Kp. 38 (Vol. IV), 909 in Ml. 30 (Vol. Ill) and 910 in Hn. 33 (Vol. V), with
902 and 909 in the unpublished Narsapur and Mankunda inscriptions (see
1) See also Ep. Ind., VI, 41.