inscriptions in the hassan district

INTRODUCTION. XI
with the usual Hoysala titles. No reason is apparent for his omission from
the ordinary genealogy, which proceeds from Sala, the progenitor of the line, to
Vinayaditya. It may be noted that the inscriptions which introduce Nripa-
Kama contain no mention of Sala. But if they were identical, the fact could
not fail to have leaked out in some of the many hundreds of Hoysala inscriptions.
What relation he bore to Sala, therefore, wo have so far no means of determining.
Bl. 112 says that Sala was the founder of Sasakupura, the birthplace
of the Hoysalas, which I have identified with Angadi in Mudugere taluq, Kadur
District (see Vol. VI).
The inscriptions of Vinayaditya generally call him Tribhuvanamalla-Poysala
and say that he was ruling the Gangavadi Ninety-six Thousand. But Ak. 179
names him as Binayayta and Ak. 102a as Vinayayta. The latter says that
he was ruling from the west to as far as Talakadu (apardseyinde Talakddu
varam), and Ak. 87 that he was ruling over hill and dale (maleyum mandamam).
On. 148 mentions his having the six letters Ra-kka-sa Po-ysa-la on his flag.
This same inscription contains special praises of his son Ereyanga and of
his guru Gopanandi. At the end Ereyanga is represented as ruling the Gangamandala
and making a grant to GOpanandi. The date of this is 1094. But
Ak. 102 a says of Ereyanga that at the Chalukya emperor's bidding he caused
the elder brother to sheath (his sword) 1) ; the Chohka's king (annate) he caused
to wear leaves, Nannuge (whoever he was) he caused to write himself down in
three letters (perhaps ?annuge, a woman or a coward); and putting a bit into
(the mouths of) the best of kings between the Hima mountain and Setu, he
mounted them. With the hot rage in Nannuge's breast as the witness of fire,
and by means of Dhara (otherwise, with the pouring of water), he suddenly
wedded the goddess of valour 2) As the mandapa was consumed in the burning
of the Khandava (forest), so the fire of the Poysala king's glory blazed up in
the Vindhya mountains and seized ? Udhapuram. The only wife assigned to
him in all the inscriptions is Eechala-Devi by whom he had the three sons
Ballala, Bitti-Deva and Udayaditya. But hero his wife is said to have been
Mahadevi of the Chola family and Suryya-vamsa (or Solar race). She was the
daughter of Irukkupala, younger brother of Pandya, who turned back Bhuvanaikamalla,
and seizing his kingdom, himself gave it in person to Tnbhuvanamalla.
This Pandya was the son of Teja-Raya. On her mother's side Mali Adevi's
grandfather was Karkkala-maraya, who was in Tereyur, like Dasakantha
1) The emperor was Vikramaditya Tribhuvanamalla, and his elder brother, Somesvara
Bhuvanaikamalla.
2) Hit burning of Dhara, the oapital of the powerful Malava kings, made famous by Bhoja, and
bis burning of Beleyapattana on the seashore are described in Bl. 58 Hn. 65 also says that
Baliynpattana (or Bali's city) was burnt up by his anger Ak 117 says that the Malava king's
bill-fort, which was too strong for the Chalukyas, he without effort plundered while Chalukya was
looking on.
B