inscriptions in the hassan district

INTRODUCTION. XIII
Manikya-Devi of the Chakrakuta throne, brought down the pride of Adiyama,
overturned the tree Narasimhabrahma, split the skull of king Kala, destroyed
the serpent Chengiri, broke down the plantain stems the spears of Irungdla,
shook the mountain Chengiri-Perumala, set up Patti-Perumala, made Talakadu
his own, took the Kongu country, protected Nolambavadi, expanded Nilaparvvata,
extended Kdlala-pura, uprooted Kdvatur, shook Teriyur, crossed
over Vallur, unchained Nangali-pura, pulled up the door of the Ghats, and
made Kanchi-pura tremble 0 . The boundaries of his kingdom at this time
were,— east, the lower Ghat of Nangali; south, Kongu, Cheram and Anamale;
west, the Barakanur and other Ghats of Konkana; north, Savimale. Praises
follow of the queen Santala who is said to have been born in Balipura. The
inscription records the consecration of the great temple at Velapura ,} or Belur
where the king was living, dedicated to Vijaya-Narayana under the name of
Chenna-Kesava, who is described with an immense number of epithets. Bl. 16
repeats much of the same and says that Santala-Devi with the. approval of
king Vishnu assumed the crown (pattamam dhariyisidal). Its date (not
mentioned) may be the same or earlier, and it is not complete.
Bl. 147, dated 1121, contains much of the same matter, but states that
the king was in the residence of Ddrasamudra (the modern Halebid), and that
Ketamalla (apparently a merchant) erected there a siva temple named after
the patron of his family Vishnuvarddhana-Poysalesvara. This stone is at
Ghattadahalli, close to Halebid on the east, and might possibly refer to the
great Hoysalesvara temple. This question will be considered farther on in the
section treating of the temple. Cn. 2606 of the-same date represents the Deva
(or king), the patta-raabadevi Santala-Devi and the five ministers (pancha
pradhdnarum) as being present at the making of the grant, and we shall find
other instances in which the king and the five ministers (whoever they were)
form the final court of appeal for the decision of important questions. Hn. 102,
dated 1123, gives the Peddore (or Krishna river) as the king's northern
boundary. Being at the time on the bank of the goddess Kavert, he heard of
the death at Kellavatti in Nirggunda-nad of his younger brother Udayaditya,
and so converted the village into a rent-free agrahara of 18 shares for the
Brahmans who had been dependent on him. (Hn. 173 may possibly be a
1) Of these references Jagaddeva was a Santara king, Someivara was the Cb&lukya king, Adiyama
was the Chola governor of Talakadu, Narasimhavarmma was a Pallava chief there, Kala was a
king in Nilagiri, chenglri was perhaps the hill fort of Senji (Gingee), Irongola was the chief of
Nidugal in Pavagada taluq, Talakadu is in the south of Mysore district, Kongo was in Coimbatore and
Salem distriots, Nolambadi was the Chitaldroog district, Nlla-parvTata was Nilagiri, Kolala-para
was Kolar, Kovatur was Coimbatore, Teriyur was in the north-east of Tumkur district, Vallur in
Paragada taluq or in the Ouddapah distriot, Nangali is in the east of Kolar district, Kanohl is
Conjereratn.
2) This oeromony is also reoorded in Bl. 71 of the same date,—Hemalambi-tamvattarada Chaitra-
Suddha-panchamti but while Bl. 68 (on stone) gives the week day as Vaddavara (Saturday), Bl 71
(on copper plates) gives it as Adivara (Sunday).