inscriptions in the hassan district

XIV INTRODUCTION.
grant made by this Udayaditya. It is not dated.) Hn. 116, also dated 1123,
compares Vishnuvarddhana's conquest of Talakadu to making a clearing in the
forest, fencing it round by piling up the bodies of hostile kings, burning it,
ploughing it with the hoofs of his horsemen, forming seed-beds watered with
the stream of his valour, and sowing them with his lasting fame. His northern
boundary is given as the Heddore and Savimale, so the latter, which has not
been identified, was probably near the Krishna1 ) . He now made a grant to
his queen Santala-Devi, (the daughter of Marasinga and Machikabbe), of the
village of Santigrama (now called Grama, east of Hassan), and gave the villages
belonging to it to 220 Brahraans. Cn. 149, dated 1125, says that the king
was ruling all the lands as far as to the shore of the southern ocean, and was
in Talavana-pura. A humorous description is given of the effect of the king's
southern exploits. Adiyama (it says) ran as if in a race, and learning the
pace Nrisimhavarmma ran, while Chengin having multiplied upon that pace,
the proud Kongas learnt it from Chengiri, and seeing the celebrated Kongas,
Pandya also ran, —who would not run before king Vishnu? He had a Jaina
temple made for Sripala-traividya-deva, and presented him with the village of
Salya as an endowment. Sripala's spiritual descent is traced with mention of
Jama teachers from Mahavira onwards. He is called the shat-tarkka-Shanmukha
and inherited the titles vddibhasimha, vadi-koldhala and tarkkikachakravartti.
In Kd. 69 (Vol. VI) Sripala is described as a commentator on
prose and poetry, and it there says that at the courts of the Chola and
other kings he had defeated many and put them down. In Ak. 41, dated 1130,
and Ak. 46, dated 1132, wa have a chief appointed to the government of
Kalikatti, who is described as a worshipper of the feet of Nolamba-Deva.
(Compare On. 129 and Kd. 140, Vol. VI). Bl. 124, dated 1133, is an
important and interesting inscription giving a well composed account of the
king's conquests. His destruction of all his enemies was like the breaking up
of the great deep, the coursers of the sun being borne away in the deluge and
all the points of the compass filled with the sounds of their neighing. In covert
language he is credited with the possession of Anga, Kuntala, Kanchi and
Madhura ,j . A description follows of his minister Ganga-Raja of whom we
have so many notices in the Sravana Belgola inscriptions. By rebuilding
*' In Ak. 172 the boundaries are given as, —west, the Western Ocean; east, Kanchi-pura, south,
the Sandalwood mountains, north, the Peddore. See also Bl 119
2) Cn. 179 says that he broke the bones of the Malava Chera Kerala Nolamba Kadamba Kalmga
Vanga Bangala Varala Chdla Rhasa Barbbara Oddaha and other kings and brought them into
submission to himself. Ak. 23 says he was to Chdla a scarecrow, to Malava a out-throat, to Chera
a devouring epidemic, to Varala a rutting elephant to trample on him, to Kach an arrow in bis liver,
to Nepala a whip for bis tack. Bl. 193 says that while still a youth, like a keen soldier, he broke
and trampled on the Maleya-maharaja and roasted Jagaddva, he penetrated into Talakad, destroyed
Kongu, and made a breach of Nangali, subdued S&dali, reduced Budali to ashes, smote Pariyur,
uprooted Cherama, took possession of Kanchi-pura, put to flight Pandya, went clean through
Uchehangi, and made the mud standing in Sinda run out, he burnt Bollitige, as if,burning black
bricks, reduoed Annigere to little brioks, ground down Ball a re, set fire to Rajavur, broke the leg
of Hanangsl, besides crushing Banavase, Halasige, Huligere and Beluvala.