inscriptions in the hassan district

INTRODUCTION. *•
myriads of ruined Jaina temples and bestowing unbounded donations he made
the Gangavadi Ninety-six Thousand to shine like Kopana (a great ancient Jain
city, now Kopal in the south-west of the Nizam's Dominions) 1) . On Ganga-
Raja's death his son Boppa (whose gurus were subhachandra and Prabhachandra)
erected a Jina temple of rare beauty to his memory in D6rasamudra,
naming it the Drohagbaratta Jinalaya after one of his father's titles, and
having it consecrated by Nayakirtti. The priests then took the consecrated
food to Vishnuvarddhana at Bankapura. He had just defeated and slain
Masana 2) who fell upon him with an immense army, and captured the whole
of his empire. The queen Lakshmi-mahadevi had also just borne him a son.
He therefore received the priests with great favour, attributed both the victory
and the birth of his son to the favour of their god, and accordingly, besides
granting them endowments, gave to the god the name Vijaya-Parsva and to
his son the name Vijaya-Narasiiiiha. BI 93, which describes the king as
ruling all the territory to the south of the Krishnaveni river, also refers to the
bame events, and says—"Immediately after the moment when he (Narasimha)
issued from his mother's womb, his father in one watch subdued and slew the
enemy who was falling upon him, and returning victorious, with affection gave
him the name Pratapa-Narasimha, and crowned him from the time he was
born. Thus from the clay of his birth he had a diadem on his brow". On. 248,
dated 1134, gives a further account of the conquests by which Ganga-Raja
enlarged the kingdom. He seized Talakadu, took possession of Kongu, drove
off Banki, overthrew Chengiri, and sent Narasmga to the abode of Yama. His
nephew Echa erected Jina temples in Belgola like those in Kopana, while his
eldest son Boppa subdued the Kongas and brought various countries into
subjection to his master. Ak. 30, also dated 1134, gives Ramesvara as the
southern boundary of the kingdom. Hn. 119 also says - east, south, and
west, three oceans being the boundaries of the land he ruled, on the north he
made the Perddore his boundary. His own country he gave to Brabmans and
the gods, and himself ruled over the foreign countries won by his sword.
Bl. 88 says there was no great gift which be had not bestowed; no kings who
had not fled terrified by his arrows; no point of the compass where pillars of
victory inscribed with his name had not been erected; no quarter of the world
which had not been filled with joy at his great fame. InHn. 89, dated 1135,
we have a repetition of Vishnuvarddhana conquests, as already given in
inscriptions noticed above. The fresh information of interest regarding him
here obtained is his marriage with a Santala-Devi, the beautiful daughter of a
chief named Keteya-Nayaka and his wife Jakkiyabbe. The issue of this
marriage was a lovely daughter, named Chikka-Santale. But both mother and
l) Perhaps the Kong-kin-na-pu-lo of Hinen Tsiang.
2) Who this was la not clear, probably the general in command of some imperial foroea,