inscriptions in the hassan district

INTRODUCTION. XVII
eight years of age1) when he had become proficient in the use of arms, obtained
for him a virgin-jewel as a bride and himself took part in the marriage
ceremoniet. At the age of ten or eleven l) the boy having become as sharp as
kusa grass and perfect in the four tests of character, the king invested him
with the title of mahd-prachandki-dandandyaka and made him sarwddhikdri.
He justified his patron's confidence by gaining important victories in the south
with extraordinary rapidity, in half a month it says, especially burning Rayarayapura,
and brought back troops of elephants together with much spoil.
Then comes the spiritual descent of his guru Sripala", (who is highly praised,
his commentaries and mastery of logic being specially mentioned), to whom he
made a grant for a Jaina basadi. We bear no more of this young man after
this period. In Ak. 32, dated 1136, wo find the senior crowned queen was
Bammala-Devi. She was of the Pallava family (see Ng. 3, Vol. IV). Bl. 117
also of 1136, contains a reference to the Kalamukha sect, who were of the
Parvvatavali. But the main part of the inscription is taken up with the praises
of the jeweller citizens young and old (mamgara-bala-unddha-nakharahgal) of
the three capitals (bidu) Dorasamudra, Beluhur and Vishnusamudra. These
were Halebid, Belur and perhaps Keresante (see Kd. 88 to 93, Vol. VI).
Among other epithets they claim to be bees at the lotus feet of Manikya-bhatta
and others the fifty-one Sarvvajnas, born in the race of Nittiri-vira; attainers
of Vira-Balancha perfection; as if obtainers of a boon from Varanagala-Ganesyadeva
who had uprooted daily rites; obtainers of a boon from the goddess
Sarada of Kasmir; emigrants from Ahichhatra; and so on. They granted
certain dues for their god Manikesvara. Ak. 144 of 1137, describes Barikapura
on one side and Talavanapura on the other as the capitals of the kingdom,
and Vishnuvarddhana, it is said, performed the tuld-purusha. Bl. 202
says that the king crossed over the Tungabhadra and laid siege to the fort of
Hanungal at the end of 1138. Hn. 114 of 1139, when the king was at Dorasamudra,
contains some account of a fight with the army of Jagadeva. In
On. 199 and 200, of the same year, the king was at Bankapura and made a
grant for the temple erected by the Changalva king's purdnika. Bl. 236 is a
curious inscription in which the tailors of Dorasamudra unite to grant certain
dues for the god KusumeSvara of the palace. Ak. 68 mentions Bammala-
DSvi's riding-school. In Ak. 18, dated 1140, the king was in his capital of
Bankapura, and a list is given of the provinces he ruled. He died in 1141 at
Bankapura (see dm. 96, Vol. VI). Ak. 110 of 1142, and even Hn. 65, so
late as 1149, claim to be of his reign, but this must be a mistake. The former
1) There must be exaggeration in making him so young at these times.
2) In the course of this the following valuable information is given.— Vimalachandra was guru
to the Pallara king; Srivijaya, to the Ganga king Butuga, Vadiraja, to the emperor Jayasimha-
De>a; Ajltasena, to Ereyanga-Deva.
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