inscriptions in the hassan district

XX INTRODUCTION.
Devi, but Ak. 62 says she was a terror to co-wives and plucked up the families
of the bill-chiefs by the root. This inscription mentions a number of munis
who were upholders of the Lakulagama-samaya 1) , delighting in reverence to the
Ekkoti munindras, and adherents of the Kalamukhas. On. 254 gives a farther
account of her. Hn. 54 introduces the piriy-arasi Ketala-Devi. On. 209 of
1178, is the first that mentions his capture of the Uchchangi hill so often
afterwards referred to. Its extent was such as to enclose the three worlds,
while its summit soared into the sky higher than the king of birds, —yet he
took it without effort through Pandya's terror, as if playing at tossing up
pebbles. Bl. 137, 175, Ak. 178, say that Chola laid siege to it for twelve
years without success and abandoned it as hopeless. On hearing which, Ballala
attacked it and mounting on it but one cubit was sufficient to bring it into
his possession. From this event he acquired the name Giridurgga-malla, and
as it was a Saturday (Sanivara) when the conquest was effected (siddhisidudu)
he also took the title Sanivara-siddhi 2) . Bl. 72 says that Uchchangi had a
moat like Patala, was as broad as the eight cardinal points and as high as
the sky, and was thus famed in the three worlds. Yet he captured it. But
when Pandya threw himself on his mercy, he had favour on him and restored
him his kingdom. Bl. 176 also says that when a crore of warriors attacked
him, he fell upon them by himself in the battle of Ummadur, and like a boy at
play, with his sword created a sea of blood. On. 220 says that the flames of
his valour charred black the Cholika territory, turned to ashes the Nolambavadi
and Banavasi countries, made Gutti as if buried, and covered up with
smoke Panungal and the mountainous Alvara-kheda. Cn. 160 refers to his
learned minister Chandramauli and his beautiful wife. Ak. 88 commences
with a very singular invocation of "the Brahmeya who wanders at night".
Ak. 22 contains an interesting account of some merchants of Brahman descent,
one of whom imported horses, elephants and pearls in ships by sea and sold
them to kings, and another who transported goods from the east to the west
and from the north to the south and vice versa. Ak. 48 describes how the
jagahs made Kalikatte into a city, on Arasiyakere being assigned to others.
The inscription was composed by the poet Santinatha. Ak. 57 is an example
of the way in which each successive king is mentioned as if piesently ruling,
which is often met with among the Hoysala inscriptions. With Ak. 93 of
1189 we first meet with the queen Uma-Devi. In Ak. 85 she is represented
as ruling the kingdom, and in Ak.40 appears again in 1209. Ag. 79 shows
the minister Machimayya in 1189 ruling Konga-nad, which from Ag. 81
appears to have consisted of two Two-thousands. The final verses of the
inscription include one which prays that the Vibhtshana reign may continue
1)An account of Lakula will be found in Vol. VII in connection with Balgami, where he was settled.
2) But these titles belonged to the Kajachurya king Bijjana before this.