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promoter of the Lakulagama-samaya. Hn. 139 of 1200, shows, the king in
residence at Vijayasamudra. This in Cn. 172 is called the rajadhdni or royal
city, and is said to be on the bank of the Tungabhadra. It is evidently the
same as the Vijayapur of Cn. 244, which is said to be Hallavur. He was
residing in the same place in 1205, 1209, 1210 and 1211 Cn 181, Ak. 40,
Cn. 172, 244, Ak. 137). I find a 'Hulloor' in the maps, on the Tungabhadra
in Raui-Bennur taluq, and this may be the place. Bl. 72 of about 1200, states
that the king had latticed winaows of stone and other accessories made for the
Belur temple. Cn. 161 of about the same date, records the death of Sripalayfigindra.
Cn. 206 brings to our acquaintance the senior queen Chdlamabadevi,
regarding whom we have a touching story. She was ruling Kembala,
when it was reported to her that some wicked persons at Be>ur had used hard
words about her. She thereupon ordered it to be attacked and Keta-malla
was killed in the assault. Feeling compunction for this, she sent two of her
chief men to the family, saying,—"We have caused pain to our children; go
and encourage them with our words, and in the presence of the sixty families
of Kembala console Keta-malla's son and make to him the grant of a rent-free
estate." Cn. 265 contains a curious account of an architect or builder named
Stotakachfiri, and his son who was a priest. Ak. 40 of 1209, speaks of Umadevi's
kingdom and says that her minister was Kumara-Panditayya, and Cn. 172
of the same date, says that he was the son of Ballaja and Uma-devi. But
Cn. 243 of 1210, states that Narasimha was the Yuvaraja, and praises the
beauty and virtues of his sister S6vala-d6vi. According to numerous inscriptions
Narasimha's mother was Padmala-Devi (see Bl. 116). Cn. 244 gives a long
account of the minister Kesava or Kesiraja, and states that his ancestors were
all ministers to the Hoysala kings, — Rama, to Vinayaditya; his son Sridhara,
to Ereyanga; his sons Mallideva, Damaraja and Kesavaraja, to Vishnuvarddhana;
Malla's sons Madhava, Bettarasa and Dama, to Narasimha; among
Betturaja's sons was Kesiraja. Hn. 31 shows the king in 1211 moved to
Raya. .pattana. Bl. 136 in 1217 speaks of the queen Ketala-Devi and her
kingdom. But Bl. 116 shows that the king also had a junior queen called
Abhinava-Ketala-devi. Hn. 61 shows the king encamped at Nidugal-durga 1)
in Sire-nad.in 1218. An account is given of a great officer of the king's who
was a raja by right in the Kasmira country. Cn. 211a of probably the same
year, places the king at Nallur-koppa. Ak. 77 of 1220, contains an account
of how RScharasa, the eminent councillor of the Kalachurya-kula, placed
himself under Ballala's protection, and hearing of the steadfastness of the
thousand families of Jains in Arasiyakere, he set up there the Sabasrakutachaityalaya
and endowed it, with the sanction of the king. Arasiyakere is
styled the southern Ayyavale. Its Brahmans were learned in the vedas, the
1) Now in Pavagada taluq.