inscriptions in the hassan district

xxx INTRODUCTION.
tried to escape when he was placed at the head of the army. Having conquered
the Keralas, Taulavas, Andhras and ? Kutakas, he seized their wealth and
gave it to his king. Dragging the elephant-like Saipa, Patheya and other
proud Turushkas along by their hair in battle, he tied them up in his stables
like monkeys; and besides them, seized by the throat the two great tigers
known as Jyeshtha and Kanishtha. He set up pillars of victory in the interior
of all the 56 countries (named), and restored the grants which the Hoysana
king Vishnuvarddhana-Bitti-Deva had made for this his family-god. He also
rebuilt with seven storeys the gopura over the entrance, which Ganga-Salar,
the Turushka of Kallubarage, had come and burnt, and set up a golden kalasa
at its summit.
Hn. 133 brings us to Deva-Raya, who, it says, was crowned on the 7th of
November 1406 In Hn. 18 he is called Bukka (II). Hn. 16 is a record of
Mallikarjuna, and Bl. 136, of Vinipaksha
In Hn. 6 we have the genealogy of the second dynasty. Its origin is traced
to Tiuima, renowned among the Tuluva kings. From hira sprang Isvara,
whose wife was Bukkaina, and their son was Narasa. Quickly damming the
Kaven when in full flood, he crossed over and seized the enemy alive, took
possession of the kingdom and of the city Srirangapattana, and erected a pillar
of victory. Having conquered Chera, Chdla and Pandya, together* with the
lord of Madhura, the fierce Turushka, the Gajapati king and others, — he
imposed his commands upon all the famous kings from the Ganges to Lanka,
and from the rising to the setting sun. In Raniesvara and other chief sacred
places he made the sixteen and other great gifts.
From Tippaji and Nagaia-Devi were born to him Nrisimha and Knshna-
Raya. These two ruled successively, and a list is given of the great gifts they
had made and of the places in which they were bestowed. The inscription,
like many others of the same high-flown style, was composed by Sabhapati.
Hn. 13 informs us that Krishna-Raya marched against Gajapati in 1516 and
set up a pillar of victory on the bank of the Krishnaveni. The inscription
records the grant of an agrahara by a chief named Dhananjaya, but concludes
with an extraordinary and unusual verse, whose -only connection is that it
contains the name Dhananjaya. But my friend the late Pandit Rajagdpalacharya
of Chik-Ballapur informed rae that the original of the verse is different,
and is given in the Bhoja-prabandha as follows, among some relating to Asoka: —
kutra tvam chalitosi Narada vada kshonyam kim asty adbhutam
Sambho'bhun marutam ruraasya vijaya-prasthana-dhuli-bharaih
nitASoka-vipanna-natha-virahodhhutaih punah purnataih
jalp6 murchhalati bhutale jana-kritas tad-vairi-kantaSnbhih ||
Where hast thou been wandering Narada ? say, what is there wonderful in
the earth ? Sambhu, the ocean was turned to dry land by the dust from his