inscriptions in the hassan district

52 Belur Taluq.
copper sasana, for the purpose of making an agrabara, the village Bommadi-
Banaur in Asandi-nad, which had been a temple endowment of the god Brahmalesvara,
but which the kings some time back had bought and added to the
treasury as a kuttu-vitti. And the 21 gadyana written in that sasaan a according
to each tenant, the Brahmans of the god Brahmalesvara agreed to pay to all
the Brahmans of Lakshmipuia which was Banavur, every year, in order to
provide for the purchase for that god Brahmalesvara of the offerings and
daily food, 1 kolaga of rice, 2 perpetual lamps, flowers, sandal, incense, daily
wave-lamps, and lines of ghi lights on the full moon of Vaisakha and Kaittika.
They also gave to Sayanna from their svamya 6 shares for the agrabara he
established. (Usual final verses.)
20
Date 1180 A.D.
Invocation of Han When (with usual titles) Hoysala vira-Ballala-Deva,
in order that the twelve kinds of grain in the treasury of the sole lord of all
the world, the god Vijaya-Narayana, and his own kingdom might increase
one by one for cows and Brahmans, — (on the date specified) erected a
kottdra,) giving it the name of Yakshesa bhandara.
21
Date 1709 A D.
Obeisance to Raman uja. (On the date specified) Srinivasa-Dasa, great
grandson of the senabhoga (named) of this place, disciple of Vanianacharyya,
newly built the kalydna-mantapa as an offering at the lotus-feet of the god
Chenua-Kesava
22
Date 1626 A.D.
Praise of Sambhu. (On the date specified) Murttiyappa-Nayaka and
Puttanna-Nayaka, servants of Krishnappa-Nayaka's (son). Venkatadri-Nayaka,
in order that merit might accrue to their grandfather, father and mother
(named), erected a kaisale of 26 ankanas for the god Chennaraya
24
Date 1298 A. D.
(On the date specified) the wood work in the dome of the Chenna-Klsava
temple having rotted, broken and fallen, the great minister Khandeya-Raya
and Someya-dannayaka, seeing it, said "This ruined wood-work must be