inscriptions in the hassan district

Belur Taluq
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Date about 1200 A.D
His son was Narasimha, whose wife was Echala-Oevi They had a sou
Ballala, (His praises,) He, the emperor of the south, caused to be made ol
stone for Vrjaya-Narayana, latticed window, secure door-frame, door-lintel,
kitchen, ramp.uts, pavilion, and a pond named the Vasudeva-tirtha
Uchchangi, with a moat like Patala, as broad as the eight cardinal points,
high as the sky, extending in both directions, so that it was famed in the
three worlds, he captured; and again when Pandya claimed his shelter, had
favour on him and restored his kingdom: thus both in captuung and bestowing
did he win fame in the three worlds, — vita-Ballala-Deva
Written by the acharyya of writers, Sury)ana
(Signed) sri-Malaparol-gauda vira-Ballala-Deva.
(Granted) together with Kalahalli
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Date 1254 A.D.
(On the date specified) the pratapa-chakravai tti vira-Somcsvara-DeWarasa's
son Narasinga-Deva granted for the god Chenna-Kesava of Belur, Bikkigod in
Nekku-nad
(Signed) srt-Malaparol-ganda vira-Soraesvara-Deva
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Date 1261 A. D
Invocation of Han Usual account, in poetical form, of the rise of the
Yadu-vamsa In it was born Sala, the perfection of the merits of mankind,
on whose appearance the Earth, lamenting her widowed conditiou since the
departure of Sagara and other great emperors, forgot her grief That king
on a certain occasion going from Sasapun, performed obeisance to his familygoddess
Vasantiki, and approached the siddha-muui, when a ternble tiger
(its description) sprang forth. The muni exclaiming in the Karnnata language
hoy Sala, he slew the tiger with the sdldki (iron rod) which ho gave him. The
tiger, closing its eyes in death, went to svatga, and became the device on the
flag of the kings of that line, who acquired the name of Hoysala, as the
Yadavas from Yadu. From him was born (omitting laudations 1 *) Vinayaditya
From him Eyeyanga, From him Vishnu. From him Narasimha. His son
was Balla|a, named Gindurgga-malla. From him Nrisimba. His sword,
which he had soiled with the brains of Vikraraapala and Pavusa, he cleansed
') These are well composed in Sanskrit verso.
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