inscriptions in the hassan district

Belur Taluq 79
120
Date 1276 A.I).
(On the date specified) when Hoysala vira-Narasimha-Devarasa's groat
minister Mali-Deva-dannayaka, and ? Deva-Raya-Rama-Deva's chief general
Saluva-Tikkama were ? encamped in Belavadi, that Mah-Deva-dannayaka's
chief commander of the horse. ..
121
Date ? about 420 A. D
Be it well. Victorious is Han, the destroyer of the strength and valour of
the mighty Daitya chiefs, assumer of the forms of preserver, creator and
destroyer of the world.
Purified by meditation on Svami-Mahasona and the group of Mothers 1 ),
of the Manavya-gotra, sons of Hariti, fully versed in the views they had adopted
on the sacred writings, (were) the Kadambas, of whom (was) Knshnavarmmadharmma-maharfija,
performer of the horse sacnfice, famed for victory in
many arduous wars, learned and modest. Begotten by him on the daughter
of Kaikeya, was Vishnuvarmma-dharmma-maharaja, in the training of horses
and elephants and in the use of the bow the equal of Vatsa-Raja, Indra and
Arjjuna, proficient in grammar and logre. The son begotten by him was Simhavarmma,
maharaja of the Kadambas, bravo and skilled in many (branches of)
learning.
By his son, Krishnavarmma-maharaja, who by courage, strength and valoui
has acquired the wealth of the kingdom, holding Brahma as supremo, skilled
in rightly protecting his subjects, free from avarice, — in the seventh year of
his increasing and victorious reign, in the month Karttika, on the fifth (day)
of the last fortnight, under the constellation Jyeshtha, — to him named Vishnusarmma,
of the KauSika-gotra, fully versed in the veda, devoted to the six
rites, preserver of the perpetual sacred fire, — for the attainment of his own
welfare--was given, in the Vallavi-vishaya, the village named Kodanallur,
with pouing of water, free from all (taxes) On the advice of the chief man
of the Tuviyalla-gotra, possessed of goodness and liberality, devoted to the
performance of his own proper rites, revered by kings, donor of a thousand
cows, Haridatta-Sreshthi, was it done.
In this matter are the slokas uttered by Manu: —By many kings has the
earth been enjoyed, Sagara and others: whosesoever was at any time the laud, his was then the rewa
maintain another's difficult: but of giving or maintaining (anothei's gift),
than giving more meritorious is maintaining (another's gift). Whoso seizes on
1)The six mothers of Svami-Mahasena, the god of war, who are identified with the Pleiades