inscriptions in the hassan district

Belur Taluq, 83
two; to be addicted to others' wives, three; to give up refugees, four; to leave
suppliauts unsatisfied, five, to forsake those to whom he is bound, six; to live in
tredchory to his lord, seven : — those are the seven narakas (or hells) says Ganga.
To Gaiiga-chamupati and to Nagala-Devi was born a son, Boppa-chamupa
(his praises) *
(To describe) the line of his guru: — From Gautama-ganadhara was
descended the celebrated Maladhan-deva, of the Kondakundanvaya. That munt-
svaia's disciple Subhachandra-deva was the guru of Boppa, the possessor of
the valiant qualities of Ganga-Raja. A moon in raising the tide of the ocean the
Jina-dharmma, achtiryja of the Ganga-mandala, was Piabhachandra-deva-
saiddhantika. He was Boppa-Deva's guru for divine worship
This Jma temple, which even Jalajabhava (Brahma) could not excel in
diawing, carving and moulding, and which shone like the silver mountain
(Kailasa), an ornament to the earth, —did the lord Boppa-Deva erect in the
middle of Dorasamudra, the greatest of royal cities As a memoiial of Ganga-
Raja's death, Boppa set up the god (on the date specified), the consecratoj
being Nayakirtti-siddhanta-chakravartti, (his praises)
After the consecration of this Drohagharatta Jinalaya' of the sri-Mula-
sangha, Desiya-gana, Pustaka-gachchha, Kondakundanvaya and Hanasoge-bah,
when the priests (indrar) took the consecrated food (seshe) to Vishnuvarddhana-
Deva at Bankapuia, —at that time, the king Vishnu having defeated and slain
Masana, who fell upon him in battle with unequalled forces, and seized the
whole of his empire, — and to (the queen) Lakshmi-mahadevi a son having
been born, vuth the qualities of Dasaratha and Nairnsha, (and other praises), -
Vishnu-Deva being thus filled with joy on account of both his victory and
the birth of a son, seeing the priests who had brought the sandal water and
consecrated food from the consecration of the god Parsva, ho ordered them to
approach and rising to meet them, saluted them with joined hands to his
forehead, and took the sandal water and consecrated food, saying, "By the
merit of the consecration of this god I have obtained both a victory and the
birth of a son, and have been filled with joy". He theiefore gavo to the god
the name of Vijaya-Parsva, and to his son the name of Vijaya-Narasimha-Deva.
And for the prosperity of his son and for the promotion of universal peace
he made a grant of Javagal in Asandi-nad, and various other grants (specified),
to provide for the ceremonies and anointing at the three seasons of the god
Vijaya-Parsva and the twenty-four Tirthanathas, the repair of their basadi,
and the food of the ascetics.
And the oilman Dasa-Gaunda made a grant of land for the god to the
priest Santi-deva. Also at the uttardyana sankramana, Dasa-Gaunda and
Rama-Gaunda made other grants (specified) to the priest Santayya for the
eight kinds of ceremonies of the god Parsva Praise of Santa.
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