inscriptions in the hassan district

114 Arsikere Taluq.
5
Date 1194 A. D
Praise of Sambhu Obeisance to Vinayaka
Usual account of the descent of the Hoysalas, to Ballala To describe
his valour: When he fought Jaituga, who was with an army in the great
forties, which, with high ramparts, lofty bastions, mounted with astonishing
Hag-staves, even combined masses could not attack and escape, — he soon
raptuied Lokkigundi,— the king Ballala.
When (with usual titles) Hoysala vtra-Ballala-Deva was in the residence of
Dorasumudia, ruling the kingdom of the world in peace and wisdom:—A
dweller at his lotus feet, Aney.i-mavanta's greatness was as follows — (here
follows a genealogical list, as in No 4 above). To Chattaya and Malavve was
horn J.ivanaya-mavanta, (his prarse) He, in order that happiness might accrue
to his mother and father, set up the god Vinuyaka in front of the town of
Kolagunda, and in the presence of the local chiefs (named) and all the
subjects, (on the date specified) made a grant for the god, washing the feet of
Malhka-Jiyya.
6
Date 1084 A.D
In the 9th year of the Chalukya-Vikiama-klla, etc., when Tnhhuvanamalla
Vinayaditya [putting down the evil and upholding the good in] the Gaugavadi
Ninety-six Thousand, was ruling the kingdom in peace and wisdom * —
A dweller at his lotus feet, entitled to the five big drums, the mahasavanta,
(with various epithets), receiver of a boon from Tiipurahara, worshipper
of the feet of Poysala-Deva, an umbrella to five hundred, Bammayya's
junior uncle, in the battle between the Nenlige perggade Alamayya and
Nolamba at Nolambanakere, slew his head-seirant and his horse and attained
to the paradise of heroes.
8
Dak 1286 A. D
Invocation of Naiayana.
When, with all titles, Hoysala vira-Narasimha-DSvarasa was ruling the
kingdom of the world: —in the year Prabhava (1267 A. D.), Ballanna, son of
the mister of the robes Kutana-heggade, made over as a gift the Chennakeiava
temple erected by Kutana-heggade in Malleyanahajli, a hamlet of Mosale, and
the grants for the god (specified) to Siddanna, son of the Vaidya Devapilleyanna,
and Devanna, son of Chude, with the consent of his wife, son and relatives, of
his own will, in the presence of the raja-guru Rudrasakti-deva and others of
the congregation, and the farmers of Mosale. Witnesses,