inscriptions in the hassan district

118 Arsikere Taluq.
And when the great minister, sarvvadhikari, head of the accountants,
Ketayyanna was governing Desavani;— the prabhus of Desavani in Nirugunda.
nad were Malla-avunda, Madi-gavunda, and heggade Muddaya (their praises).
Their guru Lakula-Sabadeva's son Gangarasi-pandita's spiritual son Tribhuvana-Sakti-pandita's
younger brother was Vama-Jiya (his praise).
When that great ascetic and his five sons, the eldest of whom was
Vamasakti-pandita, were in peace, — (on the date specified) at the time of the
eclipse of the moon, Jaitu-vaidya, the fifty householdeis of the village, and the
chief ? farmers, washing the feet of Vama-Jiya, made a grant of land (specified;
for the god Jaitesvara. Usual final verses,
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Date 1140 A D
Praise of sambhu. Praises of king Vishnu, who from Hima to Setu, and
again from Setu to Hima, subdued all the Kshatnyas in the sports of his valour.
When (with usual titles), death to the proud Ch6la feudatory, a lance to
the head of.. . , a lion to the elephant-herd Chera, a Bhairava of the final
deluge to the family of the Pandya king, plunderer of the Chola army (or
capital), — with these and all other titles, the maha-mandalesvara, capturer of
Kanchi, Vikrama-Ganga, Vishnuvarddhana-Hoysana-Deva, uniting the Gangavadi
Ninety-six Thousand, the Banavase Twelve Thousaud, the Palasige Twelve
Thousand and the two Six Hundreds under the shadow of his sole umbrella,
was ruling the kingdom, being in his own capital Bankapura:—
Dwellers at his lotus feet, were Chandahaia-Jetti and other Jettis (named);
and when the three sons born to Deva-Jetti, were, by the favour of Vishnuvarddhana-Deva,
governing this Undigeyahalu and Balavarivanahalli, Muni-
Jetti erected this temple (? of Krishna). Its praises And'in order that his
mother and father might obtain^ment, he made a grant foi the god, washing
the feet of Mallikarjuna-paridita of Nidugatta, (on the date specified).
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Date? 1226 A,D.
Praise of Sanibhu. (On the date specified) the plantain garden of 25
kamba, belonging to the gaudike of Chandra-Gauda, which he had formerly
sold to certain Jettis (named), at 3 gadyana per kamba, for 75 gadyana,—
Chavude-Jiya and Nanne-Jetti bought, and giving to Chavuda-gauda 1 gadyana
5 hana that he might defray all taxes that might ensue, granted the garden,
free of all imposts, for the goddess Nimbaja. Praise of the donors
Signatures.