inscriptions in the hassan district

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Jayagondapura, of the learning of its Brahmans, and of Nagadeva, Handeva
and Balluga. Here follow a great number of names of donors and what
they gave, to provide for the perpetual lamp of the god Siridhara.
Then come particulars of a division of land made by Hiriyabetta-Jiya
among his sons,
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Date 1186 A. D
Praise of Sarabhu. Usual account of the Hoysala descent
When (with usual and other titles) Hoysala vira-Ballala-Deva was in the
residence of Dorasamudra, ruling the kingdom in peace and wisdom: —
Dwellers at his lotus feet, were Mahadevarasa and the forty great men (or
body-guard) of Kalu-Malleya; to describe whose greatness- — (their praises).
Praise of the beauty of Kuruvakka. Its gauda was Ereyamma-Gaunda. Also
Muddarasa received from the people of Kuruvakka a gaundike Like a father
and mother to all these people was the senabova Bittiyanna (his family
desciibed). Bittiyanna built a temple of Biresvara; and (on the date specified),
Mahadevarasa, with Kaluva-Malleya and others, his forty great men, made for
it a grant of land (specified). Usual final verses.
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Date 1209 A. D.
Praise of Sambhu. Obeisance to Mahadeva.
Praise of Ballala, and of his father Narasimha and his mother Echale
When (with usual titles), a fever of fear to Chola, Malava and Gurjjara,—
vira-Ballala-Deva, putting down the evil and upholding the good in the whole
world, was in the residence of Hallayur, ruling the kingdom of the world in
peace and wisdom: —
A dweller at his lotus feet was Ballala-Deva's other half, the senior queen
Uma-Devi, whose greatness was as follows: — (her praise) With a well filled
and beautiful tank, surrounded by acacias and areca palms, so as to open the
eyes of the Lakshmi of woods; with growing sandal and rice-fields, — among
the beautiful places in this earth, Kalikatti-nad shone conspicuous, with its
temples. (With praises) all the subjects and farmers of Kalikatti in the
Magare Three Hundred, the Jagati-kottali and Jeda-gottali being present, to
Hodeya-Bittayya, son of the promoter of the senior queen and crowned consort
Uma-Devi's kingdom, the great minister Kumara-Panditayya-dannayaka, on
acoount of his having built a virgin tank to the north of the Mulasthana-
Kalideva temple and founded a town in his name, was given an urnbali (on
the date specified). Description of the land. Usual final verses.
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