inscriptions in the hassan district

126 Arsikere Taluq.
and a tank, — on which, Boya-Nayaka and all the people, farmers and
porters, washing the feet of Komara-Singi-pandita, upholder of the Vagilakulagama-sameya,
made grants (specified) for the god. Usual final verses.
Praise of Icha-Bova,
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Date 1227 A, D.
Om. Obeisance to Siva. Worshippers of the feet of the 170 Brahmans of
VYjaya-Narasimhapura, which is Kahkatte, the jagah kottalts contributed to a
fund for the perpetual lamp of the god Nilesvara as follows (on the date
specified). (Here follow 106 lines containing names etc. of donors and their
gifts.)
Verses spoken by Bachanna (praise of the donors).
The sasana was composed by Bachanna,
48
Date? 1189 A.D.
Obeisance to Mahaddva. Praise of Sambhu.
In the form of the god of love, the acme of all the good qualities of his
family, arose the sole hero in the world, Vinayaditya. (Omitting laudations)
His wife was Keleyabarasi. Their son was Ereyanga, whose wife was fichale-
Devi, and they had three sons, — Ballala, Vishnu and Udayaditya. First
acquiring the wealth of the Poysala kingdom, and holding it with the strength
of his arm, as his power grew, his commands were issued beyond the points
of the compass, and seizing by force Talakadu, he became the first to the
Ganga kingdom, — the upraiser of the Yadu-vadisa, Vishnu-bhupalaka. The
Tulu country, Chakragotta, Talavana-pura, Uchchangi, Kalala, the seven
Males, Kanchi, Kongu, the terrible Hadiya-ghatta, Bayal-nad, the Nilachala
hill-fort, the excellent Rayarayapura, Tereyur, Koyatur, Gondavadi-sthala,—
all these he took with a frown, this mighty and powerful king Vishnu. His
eldest son, by Lakshmambike, was Narasingha, whose wife was Echale, and
she bore Ballu, or vira-Ballala; (his praises, describing him as) a lion to the
elephant Pandya.
When, (with various epithets, including) an elephant to the lotus garden
the Pandya-kula, — with these and all. other titles, the maha-mandalSsvara,
(with epithets belonging to Vishnuvarddhana), Samvara-siddhi, Gindurggaraalla,
the nissanka-pratapa-Hoysala vira-Ballala-Deva, was protecting the
whole earth, putting down the evil and upholding the good, and was in the
residence of Dorasamudra, ruling the kingdom in peace and wisdom: —