inscriptions in the hassan district

164 Arsikere Taluq.
118
Date 1194 A D.
Praise of Sambhu. The lord of the three worlds, his auspicious head
crowned with jewels, the beloved of Mridani,— Mahesa Malhkarjjuna do I adore.
An ocean of nectar to the meritorious stream the amorous beauty of Lakshmi,
the subjoctof moditation to Sanakaand othet munis, — Madhusudana do 1 adore.
Usual account of the origin of the Yadava race from Yadu, and genealogy
of the Hoysala kings, down to Ballala.
Be it well. When, (with usual Hoysala and Chalukya titles), the strongarmed
chakravaitti Hoysala vira-Ballala-Dovarasa, protecting the whole world
under his sole umbrella, was in the residence of Baguli, ruling the kingdom
of the earth —
A dweller at his lotus feet, (with various epithets), was the droha-ghmatta
(a millstone to traitors), Macha-chamupa. That dandanatha's younger brother
was Madhusudana-dandanatha, whose descent was as follows —A moon to the
pure qcoan the Bhiiiadvaja-kula was Madhuha, son of the Brahman jewel Dasiraja
To the lord Madhusudana and to Jakkala-Devi was born Ddsiraja, (his praise).
To him and his wife Nalale was born Madhusudana, the ornament of chamupatis.
The treasury being filled with wealth; the city with elephants, horses, women
and jewels, the agrahara aud pura with learned Brahmans, all the land with
wealth of cows, increase of grain, and crowds of population;—the body of the
fortune of Ballala's kiugdom throve, so that Madhuha-chamCipa obtained great
iame, Devoted to the worship of the lotus feet of Siva; satisfying the desires
of the learned; rejoicing in the bestowal of lands, cows, houses, food, gold,
vngins and many other kinds of gifts, gratifying the wants of all supplicants,—
this earth was as in a continual festival through the great dandesa Madhuha.
His younger brother was !svaia-deva; (his praise): and his younger biother
was Madhava, (his piaise).
For the increase of all merit in his ruler's kingdom, Madhuha created the
agiahara of Madhusudanapura, a great glory to his family. Praise of its
Biahmans With clusters of groves, with well filled channels, with large
tanks like seas, surrounded with growing crops, with crowds of people, and
with splendid temples, — the beauty of this pura was such as to open the eyes.
In it, with the approval of the geneial Muchiraja, Madhusudana-dandanayaka
erected a temple, lofty and glittering like Dhanada's mountain, for Malhkarjjuna,
Madhusudana and the Sun.
Be it well. The great minister, ruler of seventy-two officials, the dandanayaka
Machirajayya, for the daily offerings of the gods Malhkarjjuna and
Madhusudana of the three pinnacled temple which his younger brother
Madhusudana-dandanayaka had erected in the agiahara of Madhusudanapura