inscriptions in the hassan district

Arsikere Taluq 167
deep students of science, supreme great poets. Among them (omitting
laudations), a Kasyapa, was Nrjananda-deva. His wife was Hittavve His
younger brother was Sankara-dova, whose wife was Satavve Their younger
brother was Gopala-deva, whose wife was Sinyavve Their father was Ananda-
bodha-deva-munindra of Sindavige, whose wife was Changavve. Her father was
Govinda-pattavarddhana.
Be it well. When, (with usual titles), the uprooter of the Magara king,
the ostabhsher of the Chola kingdom, the pratapa-chakravarth Hoysala, vira-
Narasimha-Devarasa, in order to make a victorious expedition over Paudya,
was in Ravitadtinakuppa, ruling the kingdom of the world —m a discourse on
dharmma in an assembly held m the porch (or on the terrace,—dehdra), the
chaplain [Nijananjdisvara-bhatta, Saiikanna and Gopanna [resolved to] set up
a god in the name of their father the svami of Sindavige. On which (tho king)
saying, "You do so in Somanathapura, which is Haruvanahajh",—those
Brahmans, approaching him, and obtaining a grant of land as an endowment,
caused a temple to be erected, and in the Saka year 1156, Jaya, etc, set up
the god Lakshmi-Narasimha, provided vessels and ornaments, and for the
offerings to the god mado over the land (specified) which they had received at
- the hands of the emperoi Narasiinha-Deva.
And at the same time, the accountant Visvanatha-deva, a follower (dasa) of
the svami of Sindavige, made a grant of land (specified) for it. And Vedartha
Varjanatha-bhatta, a follower of the svami, made a grant (specified) for it
And in the year Manmatha, the gioat minister Mayideva-dannayaka made a
giant (specified) for it
And in the same year all the Brahmans of the immemonal agrahata
Somanathapura, which is Haruvanahalh, being assembled in a great council,
Nijesvaia-bhatta doing revcrence to those Brahmans, said, "Through your
favour I have set up the god Lakshmi-Narasimha in this land which you
favoured, its protection for ever is now in your hands". On which, they being
pleased, made grants of land (specified), and themselves came and set up the
boundary stones.
Moicover, when the Iloysala emperor Sovi-Devaiasa, being in Mangalada-
koppa on a victorious expedition over Kadava-Raya, was ruhug the kingdom
of the world:-—In the year Durmmukha, etc., at the time of making great
gifts at the sankramana, the senior inspectors of the jewel treasury, Rechanna
and Rayanna, and the chaplain Gopanna, representing that the god Lakshmi-
Narasimha set up by Nijesvara-bhatta in Somanathapura was worthy of a grant
from his favour, he granted the fixed rent payable by sasana from Lakshmi-
Narasimhapura, which is Kembola. Great good fortune. Usual final verses.
Anandabodha-prabhu's follower (dasa), ornament of the Ga. -kula, a necklet
for the throats of good poets, Somanatha-pandita composed (helularu) the verses.