inscriptions in the hassan district

184 Arsikere Taluq.
To describe his valour: —Though Chola laid siege to it for twelve years,
was it captured? The report came that he had abandoned it,—when, mounting
on it but one cubit sufficed to bring that Uchchangi into the possession of
this mighty one (baH-dl), as if taken in sport, — thus did the heavenly choristers
praise the king Ballala, who thence acquired the name Giridurgganialla,
A dweller at his lotus feet.—Be it well. With all titles, great master of
the robes, supreme favourite, champion over traitors to his lord, champion
over the envious, . Kusadallayya of Motta, (on the date specified), built a
tank to the west of the breached tank of Hirevalahalh in Nirugunda-nad,— on
which Mallayya-Nayaka of Bagavala and a number of others (named) gave
him 8 salage of rice-land under the tank as a kere-godage, out of which 1 salage
was for Kamaya of the dehdra. And Mada-jiya granted for the god 2 sa. under
the tank Usual final verges.
179
Date 1098 A. D.
In the reign (or kingdom) of (with usual titles) Binayayta-Hoysaja-Deva,
(on the date specified), Bicha-gavunda (his descont) erected this Sivalaya, and
made for the god grants of land (specified). Usual final vers?.
The priest of this temple, Somarasi-pandita [composed] this sasana. . .
rachan's son Manikachan wrote (or engraved, bareda) it.
180
Date ? 1215 A.D.
Praise of Sambhu dasa . . janayya's writing (baraha). Obeisance to
the gurus.
Sala at the muni's exclamation of hoy Sala slew the tiger, whence ho became
Hoysala and that name was acquired by the Yadava-kula To Narasnhha and
his patta-mahadevi fichala-Devi was born vira-Ballala.
Be it well. When, (with usual titles and Vishnuvarddhana's conquests),
the pratapa-lIoysana-chakravartU vira-Ballala-Deva *was in the residence of
Dorasamudra, ruling the kingdom in peace and wisdom:—-
A dweller at his lotus feet, Ereyamrggade, for the god Somanatha which
he had set up in the temple of Bagevala in Nirugunda-nad, in the presence of
various gaudas (named) and all the subjects, (on the date specified), made
grants of laud (specified). Names of priests of the temple. And Malleyanayaka's
brother-in-law Bommeya having built the southern sluice of the tank
east of the town, he was granted 1 sa 10 ko of rice-land under the tank.
Usual final verses.