inscriptions in the hassan district

Channarayapatna Taluq 203
The king who was a Gindurgga-malla to his enemies, was it only one or two
fortresses that he hastily took? — Virata-raja's city, Kurugodu, the Matanga
lull, Dhorevadi, Gutti, Guttavolalu, Uddhare, Kaladi, Bandanikke, Balkuo,
Soratur, Erambarage, Ilaluve, Manuve, Lokkigondi.
Be it well. When, (with usual titles), the nissanka-pratiipa-chakravartti
Poysala vira-Ballala-Deva was in the residence of the royal city Dorasamudra,
ruling the kingdom of the world in peace and wisdom. —
A dweller at his lotus feet, (with various epithets, including) a jewel in the council of the empero
Macha His further praises, styling him the bikaiana-praudlia-pradhdnam,
Macln-Itaja.* Of the Karnnata-kula, which is like splendid earrings to the
three worlds, do not glonfy this one, that one, or the middle one as a purifier,
111 the council of Macui-Raja. To describe his descent-- Causing ecstasy in the
lady the Chalukya kingdom, an ornament of the Vasishtha-gotra, a moon to
the water-lilies the eyes of his wife Gauri, was the lord Ruddimayya, a chief
in the army. His son was Rama-deva, whose wife was Rajala-devi. And they
had three sons, Macharasa,'Narana-deva and Rudra And Macha's sons
were Kiriya-Rama, Siripayya, Narana-deva, and Kesiraja
The groat minister, (with other epithets), sarvadhikan, chiet of the karanas,
head-jewel of the Rig-veda, friend of poets, worshipper of the lotus feet of
the god Prasanna-Kesava,— the srikarana-heggade Machayya, (on the date
specified), made a grant in Aneganakeie, otherwise called the Kesavapura
agrahftra, in Kabhuhu-nad, of 2 hana per 100 gadyana of the 350 the fixed
first rent, as a sese-manya and ovata-kdrunya, to continue for ever, and made
it over to the Brahmans (possessed of all the usual ascetic virtues), in the
presence of the god Vajiesvara, doing worship to their feet, and with pouring
of water from the hand of vira-Ballala-Deva. (Hero follow details of the boundaries etc. of the villag
Jannayya's poetry, Davanna's writing, Mallovaja's engraving.
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Date 1252 A D.
(Nagatt chaiacteis)
6m. Obeisance to Siva. There was the Hoysala king, the ornamont of
heroes, the king Narasimha, son of king Ballala, (his praise) His son was
Soyi-Deva; (his praise). A distinguished Bharadvaja was Mallanna, who had
two sons, Appanna and Tikanna, through the favour of Somesa. The farther
particulars are written in the Karnnata language.
Be it well. Into the hands of (with usual Chalukya and Hoysala titles,
including) the uprooter of the Makara kingdom, the displacer of the Pandya
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