inscriptions in the hassan district

208 Channaraifapatna Taluq.
196
Date? 1398 A.D.
Be it well. (On the date specified), when . .. Hatihara-uatha was ruling
the kingdom of the world: —in the war botwoen ? Dannala-devi and Ramanna
Hemmadi, Boraya-Nayaka fell in the fight at Marayavuru. A Inra-yal was
erected for hira ? at a cost of 12 ga Made by acharyya Gundoja.
197
Date 1223 A.D.
Praise of Sambhu and the Boar.
Usual account of the rise and genealogy of the Hoysalas, to Ballala's son
Narasimha, who is described as the destruction of the Magara king, the saviour
of Chola. Obeisance to Siva.
His fame spread to the four oceans and his commands were worn as
garlands on the heads of all kings beyond the points of the compass, when
raised to the throne, he mounted and sat upon it, the hundred-fold hero
Narasimha, the glory of the Yadu-kula, the light of the Soma-vamsa. A royal
swan in the lotus-pond the council of that Narasimha-Deva was Amita-chaminatha,
a Hanuma among raya-dandanayakas. He had the bravo Ballala as
his grandfather, sprang from the pure womb of Padmambika, and his father
was born m the line of the famous Kannva, the Bharadviija. He had three
brothers, — Vamarasa, Lakumarasa and Amaia-dandadhisa, and of those three,
the eldtst, Vamaiasa begot the son Amita-chamupain His string of names
was as follows, (a great number of epithets are given, including) maha-prachanda-dandanatha,
head-jewel of the Vaji-variisa, Boppa's warrior, Hanumanta
in pounding heroes, — Amita-chamupa, long may he live. So great was his
liberality that the tree of plenty was put to shame and did penance to recover
its reputation; (details given of the penance) Praise of his bravery. Amita,
the king Narasimha's pounding (peshana) Hanumau, m valour and bounty
having established his fame from Hima to Setu,— from that father his son
acquired the renown of valour, — Ballala-dandadhipa. Amita was like the
discus weapon of Narasimha, and Ballala-deva like its cutting edge. Farther
praises in the same strain, stating that father and son were the chief supporters
of the king. And Vfunarasa's son Amita-dandanayaka Hanuraan erected in
Sivara a temple for all the gods such that it seemed as if a creation of Aja,
Han and Hara.
Description of the ocean. In the earth surrounded by the ocean is Janibudvipa,
in the iniddlo of which is Metu, south of which is the pleasant Bharatavarsha.
In it is the Kuntala-desa, in which, by nature a cow of plenty, is the
Hoysala-nad; its praises.