inscriptions in the hassan district

Channarayapatna Tatuq. 225
of land (specified) under it, to provide a chhatra in Nuggiyahalh for daily
feeding 12 Brahmans of all gotras. (Here follow details of the articles to bo
provided and their cost.) And Basavanna also enlarged the tank in front of
the town for the Brahmans, and built a stone embankment. Usual final verse
238
Date 1249 A D.
6m. Obeisance to Siva. May the lord of Sri-ever protect the earth, which
in the form of the Boar he raised up on his tusk, the ocean being her moist
girdle, the trees the hair of her body standing erect with ecstasy, the mountains
the supporting pillars.
Usual account of the rise of the Yadavas and genealogy of the Hoysalas,
to Soma. From his elephants continually piercing the clouds, they poured
forth their floods and filled the Tambraparnni river; while the numbers of
pearls scattered in it from the temples of his enemies' elephants were washed
down to the ocean and filled it with astonishment Descended in the line of
the hereditary ministers of his kingdom was Brabma-dandanayaka; his praises.
Their groves having lost their attraction, their towns and villages burnt, and
their chhatras ruined, being in distress, Brahma-senapati's enemies took refuge
under the scanty shade of trees in Lulaya-Lakshma-nagara, the branches of
which had been broken by the horns of buffaloes.
Thus Bommana-danna-yaka, for the gods Prasanna-Kesava, Narasimha and
Gopala, which he had set up (on the date specified) the year Parfxbhava, in
the agrahara of Vijaya-Somanatha-pura, which is Nuggeyahalli, that he had
established, and for the god Sadasiva which ho had set up in the year Kilaka,
made grants of land (specified). Details are given of the servants to be
employed and their pay, and the distribution of the proceeds of the land.
Usual final verses.
239
Date 1251 A D
May it be prosperous. (On the date specified), for the worship and other
affairs of the god Narasimha, Madana granted his ? allowance as watchman
Usual final verse.
240
Date 1714 A. D.
May it be prosperous. Be it well. (On the date specified), the local
syanabhaga Devapaiya's son Konapaiya's younger brother Vonkanna, in order
that his father and mother, brothers and other relatives might obtain union
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