Page:The Indian Antiquary, Vol. 4-1875.djvu/217

 201 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [JtTLT, 1875. bbada-basti, ' the Jain temple of the sixty columns.' On the wall to the left of the S. entrance to the shrine there are two short and very well preserved inscriptions in the Old ■esc- eharaeti r.< and languages. No. 2: — Tiir upper one is as follows : — [ 1 ] hi [II] c&fc^tfadtfjsgriorfjBWifcrJwetfjS? [ I ] fyl'SJi&rpXvz- [4] fiedaif^^iS-rioBrid^rfaii ^Xiio [5] 3^tf 3>{£ k ^&&$&> d^-8^XOT^5A- [6] 3 09»l3&e*4;j dsfe^r^y)* ft^Etew^- [7] ri^^&^qtcrti^Ji^ao^^a atf^ri&,850rf,Tte3d ( i- [9] So^jasprssJj ^^^^^[od^^ii^FslacBWijas^^tfjcpjB^Pae] Translation,— " Be it well! Reverence to Sambhu*, who is made beautiful by a ohoum which is the moon that lightly rests upon his lofty head, and who is the foundation-pillar for the erection of the city of the three worlds ! Hail ! The Great Chieftain who has attained the five Mahdsabdas; the excellent snpreme lord of Banavasfpnra j he who has acquired the excellent favour of the god Jayantt-Madhu- kesvaraf ; he who has tho odour of musk : fchj three-eyed earth-born & he who is established in eighty-four cities ; he who has an eye in his forehead* ; the four-armedj ; he who is conse- crated with the rites of eighteen horsi known throughout the world; he whose infuri- ated elephants are bound to columns of crystal setup on the mighty summits of the long of mountains Himavan§ ; he who is ebarmmg hy reason of the excess of his greatness; [the ornament of the family of the great bng Mayilravarrnii,] the Kadaraba emperor." The inscription, which is unfinished, breaks off abruptly with the first part of the letter 'y' ; but, as it agrees almost word for word with lines 10 to 13 of No. 1, there can be no doabt that the continuation of line 9 was meant to be 1 •y*ravarmm«muhdmahipd{aknlibhd*h,m m h ' as in line 18 of No. 1. The emblems at the top of the stone,— very rudely cut, or, perhaps, fo t Javiiiitipura is an old name of Banav&si. .JTheMj MM family »ni-lition 3 r^ir.li,,^ Tril,V.I l£tnala .. damba who, according to the inscriptions of thetato Kadambas of Halsi, waa the founder of the family § In this parage the word 'Mkhori' kttiraen 'nndHt and Hkhara' •(vmi to be Huperflucrag : fa ii„ . in i, Gulhalji inscription there occurs the iWge T&J8 only marked out for engraving,— are : —In tho centre, a linga aud priest ; on their right, a cow and calf; and on their left, a figure of Basava, with some representation above it as to the meaning of which I ccmld not satisfy myself. iNo. 3:— The Jower inscription is separated by two blank stones from the preceding, with v rJrioh it seems to have no connexion. It con- sists of six lines of poetry, each line containing abotit twenty-three letters, and two letter, in the seventh line. The verses are in praise of a certain Simha or Singa; but there is no- thing to explain who he was, the verses have no meaning of importance, and the inscription contains no date. Nob. 4, 5, G, and 7. —In the interior of the same temple there are four inscriptions in the Old Canarese characters and language on stone* tablets let into the wall on the right aud left jnst outside the shrine. Three are on tho ■and, and one is on the left hand, as one Eftces the doorway of the shrine. No. 4 : —The higher dfthfl three on tho right hand consists of thirty-nine lines of about twelve lett. ri enrh mSb grante made to the god Naka,, radevaofBank;ip„ ra in the Piugala sa»h,o/sara, bemg the twelfth year of the reign of the t'lulukya long Bhui6kamalla.|l No. 5:— The next below consists of sixteen lines of about !2?*rf *»***. KiW'ainba inscriptions only. (J.'JnSf ! 0kja ** Btorfirtradu™ U ; i.e., *fa 1000