Svasti Yama-niyama- svāddhyāya-dhyāna-dhāraṇa-mōau nānuṣṭāṇa-parāyaṇaṁ nī ti-parāyaṇaṁ siṣṭ' iṣṭa-vandī-vaitā ḷikaṁ vidagdha-kavi-gamakai-vādi-vāgmi-ja nādhāraṁ ēkāṁga-vīraṁ bali-karṇṇa-sśivi-dadhī ci-cārudatta-jīmūtavāhana-samānō dāri raṇa-raṁga-sūtradhāri mūrtti nārāyaṇaṁ sarasvatiī-karṇṇa kuṇḍaḷ-ābharaṇaṁ śrīma dēva-pāda-paṁ kaja-brahmarar appa śrī nirūpi ta-mahāmātya-padarivī-virā jmāna mānōnnata prabhu-ma ntr-ōtsāha-sśakti-traya-saṁpa nnar appa śrīmat-perggaḍe nāyaka-pramukha karaṇav iḻdu sśaka-varṣa 980 neya viḷaṁbi-saṁvatsarada jyē ṣṭṭhada puṇṇame āditya-vāra dandu sūṇḍiy akkēsśvara-dēva rggav alliya sāsirbbargaṁ pā damūla-parivārakkaṁ koṭṭa sśāsana-maryyādey entendoḍe pūrvvadiṁ śrīmad-akkā-dēvi yar koṭṭa sśāsana-maryyā deyiṁ sarvva-bādhā-pari hāraṁ vāgeyā dharmmamaṁ sva-dharmmadiṁ pratipāḷisidava rgge sva-dharmmadiṁ naḍeyisida vargge kurukḍētra prayā ge vāraṇāsiyoḷ sāsirvvar brāhmaṇarggaṁ sāsira kavile y ubhaamukhi koṭṭa pphalam akkuv idan aḷidavargge nīipa tīrtthaṁgaḷoḷ sāsi rvvaru brāhmaṇaruvaṁ sāsi ra kavileyaṁ sāsirvvaru tapōdhanaran aḷida pātakava kku. śrī śrī śrī

Hail! Acting in concert, the administrative officials, headed by the Steward nāyaka, who is devoted to the major and minor disciplines, scripture-reading, meditation, spiritual concentration, and observance of silence, devoted to the conduct of policy, a supporter of the cultured, the agreeable, eulogists, heralds, witty poets, readers, disputants, and orators, a hero of the bodyguard, equal in nobility of soul to Bali, Karṇa, Śiva, Dadhīci, Cārudatta, and Jīmūtavāhana, a controller of the stage of battle, an incarnate Nārāyaṇa, adorned with the earrings of Sarasvatī, a bee at the lotus-feet of dēva, who is illustrious in the office of high minister appointed exalted in dignity, possessed of the three powers of lordship, counsel, and enterpriseThe three śaktis: see Kittel, s.v. śakti-traya, -

on Sunday, the full-moon of Jyēṣṭa of the Śaka year 980, the cyclic year Vilambin-

granted for the god Akkēśvara of Sūṇḍi and for the thousand persons of that establishment and for the staff and attendants a statutory constitution in the following terms:-

In the conformity with the statutory constitution previously granted by Akkā-dēvi, there shall be immunity from all imposts.

a Kanarese hortative formula of the usual type.

First edited in (EI 15-E2).

Re-edited here for DHARMA (ERC n° 809994) by Antonella Santoro (2025), based on the stone in situ.

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