Ablūr, Sōmēśvara temple, about A.D.1200, F

Editor: Antonella Santoro.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKarnataka00006.

Hand description:

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Language: Kannada.

Repository: Karnataka Inscriptions (tfb-karnataka-epigraphy).

Version: (e89d44b), last modified (36b59df).

Edition

⟨1⟩ śrī-brahmēśvara-dēvaralli ēkāntada-rāmayya basadiya jinan oḍḍavāgi taleyan aridu haḍeda ṭāvu || saṁka-gāvuṇḍaṁ basadiyan oḍeyal īyade āḷuṁ-kudureya ⟨2⟩ n oḍḍiralu ēkāntada rāmayyaṁ kādi geldu jinan oḍedu liṅga pratiṣṭeyaṁ māḍida ṭāvu

Translation by Fleet1899_F

(1–2) This is the place representing how, at [the temple of] the illustration god Brahmēśvara laid a wager, at the cost of the Jina of the shrine, of cutting off his head and received it back again. When Saṅka-gāvuṇḍa would not let him destroy the shrine of the Jina arraying his men and horses against him, Ēkāntada Rāmayya fought and vanquished them. He smashed the Jina and installed the liṅga [in its place].

Bibliography

First edited in Elliot1825-1832

Second edited in Fleet1899_F (EI 5-F).

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