# Stone Inscription #2 of the time of Raṭṭa Prince Kārtavīrya IV: A.D.
1204

Amandine Wattelier-Bricout

Author of digital edition: Amandine Wattelier-Bricout

Contributor: Amandine Wattelier-Bricout

Identifier: DHARMA_INSVaria90012

Repository: Varia Epigraphy (varia-epigraphy)

File path: DHARMA_INSVaria90012.xml

Language: Sanskrit [Script (unspecified)]

Commit: 2026-09-29 11:15 (2438289), last modified 2026-09-29 11:15
(2438289)

## Summary

The previous identifier was INSEI13_3b.

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## Edition

⟨Page 1v⟩ ⟨59⟩

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Śālinī

sāmānyo ’yaṁ dharmma-se⟨60⟩tur nr̥pāṇāṁ
kāle kāle pālanīyo bhavadbhiḥ
sarvvān etān bhāvinaḥ pārtthivendrān
bhūyo bhūyo yācate rāmacaṁdraḥ∥

Anuṣṭubh

sva-dattāṁ para-dattāṁ ⟨61⟩ vā
yo hareta vasundharāṁ
ṣaṣṭi-varṣa-sahasrāṇi
viṣṭhāyāṁ jāyate kr̥miḥ∥

꩜

⟨62⟩

## Translation by Barnett 1915–1916

This general principle of pious foundations of kings is to be maintained
by you age after age : again and again Rāmacandra makes this entreaty to
all these future soveriegns. He who should appropriate land, whether
granted by himself or granted by others, is born as a worm in dung for
sixty thousand years.

## Commentary

Inscription engraved on a massive stone tablet; language : kanarese
except the prelude (verse 1) and two standing verses on lines 59-61;
content: closely connected to INSEI13_03a, i.e. it also records land
donations to the Jain temple named Raṭṭa-Jinālaya at Beḷgaum by
Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara Kārtavīrya IV, one of the Raṭṭa princes of Saundatti ;
Date : the same than EI13_03a Saturday, 25 december, A.D. 1204

## Bibliography

### Primary

[B] Barnett, Lionel D. 1915–1916. “Two Inscriptions from Belgaum, now in
the Bristish Museum.” EI 13, pp. 15–27. Item B, pages 27–36.