194 Inam (/rants found in the Malnad. [Dec. 



that the Janamojaya alluded to must have been one of the Vijiyanngar kings. 

 Colebrooke denounced this grant as a forgery, and declared that the writing 

 was modern, and that the errors in the composition betrayed gross ignorance. 



4. The grant of the Bhimankatte Matha is dated in the 89th year of 

 the era of Yudishtira, who was the eldest of the five brothers, the sons of 

 Pandu b}^ his wife Kiinti or Putha. This Matha is situated on the banks of 

 the Tunga and takes its name from a Katte, or anient, partly natural and 

 partly composed of huge blocks of stone, which Bhima, another of the five 

 sons of Pandu, is alleged to have hurled across the bed of the river so as to 

 form the dam. I have begun the ti-anslation of the legendary account of 

 the origin of this Matha, but, as pointed out by Mr. Narasimmaiengar, the 

 doctrine of Madhvachar was only promulgated between 5 and 600 years 

 ago. Whatever may be the origin of the Matha, the dam bears undoubted 

 trac3s of the wondi'ous magnitude of the works of those days. 



EOB. COLE, 

 Supt. of Indm Settlements, Mysore. 



5th August, 1872. 



Translation of the Copper Grant produced hy the Agrahardars 

 of Kiippagadde, Soraha Talook. 



SLOKA I. 



Jayatydvish hritam Vishnor. 

 Vdrdhani Kshohhitdrnavam : 

 Dahshinonnata Damshtrdgra. 

 Vishrdnta JBhuvanam Yapuhu. 



The body of Vishnu, incarnate in the form of a boar, on the edge of 

 whose lofty right tusk the earth rested, and which agitated and troubled the 

 ocean, exists in transcendent glory. 



Emperor Janamejaya ; the refuge of the whole universe ; the master of 

 the earth ; the Maharaja of Rajas, the arbiter of Rajsis ; the great Maharaja ; 

 the master of Hastinapura, the Queen of cities ; the bestower of widowhood 

 on the wives of the hostile princes of Aroha and Bhagadatta ; the sun of the 

 lotus of the Pandava race ; the skilful in warfare ; whose sun-like bow re- 

 sembled the Kalinga serpent ; the single handed hero ; the undaunted in 

 battle ; the slayer of ' Asvapatiraya' and ' Disapata Gajapatiraya' ; the smi- 



