76 Desertion of a Hindoo temple converted into a Mosque. 



purport of it cannot be fully made out. The first line alone is legible ; 

 it begins by stating that, " in the invincible reign of the auspicious 

 hero and Maharaja S'ri Pratapakapales'vara Deva, on "Wednesday the 

 22nd of Vaisakha, in the year — (?) the building of the enclosure of 

 S'ri G-aganes'vara." — (S'riVira S'ri Pratdpa-hapdlesvara Deva Mohd- 

 rdjankaru vijaya rdje samasta anka S'ri ha mesa 22n. budhavdre S'ri 

 Gag anes' vara Devanhu vedd gathana). — The name of the king in its 

 integrity does not occur in Prinsep's Tables ; the first part Pratapa is 

 common enough, and was assumed by two of the Siiryavahsi kings, 

 but neither of them had Kapales'vara (lord of skulls) for the second 

 part. That word, however, is a name of Mahadeva, and one of the 

 most common names of that divinity is Rudra, and if this circum- 

 stance would warrant the assumption of the two words being used 

 synonymously, the name would be that of the unfoilunate 

 Prataparudra, who reigned from 1503 to 1524, and left thirty-two 

 sons, all to be murdered by his minister Grovinda Deo. The date of the 

 enclosure, according to this conjecture, would be the first quarter of 

 the sixteenth century. 



E. 31. 



