Land sn Cahkata, 49 



29. One thoufand four hundred and forty eight years of the Sacdbia, or 

 era eflablilhed in memory of Sa'li'va'hana, being elapfed; 



30,, In- the year Vyayr., in the month of Pi{/7jya t when the fun was enter- 

 mg Macaw, in the fa rk fortnight, on the day ofBriRiGU, and on that 

 venerable ti€hi t the ientk of the moon j 



31. Unof.r theconft^-jtion Visac*ha, at a time productive of good for- 

 tune, on he banks of the river c Tungaohadra % near the temple of the God 

 with three eyes ; 



NOTE. 



The date of the grant follows the genealogy of the donor, and precedes that of the donee; after which 

 •■comes a defcription of the land granted, and the religious tenure, by which it was to be held. The Sacdbda 

 iegan in Y. C. 78, and the grant was made in Y. C. 1 526, the very year, in which Baeur took pofleflion 

 clDehH.; or 264 years ago j for, by the almanack of Navad-jjipn, the firft of Vc^dc'h 1712 Y.S. anfwer* 

 to nth April 1790 Y..C. The cycle of fixty is divided into fets of twenty years, each fet being facred to 

 One oi e thr< e divine attributes ; and Vyaya is the 20th year of the cycle, or the laft in the part allotted to 

 Vish.nit. Macar is the figu of Capricorn, and Pujhya, the 8th lunar manfion. Bhrigu was the father 

 .of rfu cra, who prefides over the planet Venus, and is properly named Bha'&gava ; but the day of Bhri- 

 •e v means 1 riday. 



32. That temple, where priefts, who have aimed at piety towards Iswa- 

 ra as their only grandeur., and who mine only with the fame of eminent 

 holinefs, fix their hearts on the godhead alone ; 



33. Kim, who is an ornament of Agastya's race, and whofe peculiar 

 fudies are the Sac has, or branches, of the Yajurv'eda ; whofe father was 

 difinguifhed on earth m this age of Cali, or contention, by thefurname 



Of R\'ya; 



J4-. Born in the family of Tamva, Sri Aillapa Bhatta, furnamed 



G 



