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Hindu Inscriptions, 



[Jan. 



outcast Chola, having forsaken his usual course, and left off practising 

 the virtue of his race, placed his foot in the Belavel Des ;* and having 

 burned many temples, and acquired sin by his own hand, he yielded 

 his bead, and left his body to Trilokya Malla, and brought destruction 

 on his race. The excellent temples which Permadi Ganga had con- 

 structed, the outcast Pandi Choi destroyed, and descended to Adho- 

 gati." Latchma Mandalek repaired them, " at which time the chakra- 

 holder (i. e. Bhunek Malla) stood in the famous place Kakaragonda, 

 on the banks of the South Gunga (or Tunga Bhadra river), in Saka 

 993."t 



Bhunek Malla, or Bhuvanika Malla, seems to have been a weak 

 prince, who did not long retain possession of the crown. In Saka 998, 

 his brother. Kali Yikram, with the title Tribhuvana Malla, expelled 

 him from the throne and usurped the kingdom. " Bhunek Malla, hav- 

 ing enjoyed the raj a little while, acted with tyranny, and oppressing 

 the people, lost their affections. His brother was a pattern of every 

 virtue. 



" He by his own valour overthrowing his enemies, became lord of all 

 the earth, with the title of Tribhuvana Malla Chalukya Vikramaditya 

 Kripam. 



" Having set aside the ancient Saka, he established the Vikram 

 Saka in his own name, &c. 



" All the people joining their hands stood by when he mounted 

 the Simhasanam."! 



Another inscription describes him as "attacking the goodly king- 

 dom of Bhunek Deva Malla, and taking it by his own strength of arm 

 in the battle-plain," and afterwards as " rubbing out the Saka," and 

 instituting the Yikram asra in its stead. § 



Yikram II. seems to have been one of the most powerful princes 

 of his race. He occupied the throne for fifty-one years, and of the 



♦ The open dry country, in opposition to the hilly rice country bordering on the Ghats. 

 Lakmesvrar and Anigiri are situated in a fertile black plain, called Belavel, par excellerwe, 



t " The date of this time is obtained by taking tne celebrated gunas (or three qualities), 

 the labda for nine units}, the randhra (or nine apertures of the body), Virodhikrutabda 

 chytrmas, acc." The figures above given, "\vritten in reversed order according to rule, give 

 Saka 993, exactly corresponding vrith Virodhikruta. A small village named Kakargudi 

 is still found on the south bank of the Tungbhadva, between Hurryhur and Dawangiri. 



X Ins. at Gadaga, No. 40 ofVII., p. 235. 



\ Ins. at Tengli, p. 263. Do. do. Yedravi, p. 223, Tl:e Hala-Kairarese word '! Manishi" 

 means rubbing out, as figures are swept out of the sand by schoolboys. 



