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Of the race of OijisaJa Kings ^ 



[No. Z2, 



durga or (high fortress) and thence protecting the country, he gave 



to the Poet who was named Singhi-bhatta, the village named Sain- 



^ ^ hikai in irrevocable gift, exempt from taxation, m 



S. Saca, 11d4. . 



Saca year 1154, in Vijaya year, Asvini-suddha- 



tateyu^ on Guru varam (Tliursday.) 



Thus, in the like manner, performing many charities ; never re- 



„ „ tiring in battle ; humbling the pride of many 



7. Somesvara. , . ^ . . 



chieftams ; receivmg tribute from the hands of 



many kings, and chiefs ; while governing the kingdom, his 

 wife named Kuvitlisi-vani, and surnamed Lo- 

 SomesAaia, leignof ^^.^^^^j^ hove him a son named Sotnesvara"^ 

 40 years. 



very handsome, and of goad sense. Causing him 

 to be instructed in all manner of accomplishments, he nursed him 

 with the care ordinarily bestowed on four or five bodies (with 

 very great care.) He assuming the crown in ])wdra-samud?'a 

 governing the Covgu and Carnatoca-desam ; and properly causing 

 the Covils of the gods to be well built ; and performing many of the 

 S. S 1159 A. D. sixteen kinds of charity ; he obtained Cailasa 

 1236—7. (died). The period of his reign was Saca 1159. 



S.Narasinghall. 41 -^i^ ^^"^ ^^^^ JSTaraswgha raya^ who was anoint- 

 years. and installed in Dwara-samudra in Saca 



year 1205. His mayitns name was Perumal-dan- 

 S. S.^ 1205, A. D. ^a-nuyaka. His Dalavayi's name was Prama- 

 sa-7nupati. Together with these he governed the 

 kingdom. That is to say he was in form IW^eManmata, in wealth like 

 Cuvera ; in victory like Parasu-rama ; in bestowing gifts like the 

 Karpaca tree ; in moderation (or meekness) hke Dherma-raja ; in 

 governing the kingdom like Rama in bestowing lands like Bala- 

 chacraverti, in anger like Isvara. Thus with many kinds of disposi- 

 tions with (goja-durga-patdti,) elephant, forts, infantry, with many 

 kinds of weapons, setting forth he went to Congu-desam^ and took 

 tribute from its chieftains fighting a great deal in Kerala-desa ; total- 

 ly destroying the king of Kerala and his army. Afterwards friend- 

 ship being restored, and peace between Kerala-rama-raya, and this 



• Somesvara transferred the capital to Turai-samudra that is Dwara-samudra which 

 was south of the river Kistna : probably not very far from the site of Bidenore ; but 

 which Col. Mackenzie has identified with the ruins near Hallabi 105 miles North-west of 

 Seringapatam. This point corresponds nearly with the apex of an obtuse triangle, of 

 ■which the base line would connect Telicota and Talcad. Siva-samudra, on the island of 

 the Cauvery— not far from Seringapatam— was at some early period, a place of great con- 

 sequence, yet we do not trace it as such in this Manuscript. 



