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INSCRIPTIONS. 



battle, the hero who cut off the heads when fighting with 

 enemies, the hero who cut off the head of Uppulasoma, the 

 hero who cut off the head of the king of Gandi, the hero who 

 cut off the head of Lakkinayaka, the hero who cut off the 

 head of Kaceyanaik of Yedipali, the hero who cut off the 

 head of Kesinaik of Kanduru, who is unequalled in his 

 very fierce and smokeless splendour, who is like Rama in battle, 

 who has taken away at night the treasure of Cirabelakinaik 

 the lord of the wheat- town of Tonda, which is by the 

 side of the country of Teralakadu, who is distinguished by 

 genuine fierceness, who distributes the necklace of Kotapim- 

 madiraya, one who wears a coat of mail, who strikes the horses 

 with a silken whip, who is the auspicious right-hand club of 

 Rudradeva, with whose fame the casket-like egg-shell of 

 Brahma is filled, who is proud of his power, who worships the 

 holy lotus feet of the god Srisomanatha, who conquers the 

 troops of the enemy, who knows the virtues of all political 

 measures such as conciliation, &c, while he the renowned and 

 excellent hero Gore Gaiigaya Raddivaru was administrating 

 in Poddamanapura his kingdom on earth in the enjoyment 

 of peace and pleasant news, the king Vithalanatha — who 

 is the chief protector of his kingdom, who worships the 

 holy lotus feet of the god Srmarayana, who protects all 

 people, who conquers the troops of his enemy, who effects all 

 sorts of kindness, who is endowed with holy qualities — 

 having reduced the fortresses of Adavanitumbuka and Magu- 

 dahaluva, having afterwards turned his face towards the 

 spears of the city of Racuru, while ruling his kingdom on 

 earth in the enjoyment of peace and pleasant news, construct- 

 ed for the protection of all the subjects of his entire kingdom 

 on Sunday the tenth day of the bright fortnight of Margasira 

 after the (expired) Saka year 1216, 1 corresponding to the 

 (present) Jaya year, the rock fortress. — Great blessing — 

 Prosperity — prosperity — prosperity. 



1 In inscriptions the expired year of the Saka is given together with the 

 actual year of the sixty years' cycle; Jaya corresponds therefore with 1217. 



