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INSCRIPTIONS. 



night of the month of Bhadrapada in the Durmukhi year, 

 after the 1338th year of the Saka had expired, or on Monday, 

 the 14th of September 1416 A.D. (Old Style). In it the king 

 Vijayaraya made over to Hampandrya, the son of Tarki- 

 Mcdrya (also called Visnuyajvd), and grandson of the famous 

 Srisimhasuri, a contemporary of King Bukka, the village of 

 Cettupedu in Padavidu with its surroundings. 



In the second inscription (which dates from the 12th of 

 the bright fortnight of Karttika, in the year Visvavasu, the 

 1348th of the Saka, 1 or from Wednesday, the 24th of 

 October 1425 A.D., Old Style) Ayyalu or TdrMka, the son of 

 Hampandrya, gave Cettupedu, with its appurtenances, as free- 

 hold property to certain Brahmans as specified. 



Padabidu, or in its modern form Halebidi*, was the old 

 residence of the Hoysala kings. The country of Padabidu 

 therefore refers to the realm formerly subject to the Ballala 

 kings. Tagara and Agava are probably the Tagara in 

 Koimbatore and the Agara of Yelavandur in Mysore. 

 Some of the names of the other places are still found 

 in their neighbourhood. Cettupedu would therefore lie in 

 the mountainous tract south of the KaverL 



"With respect to the lists of kings of Yijayanagaram, it 

 must be admitted at once that a great confusion prevails. 

 Manuscript records and inscriptions on stone or copper are 

 often entirely at variance with each other. Under these 

 circumstances it is extremely difficult to arrange satisfactorily, 

 according to chronological order, the succession of these rulers. 

 I trust that the Archaeological survey lately instituted in 

 this Presidency will obtain from the newly-collected in- 

 scriptions sufficiently trustworthy information to unveil the 

 mystery which still covers this portion of Indian history. 



1 It ought to have been 1347 ; the figure 8 is most likely a mistake of 

 the engraver. The year of the Brhaspati-cycle can be generally accepted as 

 correct. Padavidda occurs in Rice's Mysore Inscriptions, p. 269. In old 

 Kanarese p remains unchanged ; pada corresponds to the Tamil pafa (uip), 

 See p. 217. • 



