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(7). A copper-plate grant from Harihar, in Mysore,⁴ which records that on the full-moon day of the month Karttika, Saka-Samvat 616 expired, in the fourteenth year of his reign, when his victorious camp was at the village of Karanjapatra near the town of Hareshapura or Harishapura, Vinayaditya, at the request of an Aluva (i. e. Alupa) prince, granted to a Brahman a village named Kiru-Kagamasi in the Edevolal or Edevolal bhaga, in the Vanavasi mandala and a field at the village of Per-Gagamasi. The corresponding English date is, approximately, the 9th October, A. D. 694. Hareshapura or Harishapura is possibly Harihar itself.