The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s12.306

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(1) A stone inscription at Bâdâmi, in the Bijâpur District,⁵ which records that, on the full-moon day of the month Jyêshṭha, Śaka-Saṁvat 621 expired, in the third year of his reign, images of the gods Brahman, Vishṇu, and Mahêśvara (Śiva), were installed, at the victorious capital of Vâtâpi. The corresponding English date is, approximately, the 20th May, A. D. 699. The record contained, after the Sanskrit portion, some verses in Kanarese, which is here called "the Prâkṛit language:" they are now very illegible; but it can be seen that they mention the town by the name of Bâdâvi, which is the Prâkṛit equivalent of the Sanskrit Vâtâpi.