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(7). A stone inscription at Lakshmêshwar, in the Miraj State, within the limits of the Dhârwâr District,¹ which records that, at the time of a total eclipse of the moon on the full-moon day of the month Bhâdrapada, Saka-Samvat 645 expired, in the twenty-eighth year of his reign, when his victorious camp was at the town of Raktapura, Vijayâditya granted a village named Sembolala, on the south of the town of Pulikara, to a certain Jayadêvapaṇḍita, the dharma-tanaya, or son begot from a sense of duty, of Râmadêvâchârya of the Mûla-Saṃgha, for the purposes of a shrine of Jinabhaṭṭâraka inside the Jain temple that was known as the Saṅkha-Jinâlaya. The corresponding English date is the 20th August, A.D. 723; on which day there was an eclipse of the moon.² It has already been noted that Raktapura is probably a Sanskrit name of Lakshmêshwar. And Pulikara is the Sanskritised form of Puligere or Purigere, which were the ancient Kanarese names of the same place.