The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s13.216

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(5) Another inscription at Kaṇheri, on the architrave of the verandah of Cave No. 10, the Darbâr or Mahârâja's cave,⁶ which records that, in the reign of Amôghavarsha, and during the rule of the Mahâsâmanta¹ Kapardin II., son and successor of the Mahâsâmanta Pullaśakti mentioned above, a Buddhist named Avighnâkara, who had come from the Gauḍa country, had some caves, suitable for meditation, made at Kṛishṇagiri, and gave a perpetual endowment of one hundred drammas, from the interest on which, after his death, the monks were to be provided with clothes.³ The record is dated on Wednesday, the second tithi of the dark fortnight of the month Âśvina in the Prajâpati saṁvatsara, ‘Śaka-Saṁvat 775, which, though the year is given both in words and in figures, is a mistake for 773 (expired) or 774 (current); and the corresponding English date is Wednesday, 16th September, A. D. 851.³