The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s13.376

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³ At the temple of Nâgârjuna at Nâgâvi in the Gadag tâluka, Dhârwâr District, there is an inscription which is dated at the time of an eclipse of the moon, under the Mriga'ira nakshatra, on Friday, the full-moon day of the month Mârga'ira of the Śukla saṁvatsara, Śaka-Saṁvat 891 (expired), corresponding probably to Friday, 26th November, A. D. 969, when there was a lunar eclipse. It is probably a record of the reign of Khoṭṭiga. But the original is much damaged; the passage containing the king's biruda or name, at the commencement, is broken away and lost; and the ink-impression of the remainder does not suffice to supply the requisite information.—At the temple of Kannûra-Basappa, at the same village, there is an inscription the preamble of which refers it to the reign of Khoṭṭiga, who is mentioned as Nityavarsha-Khoṭṭiga-dêva. The original is much damaged. But it appears, from the ink-impression, not to be dated.—At Hirê-Handigôḷ in the same tâluka, on the back of a stone on which there is an image of the goddess Udachavva, there is a dated inscription which refers itself to the reign of Nityavarsha-Koṭṭigadêva. But the date is hopelessly illegible in the ink-impression. The remainder of the record is too much damaged to be edited from the ink-impression.