The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s17.81

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⁵ The Carn.-Dêsa Inscrs. includes (Vol. II, p. 361) the text of an inscription in front of the temple of Basappa at Bhairvâḍige in the Bijâpur District, which, according to the transcription, refers itself to the reign of Bhillama, and is dated on the occasion of the winter solstice, falling in December, A.D. 1191, of the same saṁvatsara, Virôdhikrit coupled with Śaka-Saṁvat 1114 (current). The date is a possible one; but not altogether probable, because that saṁvatsara was the first year of the reign of Bhillama's son and successor Jaitugi I., and the date is rather a late one in it. This record seems to be not now extant; at any rate, my men did not secure an ink-impression of it. — It also includes (ibid, p. 362) the text of an inscription in the temple of Îśvara at Dêvara-Hippargi in the Sindagi taluka of the same district, which, also, according to the transcription, refers itself to the reign of Bhillama, and is dated on the occasion of the Kanyâ-saṁkrânti, or passage of the sun into Virgo, on Monday, the eighth tithi of the dark fortnight of Bhâdrapada of the Paridhâvin saṁvatsara, Ś.-S 1115 (current). Here, the approximate English date for the tithi is Monday, 31st August, A.D. 1192; the saṁkrânti having occurred on the preceding Thursday. This falls in the second year of Jaitugi I. And I think that there must be some mistake in the transcription, either in respect of the mention of Bhillama as the reigning king, or in connection with the saṁvatsara and the Śaka year. So much of the surface of the stone has been worn away, by constant smearing and rubbing in worshipping it, that a legible ink-impression can probably not be made now. And, when I was at Dêvara-Hippargi, the date had not attracted my attention; and so I made no attempt to read it on the original stone, if it can be read there.