Epigraphia Indica Vol 12

SR No.: 032566
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Sten Konow
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India
Publication Year: 1913
Total Pages: 464
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 25 MB

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EPIGRAPHTA INDICA,
[Voz. XII.
town plainly still survives in the place in the Hävina-Hadagalli tāluka which is shown & "Kõgali" in the Indian Atlas sheet No. 59, N. W. (1901), in lat. 14° 56', long. 76° 13', fifteen miles towards the north-east from Harpanhalļi and twenty-two miles in the same direction from Nilganda. The hamlets Adityapallikā and Kộishqapallikā and the villages Televágya, Kamandalakārpasa, Tilaka, and Lakshāgeha, which are mentioned in the specification of boundaries, cannot be traced in the map. On the occasion in A.D. 1087, when the grant was first made, the king was at his capital city, Kalyanapura (1.62): this is Kalyani in the Bidar District of the Nizam's territory. On the cocasion in A.D. 1123, when the grant was repeated, he was in camp at Vaijayantipura (1. 65-6): this is well known as an ancient name of Banawisi in the North Kanara District, Bombay.
In connection with the word gunda, kunda, as the second component of the name Niragunda, Nilgunda, Dr. Fleet gives me the following remarks :-"Some other places in the names of which this term occurs are as follows :-Hungund, a taluks town in the Bijāpir District, Bombay: its name is found as Ponugunda in an inscription of A.D. 1049:1 here ponu doubtless stands for pon, hon, honnu, 'gold'. Mulgund, & village in the Gadag tāluka, Dharwār District, Bombay: its name is given as Molgunda in inscriptions of A.D. 866 and 902,--the latter at the place itself :' here mul is, no doubt, mulu, mullu, 'a thorn': in the spurious Kurtakoţi grant, a final # is added, and the name is presented as Mulgandu. Nilgund, a village in the same tālaka : its name, which is identical with that of Niruganda, Nilganda, and has the same derivation from nir, 'water', is given as Nirgunda in the inscription of A.D. 866 at the place itself, and as Nilagunda (in Sanskrit verse), with the change from r to established, in the Damba! plates of A.D. 1379 :' in the inscription of A.D. 982 at the place itself, the name, for some inexplicable reason, is misspelt as Nirgunda, with the cerebral nd. Nawalgund, a tāluka town in the Dhārwār District : here the first term is plainly naval, navil, navilu, 'a peacock'. Nargund, a town in the Nawalgund tāluka: the strict form of this name seems to be Naraganda, Narugunda, with nara, naru, 'fragrance, scent. 6 Wokkund, the "Wakund" and "Wakkund" of maps, etc., a village in the Sampgaum tāluka of the Belgaum District, Bombay: this place is mentioned As Onkunde, and as marking the northern limit of the purest Kanarese, in chapter I, verse 37, of the Kanarese Kavirajamärga, written between A.D. 814 and 877: the first term is perhaps ondu, 'one', which becomes ok in composition before a k; or perhaps it represents vana, 'a wood, forest', a local pronuneiation of which is ona, wona : e.g. Pandavarig-ona-desa band-ante aditr, in the Ballad of the Daughter-in-law of Chandavve of Kittür.? Talgond. & village in the Shikārpür täluka of the Shimoga District, Mysore: in records at the place itself, this name is found as Sthăngkundūra (Sanskrit) in the Early Kadamba inscription of about A.D. 501-50, and as Sthanakundür (Kanatese) in an inscription of A.D. 1028 ;' as Tanagundur in inscriptions
1 See Ind. Ant., Vol. XXX, p. 264.
. Epi. Ind., Vol. VI, p. 104, line 321 and JBBRAS, Vol. , p. 190, line 4. I think there is an inscription which mentions the place as Mulugunda: but I cannot verify this just now.
Ind. Ant., Vol. VII, p. 220, line 29.
See, respectively, Epi. Ind., Vol. VI. p. 104, line 26, and JBBR48, Vol. XII, p. 867, line 129. * Epi. Ind., Vol. IV, p. 206, line 20. • See Kittel'Kannada-English Dictionary, under naga (1) and naru.
Ind. Ant., Vol. XIX, p. 420, first verse. 8 Epi. Ind., Vol. VIII, p. 33, line 15; Epi. Carn., Vol. VII, Shimoga, Sk. 176.
• Pali, Sanskrit, and Old-Canaren Inscriptions, No. 216, line 18 Epi. Carn., Vol. VIII, Sk. 177. In Ind. Ant., Vol. IV, p. 278, line 13, agraharathana Kuandacigo is a misreading, due to the indistinctness of the photograpb, for agrahara-Sthanakusindira.