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The replica of the Halmidi inscription mounted on a pedestal. The inscription is in verse form indicating the authors of the inscription had a good sense of the language structure. [12] The inscription is written in pre-old Kannada (Puruvada-hala Kannada), which later evolved into old Kannada, middle Kannada and eventually modern Kannada. [13]
578 CE Mangalesha Kannada inscription in Cave temple # 3 at Badami 634CE Aihole inscription of Ravi Kirti. About 25,000 inscriptions found in Karnataka and nearby states [1] belong to historic Kannada rulers, including the Kadambas, the Western Ganga Dynasty, the Rashtrakuta, the Chalukya, the Hoysala and the Vijayanagara Empire.
Halmidi is best known as the place where the oldest known inscription exclusively in Kannada language, the Halmidi inscription, was discovered. Anterior to this, many inscriptions with Kannada words have been discovered, such as Brahmagiri edict of 230 BCE of Emperor Ashoka. However, this is the first full length inscription in Kannada.
The Kannada inscription is published in Epigraphia carnatica, a compendium of Inscriptions in Karnataka by B.L Rice. [3] The inscription was in a precarious condition on the roadside prior 2018 which was later shifted to a safe spot in the Halekote Anjaneya temple for its conservation, apart from this, it is also 3D scanned and archived by the Mythic Society's Bengaluru Inscriptions 3D Digital ...
The Halmidi inscription is the oldest known inscription in the Kannada language. The inscription is carved on a pillar, that was discovered in the village of Halmidi, a few miles from the famous temple town of Belur in the Hassan district of Karnataka, and is dated 450 CE. The original inscription has now been deposited in an archaeological ...
The oldest reference to the name of the city is found at the Nāgeśvara temple complex in Begur. The inscription is dated to circa 900CE and mentions "Bēngul̤ūr" as a territory around which a war was fought. [1] A 1247 CE inscription at the Sōmēśvara Temple in Old Madiwala mentions 'Veṇgalūr's big tank'. [2]
The Hebbal-Kittayya inscription is the oldest intact Kannada inscription in the city of Bengaluru. For comparison, it predates the earliest available literary work in Kannada, Kavirajamarga by about 100 years and provides an idea of the form and shape of characters that would have been used in this famous literary work by its author.
Inscription #2, made around the same time, is currently missing. c. 450: Old Kannada: Halmidi inscription [87] A date of 350 has been claimed for the Tagarthi inscription found in Shivamogga district, but this is disputed. [88] Kavirajamarga (c. 850) is the oldest literary work. [87] c. 478-490 [89] Classical Armenian: inscription at the Tekor ...