Stone inscription belonging to 14th century found in Udupi


Daijiworld Media Network - Udupi (MS)

Udupi, Sep 28: A stone inscription has been found in Ganadabettu of Ajekaru in the taluk of Karkala. The team of researchers was able to find the Kannada inscription of 14th century.

The stone inscription has 10 lines of Kannada language and script. It is sculpted in granite stone three feet in height and two feet wide. It has got conch and wheel on the top part.

Shruthesh Acharya of the research team conveyed that the inscription is dated November 7, 1409. The inscription was found on land belonging to Ammu Shetty.

The writing on the inscription mentions the donation of coconut oil extracted from 11 coconuts to Lord Vishnu at Ajekaru from Ganadabettu area.

The team of researchers includes Professor S A Krishnaiah of Oriental archives research centre of Udupi, K Sridhar Bhat, retired teacher of U Kamalabai high school and Shruthesh Acharya Moodubelle of Pleach India foundation of Hyderabad. They were supported during the finding of inscription by Prakash Shetty Marne, Suresh Shetty Ganadabettu, Ravi Santhosh Alva and Sushant Shetty.

Many inscriptions of Kannada are found in the district of Udupi earlier also. These give sufficient evidence that Kannada is an ancient language. It is said that the Kannada script is around 1,500 to 1,600 years old.

 

 

 

  

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  • Birve, Urva

    Wed, Sep 28 2022

    This gives an evidence that bunts were powerful in 14th century, and shows that they were defacto rulers of tulunadu.

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  • Mangalurian, Mangaluru

    Wed, Sep 28 2022

    Thank you to all the people who put so much effort into the research, identifying the characters and translating for the benefit of the readers like myself. What is remarkable is that the extraction of the coconut oil must have been done using the "gaane", perhaps at a newly installed one at the time. This suggests that where the "gaane" was installed was a "bettu", and the name has remained to the place for the last SIX hundred years. Amazing! Also, while the Kannada script would have come to be used after the 12th century, people in the coastal areas used Tulu script before that time. The local Brahmins took the Tulu script to Kerala many years later, and it became "Malayalam script".

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  • S Shetty, Tulunaad - Odipu Kudla Kasrod

    Wed, Sep 28 2022

    Tulu Script was invented to write Samskritha it seems, Tulu Brahmins Invented Tulu script to write Mantras in Tale Gari, so they wanted a Balli type font, and it seems it was not in use by normal people back then. Tulu Brahmins took the Tulu script to Kerala to do Poojas and Mallus Adopted that and became Malayalam Script. Also, they say the Aum is Written in Tulu Script, if you see carefully in Tulu script Aum resembles to present Day Aum.

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  • Mangalurian, Mangaluru

    Wed, Sep 28 2022

    Thank you. Yes. I agree. I found the details in the book "Christopher Columbus: Buried deep in Latin the Indian origin of the great explorer from Genoa". According that book, a European researcher noted that the same script was called "Samskretam". The book provides many interesting details about Tulunadu in the 17th century.

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  • Alwyn, Mangalore

    Wed, Sep 28 2022

    After BJP and RSS started to rule all things began to found.....Hope they will find one day the natural way to hell too....

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  • S Shetty, Tulunaad - Odipu Kudla Kasrod

    Wed, Sep 28 2022

    You also need to find something, I am Serious! think of it.

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  • Peter, Mangalore

    Wed, Sep 28 2022

    Go to Afghan, you will find Hell.

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