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The '''Shravanabelagola inscription of Nandisena''', dated to the 7th century, is one of the early poetic inscriptions in the [[Kannada language]].<ref name="nandi">{{cite web<br />
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|title = Inscriptions<br />
|work = Official website of CIIL, Government of India<br />
|publisher = Classicalkannada.org<br />
|access-date = 2013-01-16<br />
|url-status = dead<br />
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}}</ref> The inscription extols saint Nandisena of [[Shravanabelagola]] (a prominent place of Jain religious power and worship) and his journey to heaven ("world of gods", ''lit'', ''devaloka'').<ref name="devaloka">Nagaraj in Pollock (2003), p.325</ref> According to the "Institute for Classical Kannada Studies", the inscription, which it dates to 700 A.D., is suffused with literary characteristics and figure of speech. It is therefore important to the study of the development of Kannada literature.<ref name="nandi"/> According to the scholar D.R. Nagaraj, exalting the "individual as the hero of the community" is the commonality the Nandisena inscription has with the other metrical Kannada inscriptions of the period; the [[Halmidi inscription]] and the [[Kappe Arabhatta|Kappe Arabhatta inscription]].<ref name="nandi"/><br />
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==Text of Inscription==<br />
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''surachApambOle vidyulltegaLa teRavOl manjuvOl tOri bEgaM <br />parigum shrI rUpa lIlA dhana vibhava mahArAshigaL nillav Arggam<br /> paramArttham mechche nAn I dharaNiyuL iravAn endu sanyasanam ge<br />ydurusatvan nandisEna pravara munivaran dEvalOkakke sandAn''<ref name="nandi"/><ref name="rice">Rice (1889), p.4, inscription no.26</ref>}}<br />
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==Text in Modern Kannada script==<br />
{{cquote|ಸುರಚಾಪಂ ಬೋಲೆ ವಿದ್ಯುಲ್ಲತೆಗಳ ತೆರವೋಲ್ ಮಂಜುವೋಲ್ ತೋರಿ ಬೇ<br />ಗಂ ಪರಿಗುಂ ಶ್ರೀ ರೂಪ ಲೀಲಾ ಧನ ವಿಭವ ಮಹಾರಾಶಿಗಳ್ ನಿಲ್ಲವಾರ್ಗ್ಗಂ<br />ಪರಮಾರ್ತ್ಥಂ ಮೆಚ್ಚೆ ನಾನ್ ಈ ಧರಣಿಯುಳ್ ಇರವಾನ್ ಎನ್ದು ಸನ್ಯಸನಂ ಗೆ<br />ಯ್ದುರುಸತ್ವನ್ ನನ್ದಿಸೇನ ಪ್ರವರ ಮುನಿವರನ್ ದೇವಲೋಕಕ್ಕೆ ಸನ್ದಾನ್.<ref name="nandi"/>}}<br />
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==English translation==<br />
{{cquote|Rapidly vanishing like the rainbow, like clustering flashes of lightning, or like a dewy cloud, to<br />whom are the treasures of beauty, pleasure, wealth and power secure? Thus saying, having assumed<br />the state of ''sanyasi'', the great might one, Nandi Sena, best and most excellent of ''munis'' reached<br /> the world of gods (''deva loka'')<ref name="loka">Rice (1889), p.118 - Translations, Inscriptions on Chandra Giri</ref>}}<br />
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==Notes==<br />
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==References==<br />
*{{cite web<br />
|url = http://www.classicalkannada.org/DataBase/KannwordHTMLS/CLASSICAL%20KANNADA%20INSCRIPTIONS%20HTML/SHRAVANABELAGOLA%20INSCRIPTION%20HTML.htm<br />
|title = Inscriptions<br />
|work = Official website of Central Institute for Indian Languages, Government of India<br />
|publisher = Classicalkannada.org<br />
|access-date = 2013-01-16<br />
|url-status = dead<br />
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130624002227/http://www.classicalkannada.org/DataBase/KannwordHTMLS/CLASSICAL%20KANNADA%20INSCRIPTIONS%20HTML/SHRAVANABELAGOLA%20INSCRIPTION%20HTML.htm<br />
|archive-date = 2013-06-24<br />
}}<br />
*{{cite book |last= Nagaraj|first= D.R|editor=Sheldon Pollock|title=Literary Cultures in History: Reconstructions from South Asia|year= 2003|publisher=University of California Press, Berkeley & Los Angeles|isbn=0-520-22821-9|chapter=Critical Tensions in the History of Kannada Literary Culture}}<br />
*{{cite book |last=Rice|first=Benjamin Lewis|title=Epigraphia Carnatica: Rev. ed, Volume 2-Inscriptions at Shravana Belagola|year=1889|publisher=Government of Mysore Central Press|location=Bangalore|id=ID: 3 2044 010 221 265|chapter=Inscriptions on Chandra Giri}}<br />
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==See also==<br />
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* [[Jainism in Karnataka]]<br />
* [[Jainism in north Karnataka]]<br />
* [[Jainism in Tulu Nadu]]<br />
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[[Category:Kannada literature]]<br />
[[Category:Literature of Karnataka]]<br />
[[Category:Earliest known manuscripts by language]]<br />
[[Category:Jain temples in Karnataka]]<br />
[[Category:Kannada inscriptions]]<br />
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