Nilgund is a village in the Gadag district (part of old Dharwar district) of modern Karnataka state, India. The inscription is in the old Kannada script. Lines 1-8 and 30-35 are in Sanskrit verse, and lines 9-29 are in Kannada language prose. Ref source: Epigraphia Indica and Record of the Archæological Survey of India, Volume 6, pp.98-108