Indian Epigraphy c16.s4.91

c16.s4.91

It has also to be noticed that the tendency of forming this kind of geographical names can be traced in the Kannaḍa-speaking area even in early times. Thus an Early Kadamba inscription of the 6th century A.D. mentions Kiṟū-Kuḍalūr-pallī as one of the twenty-four *pallīs* of the *Mahāgrāma* called Tagare situated in Tagare-viṣaya.² Earlier still, a Malavalli inscription of about the 3rd century A.D. refers to Sahalāṭavī as a *Grām-āhāra*, literally ‘a village-district’, i.e. a group of villages, while a slightly later epigraph at the same place seems to suggest that the said *Grām-āhāra* consisted of twelve villages.³ In later terminology, Tagare and Sahalā would have been called Tagare-24 and Sahalā-12.