South India and her Muhammadan Invaders c13.s1.82

c13.s1.82

20. Kundāṇi.—This is a place till recently unknown to fame in the Krishnagiri Taluka of the Salem district and on the frontier of Bangalore district. It seems to have been in early times a place of considerable importance and is on one of those military roads which were often made use of in the wars of the Carnatic. As a road from here passes through the Berigai Pāḷaiyam, Budikoṭṭa and thence to Bangalore, it was one of the capitals in the days of the last Hoysalas. (Mr. F. J. Richards’ Salem Gazetteer, vol. i, part ii, p. 43).