The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c29.137

v3.c29.137

In the recesses of the Western Ghāts there is a small village, called Angadi since the days of Achyutarāya of Vijayanagar², in the Mudegare taluk of the modern district of Kadur in Mysore. It apparently derived its importance from its situation at the point where the two roads from the Mysore State meet the road over the Ghāts from Mangalore. These two roads are of considerable importance from the point of view of the coffee planting industry now, and they seem to have enjoyed the same degree of importance even in those earlier days when the trade was in other commodities for which the region has always been famous. Before the days of the Vijayanagar king Achyuta, the place seems to have been generally known as Vāsantikāpura, apparently from the temple of the village goddess now popularly called Vāsantamma, or more formally Vāsantikādēvi. It had the alternative name Sasakapura (hare-town) with it modern equivalent Sosevur, and it was here that the Hoysalas had their origin.