The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c29.145

v3.c29.145

Vinayāditya was succeeded in the governorship of Gangavādi 96,000, by his eldest grandson Ballāla I in 1101. His capital was at Bēlūr, with which the Hoysala dynasty was throughout the period of their rule associated, though Dvārasamudra became later on an alternative capital. The territory under Ballāla I is given the same boundaries as that of his grandfather, and he is said to have paid a visit to the family capital Sosevur. In A.D. 1103 he made a re-grant of Sindagere to Mariāne *Dandanāyaka* as wages for wet-nursing his three daughters whom Ballāla married in the same pavilion at Bēlūr. The next year he led an expedition against the Changālva chiefs whose territory lay in the Hole-Narasipur taluk of the Hassan district of Mysore. He conducted a successful expedition the same year with his younger brother Vishnu into the neighbouring Pāndya dominions of Nolambavādi, and had to repulse an invader, Jagad-dēva, who had penetrated as far as Dvārasamudra. An inscription of Ballāla's time is dated in Chālukya Vikramāditya's era (K. 55).