Mysore and Coorg from the Inscriptions c10.20

c10.20

But from an early period all the great provinces and their subdivisions commonly had their revenue value attached to the name. Thus, while Kuntala and Raṭṭavāḍi were a Seven-and-a-half Lakh country, Gangavāḍi was a Ninety-six Thousand, Banavase a Twelve Thousand, Noḷambavāḍi or Noṇambavāḍi a Thirty-two Thousand, Toṇḍanāḍ a Forty-eight Thousand. Haidar Ali's territory is called a Three Crore kingdom (Si 98). Of smaller districts, Kongalnāḍ was an Eight Thousand, Punnāḍ a Six Thousand, Sāntalige a Thousand, Hānungal a Five Hundred, Belvola a Three Hundred, Bellave a Seventy, and so on. This system is still commemorated in the Yēlusāvira or Seven Thousand country, the north of Coorg. The figures apparently indicated nishkas (see Yd 53, 54), long obsolete, the value of which varied at different times and cannot now be precisely stated, but they are popularly supposed to be equivalent to varahas or pagodas.