Mysore and Coorg from the Inscriptions c10.39

c10.39

Among the officials of rural districts, the nāl-gāvuṇḍa or nāḍ-gauḍa was one of the most important. There is an interesting account (Sk 219), dated 918, of the office being continued to the widow on the death of her husband. She was a Jain, and rejoicing in her beauty, was distinguished for the skill and ability of her management. Though a woman (it says), she well protected her charge, with pride in her own heroic bravery. But on being attacked by some bodily disease, she retired in favour of her daughter, and ended her life with the performance of the Jain vow of sallēkhana.