Mysore and Coorg from the Inscriptions c13.10

c13.10

His son Śivamāra-Saigotta, who had already mastered the difficult *Phanisuta-mata*, the yōga of Patanjali (Nl 60), next made a profound study of the system of elephant management as expounded by the great yati born from the mouth of the female elephant, that is, in the *Pālakāpyam* of Pālakāpya or Karēnubhu,—to which there is a commentary in Kannaḍa,—and then wrote the *Gajāṣṭaka*, which, it is said (Nr 35), was so conspicuous for poetical genius that, if it could be imparted to a deaf mute, it would force him to speak. Būtugēndra, the younger brother of Rājamalla II, is also said (Nj 269) to have been like the son of Karēnu in knowledge of the great science of elephants.