Mysore and Coorg from the Inscriptions c13.14

c13.14

Kālidāsa is praised in the yamaka verse Mk 39. Mb 42 mentions the Pōdiyam (mountain) where the three forms of Tamil (prose, poetry, and the drama) flourished. Ck 40 extols the attainments of a pandit named Mallikārjjuna, and describes him as highly versed in the five pratiṣṭes, namely, the Māya, Bhūpāla, Yōga-pārāyaṇa, Pratiṣṭe, and Pratiṣṭārṇṇava, as well as in logic, grammar, and the Vṛtti, Paji, Byōma-ṭiku, and Durgga-ṭiku śāstras. Vaijaṇṇa appears as a poet in Bl 238. TN 23 refers to Patañjali’s Padastōma, and to Rāmānuja as the author of the Bhāshya (the Viśiṣṭādvaita-vēdānta-bhāshya). In Dg 25 we are informed that the Hoysala general Pōlālva composed a Hari-charite in shaṭpadi verses. Sōma is said in Mb 158 and Gd 46 to have been a successful poet in eight languages, and to have acquired much wealth by his profession. Unfortunately we are not told what languages they were. In Sb 375 is an account of the Vijayanagar prince Mārapa, who, with his minister Mādhava, having collated the three vēdas and examined the text of the purāṇas, compiled the Śaivā-gama-stōtra. The Vijayanagar king Harihara II is expressly stated in Kp 34 to have been a cultivator of Karṇāṭaka learning. Ādityāryya is said in Pg 69 to have been the author of *Bhāshya-bhūsha*. Sr 94 contains an account of the recitation of the Mahābhārata before the Mysore king by Alasingar-aiyangār.