Mysore and Coorg from the Inscriptions c13.5

c13.5

To revert to SB 54. It mentions Vakragrīva as the author of *Navaśabdavāchya*; Vajranandi of *Navastōtra*; Sumati of *Sumati-śatakam*; Chintāmaṇi of the *Chintāmaṇi*; Śrīvarddhadēva of the *Chūḍāmaṇi*; and Śrīpāla as having expounded the tattva. But the most valuable of its statements is in connection with Śrīvarddha, for in relation to him a couplet is quoted in which Daṇḍi highly praised him as a poet. And as Daṇḍi belongs to the sixth century, this supplies us with a definite period for Śrīvarddha, the author of the *Chūḍāmaṇi*. Now, this work is mentioned in Bhaṭṭākaḷanka’s great grammar, the *Karṇāṭaka-Śabdānuśāsanam*, as if the finest work in the Kannaḍa language, and it is described as a commentary on the *Tattvārtha-mahāśāstra*, containing 96,000 verses. It is also mentioned in TN 105, where it is called a poem, and the author is said to have been named Chūḍāmaṇi from his work, in which he had displayed all the ornaments of composition. In the *Rājāvali-kathe* he is styled the Tumbalūr-āchārya, and this place may be the Tombalūr, now commonly known as Dommalūr or Domlūr, immediately to the east of Bangalore; or, more likely, the Tumbala of TN 106-9.