Mysore and Coorg from the Inscriptions c14.16

c14.16

Of Christian records, an old inscription has been found at Ānekal, surmounted by a cross, and referring to the *Kumbara ane* or Potters’ dam. Its date is uncertain. But Dominican friars are said to have built a church there in 1400. A stone or stones are also said to have existed at Kānkānhalli recording a grant to the “sannyāsis of Rome.” Nr 46, of about 1530, in relating the successes of the Jain disputant Vidyānanda at various royal courts, says that he destroyed (*alidu*) the European faith (*Peringiya mata*) of the Viceroy (or Agent—*Kāryya*) of Śrīranganagara or Seringapatam, who must, it would thus seem, have been a Roman Catholic Christian.