[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [Mysore and Coorg from the Inscriptions](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rice-1909) › c8.s1.47 # Mysore and Coorg from the Inscriptions c8.s1.47 Mysore and Coorg from the Inscriptions c8.s1.47 - **Language:** English ### [c8.s1.47](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rice-1909.c8.s1.47) ¹ Mysore, properly Maisūru, derives its name from \*mahisha\*, Sanskrit for buffalo, reduced in Prākrit to \*mahisa\* and in Kannaḍa to \*maisa\*, and \*ūru\*, Kannaḍa for town or country; which commemorates the destruction of Mahishāsura, a minotaur or buffalo-headed monster, by Chāmuṇḍi or Mahishāsura-mardani, the form under which the consort of Śiva is worshipped as the tutelary goddess of the reigning family. Mahisa-maṇḍala appears in the Tamil form Erumai-nāḍu in Mānūlanār’s \*Aganānūru\*, which is of the second century. - [Previous: c8.s1.46](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rice-1909.c8.s1.46) - [Next: c8.s2.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rice-1909.c8.s2.1) - [Up: c8.s1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rice-1909.c8.s1) ## Cites (1) - [Akanāṉūṟu](https://indike.org/pramana/in.sangam.eight_anthologies.akananuru) — Uruttiracaṉmaṉ, Tamil --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rice-1909.c8.s1.47](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rice-1909.c8.s1.47) · Pramāṇa