Mysore and Coorg from the Inscriptions c8.s1.7

c8.s1.7

But of the rock inscriptions at Śravaṇa-Beḷgoḷa, which mostly consist of only two or three lines, the longest and most important is SB 1, in Sanskrit, not dated, but, from the characters, belonging to not later than the fifth century.¹ For they closely correspond with those of the Kavaḍi stone (Sb 523), recording the death of the Kadamba king Ravivarmma and his queen; and phrases are grouped in a similar way in both, leaving a space between. Comparison may also be made with the characters of the Siragunda stone (Cm 50), which is of the time of the Ganga king Nirvvinīta or Durvvinīta, who came to the throne in 482.