Mysore and Coorg from the Inscriptions c8.s10.37

c8.s10.37

Rājamalla Satyavākya I, the Ganga king who succeeded Śivamāra II on the throne, made himself independent of the Rāshṭrakūṭas, rescuing from them his country “which they had held too long” (Yd 60). But, as we have seen above, Amōghavarsha attempted to recover it by sending a chief named Bankēśa to uproot Gangavāḍi. This project failed, and the Ganga king is described as able even to shake the world. Amōghavarsha also fought against the Ganga king Prithivipati I. The Ganga king Nītimārgga I next signally defeated the Vallabha (or Rāshṭrakūṭa) army at Rājārāmaḍu (in the north of the Kolar District). But the Rāshṭrakūṭas continued to hold the Banavase province, which they had taken over from the Western Chālukyas. Its boundaries, however, did not extend eastwards beyond the Tungabhadrā.