Mysore and Coorg from the Inscriptions c8.s11.15

c8.s11.15

Tailapa is described in Sk 125 as eager for war with Chōla and a terror to him. In Hs 50 is an inscription of 997 ascribed to the beginning of the reign of Pampā-Dēvi, daughter of the Chālukya Permmānaḍi. But there is no further information about her. Possibly she was the daughter of Satyāśraya, said to have been married to the Pallava king Iriva-Nolambādhirāja. Satyāśraya also had a son, Kundamarasa or Kundaka-Rāja, who was viceroy and governor of Banavase in 1012 (Sk 287), with the seat of his government at Balipura or Belgāmi (Sk 125). He was still in the same position in 1025 (Sa 7). Jayasimha Jagadēkamalla, Satyāśraya’s younger brother, next came to the throne. He caused the lotus king Bhōja to shut up, and was a lion to the elephant Rājēndra Chōla. In 1032 he was enjoying sports at Etagiri (Yatagiri in the Nizam’s Dominions). In 1036 he was at Pottalakere (Sk 126), and made a grant to Vādi-Rudraguṇa or Lakulīśvara-paṇḍita for repairs to the temple of the Pancha Linga at Balligāve, which had been set up by the Pāṇḍavas when they came there after performing the Rājasūya sacrifice. This Lakulīśvara has been supposed to be the same as the founder of the Pāśupata sect, whose career it had appeared began at Mēlpāḍi in North Arcot in 1020 (SII. iii. 27). But Lakulīśa, according to Si 28, must have lived at an earlier period than 943. And it is now discovered that the original Lakulīśa (whose name means Śiva with the club) belongs to the first century.¹ The king in 1039 was at Ghaṭṭadakere (Sk 153). In 1042 an agrahāra was established at Andhāsura, the place still so called near Anantapur, but first mentioned in connection with Jinadatta-Rāya, who belongs to the eighth century. A glowing description is given in Sa 109 *bis* of the Sāntalige-nāḍ, of which Andhāsura was apparently the capital at that time. Such was its fertility that hunger was unknown there. Meanwhile, in 1042 we have notices (Si 40, 37, 25) of certain Chōla chiefs connected with Irungōla-Dēva ruling under this king in the north of Sīra tāluq.