Mysore and Coorg from the Inscriptions c8.s13.1

c8.s13.1

While, after the overthrow of the Rāṣṭrakūṭas in 973, the Western Chālukyas and the Kalachuryas in succession dominated the north-west of the Mysore country for 210 years to 1183,—after the overthrow of the Gangas by 1004,¹ the Chōlas dominated the south and east of the country for 112 years to 1116. The Chōlas² were one of the oldest royal lines known in the south of India, being mentioned in the edicts of Aśōka in the third century B.C. They were Tamil, and their original capital was at Oreiyūr (now known as Warriore), near Trichinopoly. But the later capital, which is the one principally identified with them, was Tanjore.