Mysore and Coorg from the Inscriptions c8.s13.6

c8.s13.6

² Unlike those of other royal lines, the Chōla inscriptions, instead of being on separate slabs of stone set up at the site of a grant, are mostly inscribed on the basement and outer walls of temples, in long single lines that go right round the building. The earlier ones in Mysore are generally in Kannaḍa, but the majority are in Tamil, and there are even some in the Tamil language but in Kannaḍa characters.