Mysore and Coorg from the Inscriptions c8.s20.2

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and of whom there are a dozen or more inscriptions in Coorg (see Cg 30-50), disappeared on the expulsion in 1116 of the Chōlas from Mysore by the Hoysalas, their latest inscription being dated in 1115 (Cg 33). But the Changālvas, who ruled over the other parts of Coorg and Changa-nāḍ—the Hunsūr tāluq in Mysore—continued in power, in subordination to the Hoysalas, and subsequently, as the Rājas of Nanjarāyapaṭṭaṇa or Nanjarājapaṭṭaṇa, to Vijayanagar, till nearly the middle of the seventeenth century (Hs 36). The earliest express mention of the Koḍagas or Coorgs in the inscriptions is in 1174 (Hs 20), when Bāḍagaṇḍa Nandi-Dēva, Udeyāditya-Dēva of Kuruche, and others, the Koḍagas of all the nāḍs, are said to have assisted the Changālva prince Pemma-Vīrappa in his attack on the Hoysala army at Pālpare, an enterprise that was not successful. The Changālva line became extinct in 1644 by the death of the last king at the capture of Piriyapatna or Periapatam by the army of the Mysore Rāja. The latter did not, however, follow up the victory into Coorg, owing to the forces of Bednūr having entered the country under Śivappa-Nāyaka, who was engaged in invading Malayāla. The Koḍagas later on may have attempted to recover Piriyapatna, as they are mentioned (Sr 64) among the assailants from all quarters who were overcome by Chikka-Dēva-Rāja of Mysore.