Mysore and Coorg from the Inscriptions c8.s3.22

c8.s3.22

For other references—the Chalukya king Vikramāditya (655-680) is said (*IA.* vi. 75; *Seven Pagodas*, 127) to have conquered Rājamalla of the Mahāmalla family, that is the kings of Māmallaipura, the common name for Mahābalipura—in other words the Mahāvalis. Under the Gangas in 776 the Nirgunda Yuvarāja, Duṇḍu, is said (Ng 85) to have put the Bāṇa family to confusion. The Ganga king Nitimārgga, in about 850, is said (Mb 228) to have captured Bāṇarasa’s Mahārājara-nāḍ, which was chiefly in the Kadapa District. The Chōla king Vīra-Nārāyaṇa or Parāntaka in 921 claims (*SII.* ii. 387) to have uprooted by force two Bāṇa kings, and conferred the title of Bāṇadhirāja on the Ganga prince Prithuvīpati II, great-grandson of Śivamāra I. The Bāṇas, therefore, though claiming friendship with Krishna Rāja, no doubt a Rāshṭrakūṭa king and an enemy of the Chōlas, seem to have lost their independence in the first half of the tenth century. Hence we find (Mb 126) Sambayya in 961 ruling a district under the Pallava king Iriva-Nolamba or Dilipa.