Mysore and Coorg from the Inscriptions c8.s3.23

c8.s3.23

But they by no means disappear from history. The Bāṇa kingdom is mentioned along with others in southern India of the twelfth century in Vaidyanātha’s *Pratāpa-Rudriya*. Trivikrama-dēva, the author of the Prākrit grammar *Trivikrama-vritti*, of probably the fifteenth century, claims to be a descendant of the Bāṇa family (*IA.* xiii. 13). Moreover, inscriptions at Śrīvilliputtūr in the Tinnivelly District show that two kings, named Sundara Tol and Muttarasa Tirumala, who obtained possession of the Pāṇdya throne in 1453 and 1476, call themselves Mahāvali Vāṇādhirāja (*ib.* xv. 173).