Mysore and Coorg from the Inscriptions c8.s5.12

c8.s5.12

He was succeeded by Kiṟiya Mādhava, the son of Daḍiga, born in Kōlāla, who seems to have been not at all eager to fill a throne, as he is said to have assumed the honours of the kingdom only for the sake of the good government of his subjects. He was of a literary turn of mind, a touchstone for (testing) gold—the learned and poets, was proficient in the nīti-śāstra or science of politics, and wrote a treatise on the dattaka-sūtra or law of adoption.