Mysore and Coorg from the Inscriptions c8.s5.35

c8.s5.35

Gōvinda, either, as seems likely, on the death of his elder brother, or moved by reasons of compassion or policy, released Gaṅga from his “long and painful confinement,” but owing to his hostility had again to confine him (*EI.* vi. 249). During this period of release may have occurred the victorious attack he made at Muḍuguṇdūr (Maṇḍya tāluq) on the Vallabha (or Rāshṭrakūṭa) army encamped there, which may have been the cause of his being again consigned to prison. Eventually, however, Gōvinda not only reinstated him in his kingdom, but took part in his coronation, he and the Pallava (or Gaṅga-Pallava) king Nandivarmma binding the diadem on his brow with their own hands (Yd 60, Nl 60¹). The actual ceremony may perhaps not have been performed before. Kl 231 and Gd 54 show that Śivamāra was ruling. According to *IA.* xviii. 309, his reign extended into that of the Rāshṭrakūṭa king Amōghavarsha, who came to the throne in 814. Śivamāra Saigotta is there presented as his feudatory (the solitary instance in which the Gaṅgas acknowledge an overlord); the crowning is mentioned; and Śivamāra is said to be ruling the Gaṅgavāḍi Ninety-six Thousand up to Marandale as his boundary (see above, p. 31). He erected a Jain temple in Kummadavāḍa (now Kalbhāvi, in Belgaum District).