Mysore and Coorg from the Inscriptions c8.s5.50

c8.s5.50

His son Rāchamalla Satyavākya (IV) then came to the throne.¹ There is an inscription of his time in Cg 4, dated in 977. In this his younger brother Rakkasa appears as governing a province on the bank of the Bedḍore, here the Lakshmantīrtha, which is still called the Doḍḍa-hole in Coorg. For some time past there seem to have been efforts to revive the influence of the Jain religion, of which the expiring Rāshṭrakūṭa and Ganga dynasties were the principal mainstay. And under Rāchamalla was erected at Śravaṇa-Beḷgoḷa, by his minister and general Chāmuṇḍa Rāya,—who is said in TN 69 to have performed many works of merit in the land he governed,—that remarkable Jain monument and object of worship, the colossal statue of Gomaṭa. The date of its execution was about 983, and in daring conception and gigantic dimensions it is without a rival in India.