Mysore and Coorg from the Inscriptions c8.s7.4

c8.s7.4

Singapōta was subordinate to the Ganga king Śivamāra Saigoṭṭa, and was sent by him against his younger brother Duggamāra, who strove to set himself up as independent (Cl 8). The Rāshṭrakūṭas having imprisoned Śivamāra and assumed the government of the Ganga territory, we find (Cl 33, 34) Singapōta’s son and grandson under their orders ruling the Nolambalige Thousand and other provinces. This may have been the nucleus of the Noḷambavāḍi province. On the restoration of the Gangas, their king Rājamalla Satyavākya I married Singapōta’s grand-daughter, Pallavā-dhirāja’s daughter, the younger sister of Noḷambadhirāja, and gave his own daughter Jāyabbe in marriage to Noḷambadhirāja Pōlalchōra (Si 38). The latter appears in Kl 79 as ruling the Ganga Six Thousand under the Ganga king Nītimārgga. His son by the Ganga princess was Mahēndra or Bīra Mahēndra, who in Bp 64 is ruling the same province, under the Gangas. In Sp 30 he appears as ruling in conjunction with two others over a territory up to the Kiṟu-tore or little river as its boundary. But Si 38 represents him as assuming independence in 878, while DB 3 says he was ruling as king, and fighting with the Ganga king. He was opposed by Būtuga, the Ganga Yuvarāja, and finally slain by Būtuga's son Ereyappa, who thence obtained the title Mahēndrāntaka. Mahēndra's queen was a Kadamba princess, named Dīvalabarasi or Dīvāmbike (Mb 38), and he is called Noḷambādhirāja and the Noḷamba Nārāyaṇa. CB 26 of about 880 and Md 13 of 895 may refer to him, and show that the Noḷambas had gained considerable power.