Mysore and Coorg from the Inscriptions c8.s8.1

c8.s8.1

But while the Noṇambas or Noḷambas thus continued to represent the old Pallava dynasty, there was another branch of the Pallavas which had its origin in perhaps the eighth century. This branch has been designated the Ganga-Pallavas. For Nandivarmma from whom they descended, a contemporary of the Chalukya king Vikramāditya (reigned 733-746), though a Pallava in name, was a Ganga by descent (EI. iv. 182). They would seem later to call themselves the Nṛipatunga-kula, from their Rāṣṭrakūṭa connection. Nṛipatungavarmma was a Pallava, the grandson of Dantivarmma and the son of Nandivarmma, but his mother was Śaṅkhā, daughter of the Rāṣṭrakūṭa king Nṛipatunga-Amōghavarsha, after whom he was probably named. At the same time he also claims to be descended from Koṅgaṇi, the ancestor of the Gangas. The territory of these Ganga-Pallavas lay in the east of Mysore, in the North Arcot, Tanjore, and Trichinopoly districts. Their inscriptions are in Vaṭṭeluttu and archaic Tamil characters, and their names generally have the prefix Vijaya, or, in Tamil, Ko-viśaiya.