Mysore and Coorg from the Inscriptions c9.s10: 10. Padinālkunāḍ
Mysore and Coorg from the Inscriptions c9.s10
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10. Padinālkunāḍ
c9.s10.1
When the Hoysala power was nearing its end, in the reign of Ballāla III, there was a great minister Perumāla-daṇṇāyaka, who founded and endowed a college at Mālingi, on the Kāvērī, opposite to Talakāḍ (TN 27). His son Mādhava-daṇṇāyaka was ruling Padinālkunāḍ (the Fourteen nāḍs¹) in the south of Mysore, with the seat of his government at Terakanāmbi (Gundalpet tāluq). He was in power to 1318, and (Gu 58) set up the god Gōpinātha in Gōvarddhangiri (the Gopālswāmi hill in the south-west of Gundalpet tāluq). He was followed by his son Kētaya-daṇṇāyaka, ruling in 1321 (Gu 69), and by Singeya-daṇṇāyaka, ruling in 1338 (Hs 82). Among their titles are: death to the Kongas, subduer of Nilagiri, skilled in turning back Pāṇḍya, and lord of Svastipura.
c9.s10.2
¹ There is a Pāḍinālknāḍ tāluq in Coorg, but that probably refers to four nāḍs (Nālknāḍ) as in Yeḍenālknāḍ. But Terakanāmbi-nāḍ is also said (Gu 11) to be called Kuḍugu-nāḍ, which is the name of Coorg.
c9.s10.3
Descendants from these were the Nava Dannāyaks of tradition, nine brothers, identified with Beṭṭadakōṭe, the fort on the Gōpālaswāmi hill, the chief of whom was Perumāl-dannāyak. Four of them, headed by Bhīma-dannāyak, quarrelled with the other five, and gaining Nagarapura (Nanjangūd) and Ratnapuri (Heḍatale), set up a separate government. After a time they returned to attack Beṭṭadakōṭe, which after a siege of three years was taken by stratagem. Mancha-dannāyak, who conducted the defence, seeing the citadel taken, leaped from the hill on horseback and was killed. The site of this leap is still pointed out. The four victorious Dannāyaks, placing a junior member of the family in the government of Beṭṭadakōṭe, set forth on expeditions of conquest, in the course of which tradition says that they overran the country from Davasi-beṭṭa (the southern point of Coorg) in the south, to Goa in the north, and from Satyamangala (on the Bhavāni in Coimbatore) in the east, to the Bisale Ghat (in the north-west of Coorg) on the west.
c9.s10.4
The later rulers of Kōṭe or Beṭṭadakōṭe belong to from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century, and the seat of their government was apparently at Hura, in the south-west of the Nanjangūd tāluq. Their distinctive titles were: *mahā-maṇḍaleśvara*, *Chēra-Chōla-Pāṇḍya-mūvara-rāyara gaṇḍa* (champion over the three kings Chēra, Chōla, and Pāṇḍya), *Nīlagiri-sādarak-oḍeyar*, *Nīlagiri-nāḍ-ālva*, or *Nīlagiri-uddharaṇa* (subduer, ruler, or protector of Nilagiri). But Mādhava-nāyaka (1530-1548) is given supreme titles (Hs 41).