Mysore and Coorg from the Inscriptions c9.s10.1

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.