The Geographical Dictionary of Ancient and Mediaeval India c5.s13.1

c5.s13.1

Yādava-Giri—Mailkote or Melukote, in Mysore, 25 miles to the north of Seringapatam, where Vetāladeva Ballāla-rāi, a Jaina king of Karṇāṭa or properly Dvārasamudra in Mysore, who was afterwards called Vishṇuvarddhana, erected a temple of Kṛishṇa known by the name of Chawalrāi in the twelfth century, after he was converted to Vaishnavism by Rāmānuja (A. K. Dutt’s *Religious Sects of the Hindoos* and Dr. Burnell’s *South Indian Palaeography*, p. 28). Same as Dakshiṇa-Badarikāśrama.