Local Government in Ancient India c12.21

c12.21

We need not refer to the irrigation works mentioned in the later Cola, Pāṇḍya, and Vijayanagara inscriptions, but we may notice some in the Telugu and Kanarese countries. These are 'the great tank, a reservoir for the supply of abundant water' built at Tālagunda in the Shimoga district of Mysore by the Kadamba king Kākusthavarman in the first half of the sixth century A. D. (*Ep. Ind.*, vol. VIII, p. 36); another at Chikballapur in the Kolar district mentioned in a record of A. D. 977–8 (no. 126 of 1892); and another with a sluice constructed at Sindhuvalli in the Mysore district in A. D. 1106–7 during the reign of the Cola king Kulottuṅga I (no. 3 of 1895). Several inscriptions at Bāgali in the Bellary district record gifts made to the 'big tank' for repairs, &c.