inscriptions in the hassan district

XII
INTRODUOTION.
in Lankapura. The only Tereyur I know is in the north-east angle of the
Tumkur District. It is frequently mentioned among the conquests of Vishnuvarddhana.
The queen Mahadevi had a tank built, one of her agents for
carrying out the work being named Kaduvitft 1 .
With Bl. 199 of 1101, we have the first inscription of Ballala, the eldest
son of Ereyanga. He is described as ruling all the lands bounded by Konkana,
Alva-kheda, Bayal-nad, Talakad, and Savimale. These were the boundaries of
Vinayaditya's kingdom (see Ng. 32, Vol. IV). Ballaja is described as going
on a visit to Sosavur, the birthplace of the Hoysalas, which, as above stated,
I have identified with Angadi in Mudugere taluq. Angadi is mentioned by that
name in Bl. 197 of the time of the king Achyuta-Raya of Vijayanagar. Ballala
next appears in 1104, Hn. 161 and 162, in the latter leading an expedition
against Changalva-Deva. His reign probably ended in this year. In B1. 58
he is described as, along with his brother Vishnu, beating down the pride of
Pandya and seizing the wealth of his kingdom. Also as defeating the army of
Jagaddeva in Dorasamudra and seizing his treasury together with the central
ornament of his necklace.
With On. 169 of 1106, probably begin the inscriptions of Vishnuvarddhana,
though bere only named Tribhuvanamalla-Poysala. A chief of the Chalukya
family, Bacharasa, son of Muddamarasa, made a grant of a tank. Hn. 149
records the foundation of the new Kollapura, Dodda Gaddavalli, and the
erection there of the temple of Mahalakshmi by a great merchant and his wife
in 1113. Bl. 68 of 1117, is the first that gives a detailed account of Vishnuvarddhana's
conquests. First taking into his arms the fortune of the Poysala
kingdom which he had inherited, he brought all the points of the compass under
his command, and capturing Talakadu, became the first to the Ganga kingdom 3) .
He is also said to have burnt the chief city of the Gangas, polluted the water
of the Kaveri by throwing the corpses of the enemy into it, so that Rajend ra-
Chola was driven to use the wells in the vicinity, and delayed the setting in of
the south wind, because it was stopped by filling the nostrils of the skulls of
his enemies slain on the banks of the Kaveri. Such was the terror be created
that even Yama was afraid to straighten his mustaches. He made the earth
tremble with the tramp of his, Kambhoja horse, was lord of Gandagiri, split the
great rock Pandya, burst the hearts of the Tulu kings, destroyed the army of
Jagaddeva, devoured the fierce elephant Somes vara, displayed his valour before
1) The Kadaritti tank is mentioned in Ak. 102 b .
2 ) Cn. 209 contains a notice of the oaptnre of Talakadu. It says that terrified at hearing the
sound of Hattagar,a Kete-Nayaka'a glittering shield, taking it for a rambling of the earth or the rolling
of thundar, Adiyama, crossing the river from the south side, fled, and at the game moment Kete-
Hayaka entered the fort of Talakadn behind king Yishnurarddbana. Bl. 171 says that he oaptured
Talakadu, pursued after the army of the Tigulas, and become the first to the Ganga kingdom On
Pandya flourishing his sword, Hoysaleia out him down with his own sword, and left only half a
man to look on in the Tigula's army.