Later Gangas Mandali Thousand

Author(s): Nagarajaiah Hampa
Publisher: Ankita Pustak

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ix) Ganga Mandalinād (Sh. 54. 1216. pp. 53-55) x) Ganga Mandali-rājya (Sh. 78. 1291. p. 78)
An inscription of the 17th century refers to this family with its localisation - the Ganga Mandalinādu on the bank of the river Tunga-Bhadrā (Sh. 27. 1621. Yeragana-hāļu). The main scene of Mandalinād early activities lay on the banks of the Tungā and Bhadrā, where they strengthened their political position.
There were some small sub-divisions in the Mandali-thousand region.
Edatorenād is mentioned in an inscription of 1134 C.E. (Sh. 32. p. 43 Hutta-grāma). Another inscription referes to EdadoreMandali-sāyira, ruled by Hermmādideva, with its capital at Harige (Sh. 64. 1112). Ededore-70 had a Nā!prabhu looking after the region (Sh. 39 1122), whereas the Mandalinād is more known as the Ganga-Mandalinād elsewhere, this is the only instance where the division is mentioned as Edadore-Mandalināò, evidently named after its secondary capital town (Sh. 64. 1112) from where Ganga Hermādideva was ruling under his uncle Nanniya (Satya)- Ganga Permmāạideva, who was ruling from the primary capital Eạehalli. After it was superseded by the Hoysa!a Kingdom, Hosyaļa Vişnuvardhana is introduced in one of the inscriptions along with all titles of the Ganga Mandalinād kings (Sh. 87, 1245 Islāpura). Thereafter, Mandalinad is also referred to as Gangana nāờ, meaning the country of the Gangas (ibid, and Sh. 698 1320). Geographical boundaries of the Mandali-thousand can be marked as follows:
The modern Sikāripur taluk on the north, Honnāļi taluk on the north-east, Cannagiri on the east, Narasimharājapura and Tarikere taluks on the south, Tirthahalli taluk on the southwest, Sāgara and Hosanagara taluks on the west, the taluk of the Soraba on the north-west side - are the boundaries of the Mandalinādu, which evidently had included some of the villages of these taluks. For example the villages of Didugur, Kuruva, Kuruvadagadde, Kotepura and Honnāļi. But, the heart of the Mandali-Sāsira-nāļu