Later Gangas Mandali Thousand

Author(s): Nagarajaiah Hampa
Publisher: Ankita Pustak

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6/ The Later Gangas : Mandali-Thousand
included the entire Shimoga and Bhadrāvati taluks, and the present taluk head-quarters of Tarikere and Nyāmati town in Honnāļi taluk. It is quite possible that some of the villages in the border of ChikkaMagalur district upto Koppa were within the limits of the Mandalinād.
The Manqali-thousand-nādu had the following broad administrative sub-divisions: Edavale-70 (MAR 1923. No. 116. 1160, Pădari-Hosur, Sh. 23. 115 Arakere), Edadore-70 (Sh. 39. 1122). Bilige-70 (Ci. 61. 1125), Cilūr-balli-30 (Hi. 14. 1076 Kuruva-grāma), Poļalu-12 and Dummi-12 (ibid). Edehalli was one of the capitals (Sh. 97. 1112). Edadore was the main capital. Lewis Rice equates it with a place in Koppa, but there is a town of that name on the bank of Tungā near Shimoga enroute Cannagiri. The Gangas
An indigenous race, the Gangas after their migration to Karnataka, made a modest but consistant beginning in the modern Kolar district region, with their will and skill, grew from strength to strength, expanding the boundaries to include numerically labelled as the kingdom of Gangavādi-96,000. As the fortunes of war and alliances ordained, the Gangas expanded their kingdom in all directions and held sway from the end of the fourth to the mid of tenth century C.E. After the birth of Būtuga and his sons, Mārasimha in particular, the Gangas became unassailable, as the Yādavas after the birth of Krişna. But, at the peak of their imperial power, they were subdued by the more powerful Răştrakūtas. They were reluctant to shoulder the Rāştrakūta hegemony, fought many battles. Ultimately both realised their strength and weakness, wisely decided to strike an honourable ambivalance. Govinda Prabhūtavarşa of the Rāştrakūțas and Nandivarman, the Pallava King, accompanied Śivamāra to the Ganga kingdom, bound the diadem on Śivamāra's brow with their own hands (MAR 1920 para 54). The families were tied together with matrimonial alliance, also motivated by political considerations.
The privity of the Kadambas and the Gangas, the Bädāmi Cālukyas and the Gangas, the Pallavas and the Gangas was not as perpetual and cordial as the Räştrakūtas and the Gangas; The