Later Gangas Mandali Thousand

Author(s): Nagarajaiah Hampa
Publisher: Ankita Pustak

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the banner of the divine Arhat (1A. XVIII. p. 309 11th century). Satyavākya or Nanniya and Nitimārgga being the other titles are also used as their second name. A process of shortening the lengthy personal name is also recorded. One of the charters of Mandalinād has used the form of 'Ballu', an affectionate abbreviation of Vira Ballasadeva. This reminds of the use of 'Vikki' for Vikramādityadeva. Similarly Goggi is the short form of Govindaradeva. Hegemony
The Mandalinād was within the fold of the Cālukyas of Kalyāņa. But, after its liquidation, the Manďali-sāsira region was officially taken over by the Hoysaļa kingdom, in the last decades of twelfth century, and the Mandali chiefs served the Hoysaļas as their vassals (Sh. 40. 1180 pp. 46-47). Even before that, when the Hoysaļas themselves were the feudatories of the Cālukyas, the region of the Mandali-1000, which was then an independent state directly under the control of Cālukyas, there were unhappy incidents of the Hoysaļas attacking the region of the Mandalinād. Bopaņņa a general of Poysaļa Bittideva had once attacked the Mandalinad (Sh. 12. 1120). An inscription of the early thirteenth century speaks of a general Goggi, an ornament of Nanniya Ganga's kingdom the Mandalinād, as a dweller at the lotus-feet of the Hoysaļa Pratāpa Cakravartti Vira-Ballā!adeva (Sh. 5. 1218). The Hoysaļa kingdom being in receipt of six-taxes from Gangananād and the neighbouring districts (Sh. 69. 1320), and also Vişnuvardhana with all the titles of the Gangana-nād (Sh. 87. 1245) are reported in support of the above statement.
After the GangaMandalināļ was amalgamated with the Āraga kingdom and merged in the Gājanūr-sthaļa or sime, in the year 1524, the villages Urukadvur, Daņāyaka-Hosahalli and Mattūr were given to Triyambaka, who in turn gave it to Hariharārādhya. The village Mattūr was divided into 120 shares out of which 90 shares were given away to the Brahmans (Sh. 26. 1524). An inscription of the 13th century refers to the area of the Ganga Mandalinādas a Svarṇagrāma-sthaļa, a place of the golden village (Sh. 54. 1216).