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VII. GEOGRAPHICAL NOTES
1. Dugdhavāhini or kshiratarangini means the
Palar river.
2. Kantakānanapaṭṭaṇam is the same as Mulvāi-
pattanam, the modern Mulbagal, or, more properly,
Mudlabāgalu (the eastern gate, so-called from its loca-
tion at the eastern pass from the table-land of Mysore
to the temple of Tirupathi). The name also appears
as Mulvāyi in old inscriptions. It is an important town
eighteen miles east-north-east of Kolar on the old
Bangalore-Madras road by the Mugli pass. It is now the
headquarters of the Mulbagal taluk. The taluk formed
part of the Mahāvali or Bāṇa territory from the begin-
ning of the Christian era. Later, the Pallavas became
the overlords of the area, while the Vaidumbas held
some portion of the northern region. The Cōļla kings,
Parantaka and Virarājēndra subdued the Vaidumbas
in the 10th and 11th centuries. Vīra Cola and Vikrama
Cola are held to have erected shasanas at Mulbagal and
other places in the vicinity. This area was known as
niharili Cola mandala.
About 1117 A.D. the Hoysalas under Vishnu-
vardhana captured Talakar and Kōlālapura (Kolar).
On the death of Somēsvara in 1254, a partition of the
Hoysala dominions took place between his two sons
and the Mulbagal region was included in the Tamil pro-
vinces which fell to the share of Ramanātha. Soon after-
wards when the two portions of the Hoysala dominions
were reunited under Ballāla III we find him residing,
after the destruction of Dwarasamudra, in Hosur,
1. Dugdhavāhini or kshiratarangini means the
Palar river.
2. Kantakānanapaṭṭaṇam is the same as Mulvāi-
pattanam, the modern Mulbagal, or, more properly,
Mudlabāgalu (the eastern gate, so-called from its loca-
tion at the eastern pass from the table-land of Mysore
to the temple of Tirupathi). The name also appears
as Mulvāyi in old inscriptions. It is an important town
eighteen miles east-north-east of Kolar on the old
Bangalore-Madras road by the Mugli pass. It is now the
headquarters of the Mulbagal taluk. The taluk formed
part of the Mahāvali or Bāṇa territory from the begin-
ning of the Christian era. Later, the Pallavas became
the overlords of the area, while the Vaidumbas held
some portion of the northern region. The Cōļla kings,
Parantaka and Virarājēndra subdued the Vaidumbas
in the 10th and 11th centuries. Vīra Cola and Vikrama
Cola are held to have erected shasanas at Mulbagal and
other places in the vicinity. This area was known as
niharili Cola mandala.
About 1117 A.D. the Hoysalas under Vishnu-
vardhana captured Talakar and Kōlālapura (Kolar).
On the death of Somēsvara in 1254, a partition of the
Hoysala dominions took place between his two sons
and the Mulbagal region was included in the Tamil pro-
vinces which fell to the share of Ramanātha. Soon after-
wards when the two portions of the Hoysala dominions
were reunited under Ballāla III we find him residing,
after the destruction of Dwarasamudra, in Hosur,