The Quarterly Journal of the Mythic Society (New Series) January 1950

The grant of a territory extending upto the western ocean not only pre-supposes the extent of the Pallava kingdom in the west but the grant of this strip of country by the Pallavas necessitates the 16. [...] The dominion of the Kadambas embraced all the west of the Mysore together with the Haiga (North Kanara) and Tuluva (South Kanara)" and icluded the Kuntala province which' was the name of " the country between the Bhimei and the Vddavati bounded on the west by the western ghats including the Shimoga Chitaldrug Hellarfy Dhawar Bijapur and adjacent parts to the north in Bombay and Nizam's [...] They are the western ocean in the west the Bhim-a in the north the big Hagara river in the east and the Vecliivati in the south. [...] The Vëclavati is formed by the union of two rivers called the Veda and the Avati which rise in the Mulainagiri in the eastern side of the Chandradrona mountains and unite after some journey in the Kadur district at Tangli south-east of Kadur and further on it is joined by the streams from the hills of Halebid and Harnahalli in the south and from those from the hillsaround Ubrani in the north. [...] To the south-east of the Turamara-vishaya along the valley of the Pewgiru was the ancient Hirawa-rgshtra and in the region of the Jammalamadugu and Cuddapah was Renaclu.