It may be suggested that the Ganga-Pallavas as the suzerains of the Pallava country either by hereditary possession or by right of conquest appear to have pushed far into the South even into the borders of the Fand.ya country and to have invited the counteinvasion of Tonda-mancialam (comprising almost the whole of the present North Arcot and Chingleput and portions of the South Arcot and Nel [...] The Kaliyar inscription of the time of Rajaraja I which mentions a defeat inflicted on the Hoysalas by the Chola minister Apram6ya refers perhaps to the commencement of a series of struggles which closed only with the complete evacuation of the Mysore country by the Cholas and its occupation by the Hoysalas. [...] The cause for this apparently unprovoked invasion of the Gaiiga and the Ratta territory was evidently the annexation of the Tonda-mandalam by the Rashtrakatas and the murder of Rajitditya by one of the Gai)gas. [...] Perhaps this Bela's was the son of the chief queen Aftntaladgvi and may have died prior to the birth of Vijayanarasimha the son by LakshmidövL The gold coins with the legends TatakdrYt-gol:i rfa and No/ambavdcli-gouda so common with shroffs in the bazaars of Mysore still speak to the prowess of the great coqueror Vishnuvardhana. [...] Down to the middle of the fourteenth century Talkad remained in the possession of the Hoysalas and then passed into the hands of a reudatory of the Vijayanagar sovereigns till 1634 when it was conquered by the Mysore Rajas under the circumstances related above.
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