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This article has been extracted from <br/>

THE IMPERIAL GAZETTEER OF INDIA , 1908.<br/>

OXFORD, AT THE CLARENDON PRESS.
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''Note: National, provincial and district boundaries have changed considerably since 1908. Typically, old states, ‘divisions’ and districts have been broken into smaller units, and many tahsils upgraded to districts. Some units have since been renamed. Therefore, this article is being posted mainly for its historical value. ''


=Kalasa=

Village in the Mudgere taluk of Kadur District, Mysore, 
situated in 13  degree 14' N. and 75 degree  22' E., on the Bhadra river, 24 miles 
north-west of Mudgere town. The village lies in a valley, surrounded 
by lofty hills, to the south of Mertiparvat, also known as the Kalasa 
hill. There is a large temple of Kalasesvara, containing thirteenth- 
century copper grants by Jain queens, and surrounded by fifteenth and 
sixteenth-century stone inscriptions of the Bhairarasa Wodeyar rulers of 
Karkala under Vijayanagar. It was probably a Jain temple originally. 
Mounds covering ruins of a large town lie on all sides. The original 
Santara kingdom of Pomburchcha extended into the kingdom of 
Kalasa above the Ghats and Karkala below the Ghats. Kalasa is 
called a ' three thousand ' kingdom. In the seventeenth century it was 
absorbed into the Keladi territory. In a sacred bathing-place on the 
river, called Ambatirtha, is a large square boulder, placed horizontally 
on another, and bearing an inscription that it was brought and placed 
there with one hand by Madhvacharya. This was the founder of the 
Madhva sect of Brahmans, who lived from 1238 to 131 7. The areca- 
nuts produced in the neighbourhood are reckoned the best in Mysore.