Notes

1. A report on Halmidi inscription, Noted archaeologists M.H. Krishna and Srivatsa S. Vati have studied the inscription and published the details of the study in the Mysore Archaeological Report
2. A Report on inscription in Spectrum News, August 26th 2005 and Concise History of Karnataka , Dr. S.U. Kamath
3. According to Dr. Gururaj Bhat who discovered it. A Concise History of Karnataka, Dr. S.U.Kamath.
4. A Concise History of Karnataka, Dr. S.U.Kamath
5. According to well known Tamil scholar Iravatham Mahadevan in his book Early Tamil Epigraphy: From Earliest times to Sixth century, 2003 CE.
6. This was deciphered by noted German Indologist Dr. Hultzsch, E. (1904), "Remarks on a papyrus from Oxyrhynchus", Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1904: 399-405. Later scholars like Dr. Shama Sastry, M. Govinda Pai and Dr. B.A. Saletore argued that the language was indeed Kannada where as Dr. Barnett rejected this idea, A Concise History of Karnataka, pp 5, Dr. S.U. Kamath
7. Sri K. Appadurai, Place of Kannada and Tamil in Indian National Culture, 1997, INTAMM
8. According to Dr Gopal, director, Department of Archaeology and Ancient History.
9. Coins with Kannada legends have been discovered spanning the rule of the Gangas, Chalukyas, Rashtrakutas, Hoysalas, Vijayanagars, Kadambas, Keladi Nayakas and Mysore kings, according to Dr. Suryanath U. Kamath, A Concise History of Karnataka, 2001
10. Dr. S.U.Kamat, A Concise history of Karnataka, 2001
11. Prof. Nilakanta Sastri, K.A., A History of South India,1955, A Concise History of Karnataka, Dr. S.U. Kamath
12. Prof. Nilakanta Sastri, K.A., A History of South India,1955
13. Dr. Jyotsna Kamat, History of Kannada Language and Literature
14. A later 17th. century poet Bhattakalanka calls this the greatest work of literature in Kannada language according to Dr. Nilakanta Sastri, K.A., A History of South India, 1955, Dr. Jyotsna Kamat, History of Kannada Language and Literature
15. Dr. Suryanath.U. Kamath, A Concise History of Karnataka, 2001
    According to Sri K. Appadurai, The Place of Kannada and Tamil in Indias national culture, 1997, INTAMM
16. See http://baraha.com/

References

• Sridhar, S. N. (1990). Kannada. London: Routledge
• Dr. Suryanath U. Kamat, Concise History of Karnataka (2001). MCC, Bangalore (Reprinted 2002)
• Nilakanta Sastri, K.A. (1955). A History of South India, From Prehistoric times to fall of Vijayanagar, OUP, New Delhi (Reprinted 2002)

Kannada Literature

1. Karnataka Literature - A list of famous Kannada scholars and their works.