சிருங்கேரி பல்லப்ப நாயக்கர் கல்வெட்டு
சிருங்கேரி கல்வெட்டு 'Reference to Ballappadnayaka in the Sringeri Inscription' There is an inscription dated 1346 AD (early Vijayanagara period) in a small hut at the back of the Vidyashankar temple. The name of Hariappa Wodeyaru, the first king of Vijayanagara Empire, his son-in-law Ballappadanayak can be found in it. Ballappa Danayaka was the second son of Dadisomayadanayaka, Bamaidan of the third Veeraballala of the Hoysalas and ruler of Chitradurga. When his father and elder brother Singayyadanayak were killed in military operations on behalf of the Hoysalas, he obtained special privileges from his brother-in-law. He did many philanthropic works as a Danayaka of Nigirilisolamandal (the present Kolar, Malur, Hoskote area) (Ballappa was with him in the inscriptions when he settled in Tiruvannamalai) and when the Hoysala Empire fell, he handed over its divisions to the Vijayanagara Empire at Sringeri with the blessings of his mother-in-law Sikkaitai...