Allalasandra Inscription Stones

Allalasandra is an old locality in north Bengaluru beside the GKVK campus on Bellary Road. Four inscriptions from the 11th to the 18th–19th centuries have been recorded here, of which two can still be found; the other two, a 1080 hero stone recording Ramadeva's death in a boar hunt and a 1340 Hoysala-period grant, are of unknown status.

The surviving 1544 stone, in Kannada, records how the local administrator Rachur Narasappa gave the whole village to the Allalanatha temple at Jakkur; it bears the sun and moon, signifying a lasting grant, and a Sudarshana chakra, a Vaishnava emblem. It was first published in the Epigraphia Carnatica in 1905. The second is a yantra kallu, a talisman stone with Tantric diagrams set up after a calamity, carrying Tamil-Grantha and Kannada letters and the name Alalasamudra. Villagers still worship it, believing it cures cattle disease and smallpox in children.