English: This photograph of a Herostone (virgal) with old Kannada inscription (1028 A.D. ie, Saka 950) from the rule of Western (Kalyani) Chalukya King Jayasimha II was taken by me at the Praneshvara temple (also spelt Praneshwara or Pranesvara) in Talagunda in the Shimoga district of Karnataka state, India. Source: Mysore inscriptions, pg.201, Benjamin Lewis Rice, Director of Public Instruction, Mysore and Coorg, Printed at Mysore Government Press, Bangalore, 1879; Pâli, Sanskṛit and Old Canarese inscriptions from the Bombay Presidency and parts of the Madras Presidency and Maisûr, John Faithful Fleet, James Burgess, Archæological Survey of Western India, Chapter:Analysis of inscriptions, pg. 26, #215, 1878