His discoveries of ‘Halmidi Inscription’ (what was then the oldest known Kannada Inscription - 350 A. D.), of the site of lost Mauryan city of ‘Isila’ near Brahmagiri, of Shivaji’s father’s (Shahaji’s) forgotten tomb and his years as Director of the Mysore Archaeological Department where he was responsible for cataloguing nearly two thousand inscriptions is by any yardstick truly substantial. He was single-handedly responsible for laying down the foundations for substantial archaeological fieldwork in the Old Mysore State. He is the eminent Archaeologist, Historian, Indologist and Epigraphist Dr. Mysore Hatti Krishna Iyengar or Dr. M. H. Krishna in short. Now read on...
By Dr. S. N. Bhagirath
