 At Chandravalli there is a rock inscription of the first Kannada dynasty Kadambas founder Mayurasharma (345 CE) found in the "Bhairaweshwara temple".Chandravalli is pre-historic archaeological site, historians found painted pottery and coins 
from the pre-historic and Shatavahana period and found that the human habitation existed during the "Iron Age".In 1909 "B L Rice, R Narasimhachar and R Shamashastry" carried out the excavation work at Chandravalli.