Here is description of Jiduvalige-nad a county in Banavasidesha, in a stone inscription of 1145 CE, which throws light on the picturesque landscape of the region.
In that nad,
with rows of rice fields from town to town;
with running channels from place to place;
with flower gardens filled with the fragrance of areca, punnaga, naga, vakula, champaka, jasmine, screw-pine, sandal, kanavira and white rose;
with groves of areca, cocoa-nut, plantains, jack, mango, rose-apple and other trees; with darkly shaded gardens of betel leaf, and plantations of sugar-cane trickling with juice; with lines of gardens of waving lotus and waterlilies;
most beautiful to behold, devoted to yogis and pleasure, a pleasing jewel-mirror to that nad, was Jidvalige-nad. In which the royal city was Uddhare; its praises.
