- Crystal, David (2001), A Dictionary of Language, Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. Pp. 392, ISBN 0226122034
Quote: "Kannada ... with inscriptions dating from the late 6th century and a literary tradition from the 9th century."
- Stein, Burton (1980), Peasant State and Society in Medieval South India, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. Pp. 550, ISBN 0195610652
Quote: "Telugu inscriptions date from the fifth century and Kannada inscriptions from the sixth." (p. 393)
- Editors (1993), "Kannada literature", in MacHenry, Robert (ed.), The New Encyclopaedia Britannica
{{citation}}:|last=has generic name (help)Quote: "The earliest records in Kannada are inscriptions dating from the 6th century AD onward." (p. 720) Note: As I have explained earlier, the articles on Dravidian literature by A. K. Ramanujan and on Dravidian languages by K. Zvelebil, written in 1979 for the 1985 edition, did date Halmidi to c. 450; however, by 1993 (in light of the emerging consensus), the article on Kannada literature had decided to change the wording in favor of "earliest inscriptions" and "6th century."
- Dalby, Andrew (2004), Dictionary of Languages: The definitive reference to more than 400 languages, Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press. Pp. 800
Quote: "Known from inscriptions of the 6th century and after, Kannada has a surviving literature from the 9th century onwards ..." (p. 300).
- Habib, Irfan (2000), "India", in Al-Bhakhit, M. A.; Bazin, L. A.; Cissoko, S. M. (eds.), History of Humanity, Volume IV: from the Seventh to the Sixteenth century, Paris: UNESCO and London: Routledge. Pp. xxiii, 682, 44 maps, 138 plates, pp. 398–410, ISBN 0415093082
Quote: "Developments in the south were notably different. Tamil first appears in inscriptions around the time of Christ and afterwards in the Sangam texts as a literary language. In our period, it largely maintained its position, although Sanskrit tended to be the language of the priesthood and formal documents. The first inscription of Kannada belongs to the sixth or seventh century. Literature ..." (p. 814)
- Salomon, Richard (1998), Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and Other Indo-Aryan Languages, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. Pp. 378, ISBN 0195099842
Quote: "The earliest Kannada epigraphs, such as Halmidi (S. Srikantha Sastri, Sources of Karnataka History, 20) and Badami Vaisnava cave (IA 10, 59-69) inscriptions, date from around the late sixth or early seventh century A.D. (p. 106)"
- Sircar, D. C. (1965), Indian Epigraphy, Delhi: Indian Epigraphy. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publications. Pp. 475., ISBN 0120811666
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- Gai, G. S. (1992), Studies in Indian history, epigraphy, and culture, Dharwad: Shrihari Prakashana. Pp. xi, 346
Quote: (Section: Halmidi Inscription of Kakustha-Battora - A Fresh Study pp. 297-306) "Now, both the present Halmidi inscription and the Talagunda record may be referred to, on palaeo-graphical grounds, to the end of the fifth century A. D. or the beginning of the 6th century A.D."
- Pollock, Sheldon, Language of the Gods in the World of Men
{{citation}}: Text "Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press" ignored (help)Quote: "Aside from a four-line document found at the village of Halmidi, undated but assigned now to about 500 and thus representing the first extant instance of inscribed Kannada ... (p. 331-332)" Also, Quote: "(IA 10:60. The Halmidi inscription (MAR 1936: 72 ff.) has been reconsidered in Venkatachala Sastry 1999 and Gai 1991. (p. 332)"