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9. These successes as usual led to further encroachments, and an army 

 was sent against Pilconda, whence "Nagatadri is stated to have retired 

 A. D. 1567. to Chunderghury ;" but this is presumed to be erroneously 

 stated, as Timma Rajah was settled there ten years before. These events, 

 however, are confirmed by Hindoo authorities, and the Moslem writers 

 attribute to the corruption of the Bargee chiefs the relief of that place, 

 what the Hindoos ascribe rather to the intervention of their Gods and 

 to the valor of Jagadeo-Rayel, who is supposed to have by his heroism 

 saved the place ; in consequence of which, an extensive grant of lands 

 was added to his government,* of forty- eight provinces ; the whole ex- 

 tending from the Baramahl West, across the upper country to Ad- 

 jampoor and Holla Honoor in the modern Bednore, including the 

 whole of that extensive tract; excepting Seringapatam and its 

 dependencies, which were still under the feeble rule of a viceroy re- 

 lated to the ancient Rayel government. This government of Jagadeo's 

 remained in that family with some changes till it was ultimately ab- 

 A. D. 1579. sorbed in the growing fortunes of the Mysore Wuddiers,t 

 A. S. 1501. w hi cn at this time comes to be noticed by its rising op- 

 position to the wretched remains of the ancient authority, though 

 it yet only occupied the little district about the present capital of My- 

 sore, then scarcely known by that name. 



10. The excesses of the Beejapoor Maratta jagheerdarsj at this time, 

 A. D. 15. w ho bad been stationed about Beejanuggur, or rather 

 A. s. 1500. at Anagoondy, to secure the new conquests, attracted 

 the notice of that government; nor could they be suppressed till 

 prompt measures and even treachery was used, which drove some 

 of the more able of the Hindoo chiefs into the service of the Carnatic 

 princes, and this contributed to give a breathing to the last remnants of 

 the Hindoo monarchy. 



11. The suspension of the Mahomedan§ conquest was further pro- 



* See Denkanicotta and Chinapatam Memoirs, and several Memoirs and Districts. 

 It appears to have stretched across the peninsula from Barramahl (which it embraced) 

 to Azimpoor, now part of Bednore. A list of them is inserted in the District Memoirs. 



f See Account of the origin of the Mysore and Bednore family. 



X The Berjee chiefs or Bargeers; soldiers mounted on horses, the property of the 

 Circar.— See Scott, Vol. I, p. 305. 



§ The Beejapoor officers never extended their conquests along the Western coasts 

 further than Honore, Cundapoor, and I believe Malabar or Malliallum was never sub- 

 jugated by the Mahomedans till Hyder's time. 



