1844.] Political Events in the Carnatic, from 1564 to I6B7. 443 



II. 



50. The first Mahomedan conquerors of the Deckan, it will be recol- 

 Retrospective view Jected, were Patans, led on by the redoubted Allah, 



of the progress of the , c . . K , . ... 



Mahomedan invasions wno atter a senes of cruelties and rapacities that 

 Pata^T^iMoguls 1 : 6 raake the Mussulman name still an object of hor- 

 a. D. 1293. ror? * finally reduced the provinces South of the 

 Godavery into the form of a province, denominated from its relative 

 position to Delhi, the Deckan, or Dutchen (or South,) though errone- 

 ously, as the word is properly applicable, and understood by the 

 ancient Hindoo geographers! to comprehend the whole of the South 

 of India, or Dutchen, in contra-distinction to Hindostan, the country 

 North of the Nerbudda. 



51. It is not the intention here to detail the events by which their 

 Carnatic first con- power was finally^ established in the central parts, 



qUGl A. D. J324. while they were forced to leave very soon the 



Betja?ugg 3 ur b found. Southern provinces of Dravida and of Carnatic, &c. 



ed, and a new Hindoo t0 tne natives under a new dynasty of princes, who 



dynasty established. 



A. u. 1344. (from Memoirs now more clearly developed,) appear 



Resolution of the . 



Patan chiefs of Dec- to have been actually about that period only es- 



formeTatCufbunra. 6 tablished.§ The bold and ill-concerted measures 



A. D. 1338. f t ^ e succeeding Emperor, Mahomed III, and the 



attempt to remove the seat of imperial government to the centre at 



* The kine-slaying Turkalloo, are emphatically mentioned in one of the ancient 

 Kalla Canara Inscriptions at Basaral, dated A. D. 1135, or A. S. 1057. 



f As given in their several Boogolums, or geographical descriptions of the Hindoo 

 world. The Dutchen of the Hindoos comprehends the peninsula stretching South of the 

 Nerbudda and Maha-nuddi, and is the Dachen-abads of the Periplus, which signifies 

 the countries lying to the South. 



J Waruncull was taken in A. D. 1324, (Daw,) the MS. account of its dynasty agrees 

 in the most material facts. 



§ Beejanuggur, the capital of the new kingdom, was then only established, though 

 Ferishta asserts they had existed 7U0 years before, confounding it with the ancient 

 capital and kingdom of Callian, of which Beejal Hoy had been King. Door-Samooder, 

 (the capital of the Carnatic at this time, ) was taken in A. D. 1326, Daw, vol. — p. — 

 which is confirmed by inscriptions. Gampila also which appears to have been then a 

 capital of some consequence, situated not far from Beejanuggur, was taken at the same 

 time. The history of this kingdom is still obscure, but might probably be explained 

 by a translation of the life of Campila Kajah, a MS. in our possession. 



