1844.] Political Events in the Carnatic, from 1564 to 1687. 591 



tries. Even the Emperor appears to have courted his neutrality at 

 least, and only four years before his death, the title of Jug- 

 Deo-Rayel, and a royal signet being conferred on him. 

 The Naik of Maissur* for the first time assumed the honors of royalty 

 by ascending a throne ; a measure which so wily a politician would 

 scarcely have ventured on without the assurance of the Emperor's con- 

 currence ; or at least, that it would not be followed by the vengeance 

 exercised towards his brother of Bednore some years before, for an ill- 

 timed assumption of the same distinctions.! 



25. We may then consider the territory, the title, and the resources 

 of Mysore fully established at the demise of this prince; its extent 



being 28,416 square miles and 101 districts of a revenue^ of ~ 



under an economy still more productive than that of the present day, 

 if allowance be made for ruined villages and the decrease of the value 

 of money since. This in the midst of a fierce and bloody war, which 

 after ravaging the whole Deckan for 10 years, and at this moment pro- 

 mising no termination, with the new Mogul government (still contend- 

 ing for the paramount authority it had scarcely established) on the 



T . . B , ., North and East, the Bednore, Chittledroog and 

 Limits of the My- _ ° 



sore dominions in Malabar chiefs, and the weak state of Trichinopolv 

 1704, see Map No. 2. . . _ , ' , • ,„ , , " 



covering it from the West to the South, entirely in- 

 sulated by itself on the height of the Ghauts, at the death of Chick 

 Deo, Mysore commanded a respect which was felt by the most power- 

 ful, and kept its rivals among the native chiefs of the Carnatic in 

 awe. 



APPENDIX No. 1. 



Historical Account of the establishment of the Europeans at Madras or 

 Chinnapatam, from a Marhatta Manuscript, communicated by one 

 of the ancient Provincial Officers in April 1802. Translated by 

 Cavelly Venkata Boria, Btamin. 



The Raja Streeranga Rayel reigned for the space of six years and two 

 A. D. 1639. months, from the Fusly 1049 up to the month of Avanee 

 A. S. 1562. of 1056. In this year Poonamelle was under the 



* Also the Madras Records, A. D. — where he is denominated the Naik of 



Maissur. 

 f Bednore Memoir. 

 + See list of the Mysore districts at this period, Appendix No. 6. 



