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MYSORE, CANARA, AND MALABAR. 81
was cultivated than low places, which wind through among the CHAPTER
swelling lands, and are very narrow. The higher part, which is v^J^^/
bare, seems to be capable of cultivation for cotton or dry grains. Feb- ?•
Nearer Carculla the hills are steep and rocky, and some of them are
overgrown with trees. The road is wide, and has a fine row of trees
on each side. In this part of the country are many traces of inclo-
sures; and it is said, that formerly there were here several villages,
which have been deserted ever since Hyder raised the taxes.
Carculla is an open town, containing about 200 houses, which Bymsu Wo..
mostly belong to shopkeepers. Near it are the ruins of the palace caQjain
of the Byrasu JVodears, the most powerful of the Jain Rajas of Tu- -%"*•
lava. The Jain, who are the chief inhabitants of the place, do not
pretend that their prince had any authority over the Rajas of the
south; the whole tradition, therefore, at Hosso-betta seems to be
erroneous. That place, however, may have belonged to the Byrasu
JVodears; as the territories of the Rdjds of Tulava were probably as
much intermixed as those of the chiefs of Malaydla. The reve-
nues of this family, it is said, amounted to 17,000 Pagodas, or
68501. 4*. l\d.
The Jain altogether deny the creation of Tulava by Parasu Rama, Boctnner
or any gift of it made by that personage to the Brdkmans. From a tLeir a
book called Amonoro Charitra, which gives an account of Jenadutta
Rdya, the ancestor of the Byrasu JVodears, they say that he was born
at Uttara Madura (the Matra of Major Rennell), near the Jamuna
river. He was of the family of the sun; and, having incurred the
displeasure of the Raja his father, in order to avoid being put to
death, was obliged to fly. Having come to a village near Nagara,
he founded a city named Hombucha, and soon after conquered a
place called Culisha. He afterwards descended to Sisila, near Subhra-
mani, and finally established himself at Carculla. His son was
the first Byrasu JVodear, and all his descendants assumed that title.
The book gives no account of the time when these events hap-
pened, nor of the princes who were previously in the country. In
Vol. III. M
was cultivated than low places, which wind through among the CHAPTER
swelling lands, and are very narrow. The higher part, which is v^J^^/
bare, seems to be capable of cultivation for cotton or dry grains. Feb- ?•
Nearer Carculla the hills are steep and rocky, and some of them are
overgrown with trees. The road is wide, and has a fine row of trees
on each side. In this part of the country are many traces of inclo-
sures; and it is said, that formerly there were here several villages,
which have been deserted ever since Hyder raised the taxes.
Carculla is an open town, containing about 200 houses, which Bymsu Wo..
mostly belong to shopkeepers. Near it are the ruins of the palace caQjain
of the Byrasu JVodears, the most powerful of the Jain Rajas of Tu- -%"*•
lava. The Jain, who are the chief inhabitants of the place, do not
pretend that their prince had any authority over the Rajas of the
south; the whole tradition, therefore, at Hosso-betta seems to be
erroneous. That place, however, may have belonged to the Byrasu
JVodears; as the territories of the Rdjds of Tulava were probably as
much intermixed as those of the chiefs of Malaydla. The reve-
nues of this family, it is said, amounted to 17,000 Pagodas, or
68501. 4*. l\d.
The Jain altogether deny the creation of Tulava by Parasu Rama, Boctnner
or any gift of it made by that personage to the Brdkmans. From a tLeir a
book called Amonoro Charitra, which gives an account of Jenadutta
Rdya, the ancestor of the Byrasu JVodears, they say that he was born
at Uttara Madura (the Matra of Major Rennell), near the Jamuna
river. He was of the family of the sun; and, having incurred the
displeasure of the Raja his father, in order to avoid being put to
death, was obliged to fly. Having come to a village near Nagara,
he founded a city named Hombucha, and soon after conquered a
place called Culisha. He afterwards descended to Sisila, near Subhra-
mani, and finally established himself at Carculla. His son was
the first Byrasu JVodear, and all his descendants assumed that title.
The book gives no account of the time when these events hap-
pened, nor of the princes who were previously in the country. In
Vol. III. M