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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.2375#0418
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MYSORE, CANARA, AND MALABAR,
405
leading down to a Tank or river. It formerly belonged to the CHAPTER
Hasina district; but when the conquests of the Mysore family k^^^j
extended that length, it was annexed to Bailuru. Before this Ma?15*
family rose to power, Hasina, Grama, Chin -raya-pattana, and Na-
rasingha-pura, belonged to the ancestors of Krishtuppa Nayaka, the
Bull Raja. At Hal/oray are the ruins of a temple dedicated toBira
Linga, a deity of the Curubaru. There are at it two inscriptions on
stone. One of them is partly legible; and of all that could be made
out in a connected form I procured a copy, which has been delivered
to the government of Bengal. It is dated in the year of Sal. lllrj,
and in the reign of Boca Raja, of whom I have no where else
heard.
In this vicinity robbers have for many years been very numerous. Amy, or
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(idiey are the farmers in the Malayar, or hilly country to the west- robbers.
ward, and are all of Marattah extraction, on which account they
are by the Brdhmans called Aray; for, in the Arabi or Tamul
language, that is the name of a Marattah. These ruffians come in
bands of from twelve to twenty men, and steal, or rob, whatever
comes in their way. Murder and torture are frequently added to
their other outrages. At present, this class of men have entirely
given up agriculture, and have entered into the service of Krish-
tuppa, the Bull Raja ; nor are the troops of the Mysore Raja able to
prevent small parties of them from issuing out of the woods, and
committing occasional depredations.
loth May,—I went three Sultany cosses to Hasina, which derives May \6.
its name from one of the Saktis that is the village deity (Grama of t{,e
Devata). The country through which I passed is fine Ragy land, countr3V
but very little of it is cultivated.
In good^ rice-land at Hasina, twenty seeds are reckoned the usual
produce. In this district, since the, Marattah invasion, not above a
fourth part of the former cultivators remain.
The natives say, that formerly the rains were so copious, that by change of
means of small Tanks a great part of the country could be cultivated chraate,
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MYSORE, CANARA, AND MALABAR,
405
leading down to a Tank or river. It formerly belonged to the CHAPTER
Hasina district; but when the conquests of the Mysore family k^^^j
extended that length, it was annexed to Bailuru. Before this Ma?15*
family rose to power, Hasina, Grama, Chin -raya-pattana, and Na-
rasingha-pura, belonged to the ancestors of Krishtuppa Nayaka, the
Bull Raja. At Hal/oray are the ruins of a temple dedicated toBira
Linga, a deity of the Curubaru. There are at it two inscriptions on
stone. One of them is partly legible; and of all that could be made
out in a connected form I procured a copy, which has been delivered
to the government of Bengal. It is dated in the year of Sal. lllrj,
and in the reign of Boca Raja, of whom I have no where else
heard.
In this vicinity robbers have for many years been very numerous. Amy, or
~, , ,, - „■- , .... ;1 Marattah
(idiey are the farmers in the Malayar, or hilly country to the west- robbers.
ward, and are all of Marattah extraction, on which account they
are by the Brdhmans called Aray; for, in the Arabi or Tamul
language, that is the name of a Marattah. These ruffians come in
bands of from twelve to twenty men, and steal, or rob, whatever
comes in their way. Murder and torture are frequently added to
their other outrages. At present, this class of men have entirely
given up agriculture, and have entered into the service of Krish-
tuppa, the Bull Raja ; nor are the troops of the Mysore Raja able to
prevent small parties of them from issuing out of the woods, and
committing occasional depredations.
loth May,—I went three Sultany cosses to Hasina, which derives May \6.
its name from one of the Saktis that is the village deity (Grama of t{,e
Devata). The country through which I passed is fine Ragy land, countr3V
but very little of it is cultivated.
In good^ rice-land at Hasina, twenty seeds are reckoned the usual
produce. In this district, since the, Marattah invasion, not above a
fourth part of the former cultivators remain.
The natives say, that formerly the rains were so copious, that by change of
means of small Tanks a great part of the country could be cultivated chraate,