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A JOUHNEY FROM MADRAS THROUGH
Hasina.
CHAPTER for rice. These Tanks were only sufficient to contain eight or ten
days water, and to supply the fields when such short intervals of
fair weather occurred. For forty years past, however, a change
having taken place in the climate, no rice has been cultivated,
except by means of large reservoirs. The truth of this allegation is
confirmed by the number of small Tanks, the ruins of which are now
visible; and by the plots of ground levelled for rice that are near
these Tanks, and which are now quite waste.
Hasina formerly stood at some distance from its present situation,
toward the south ; but one of the Anagundi RAyarus, being here on
a hunting party, discovered, by the usual means of the hare turning
on his dogs, that the place where it now stands was male ground.
He therefore built a fort on the auspicious ground ; and, while he
was thus employed, an image of Siva fose out of the ground, and
was called Virupacsheswara, after the celebrated idol at Anagundi. A
temple was of course built over the image, and it is called Siddhbs-
wara. At this temple two inscriptions on stone remain. The one,
in the reign of A chut a and Krishna Rayaru, is dated in the year of
Sal. 1454. The other is in the reign of Sedasiva Rdya, son of Achuta
Rdya, and is dated in the year of Sal. 1412, but that is evidently a
mistake of the copyist for 1512, the Karnata cyphers for four and
five having a strong resemblance. Copies of these inscriptions also
'have been delivered to the government of Bengal. The place was
originally in the Polyum, or feudatory estate.of the ancestors of the
Bull Raja. It was taken from them by Renadulla Khan, a Rattan,
whose family held it sixty years. This family of Mussulmans seems
to be the same with that which the Brdhmans of Bailuru confounded
with the prince who destroyed Vira Belalla Rdya. The Mussulmans
were expelled by the Sivabhactars of Ikeri, who held Hasina a
hundred years. The Mysore family then kept it ten years ; but were
obliged to restore it again to the descendants of Sedasiva, the chief
•of Ikeri. Thirty years afterwards, hovever, they finally annexed it
to their territories, and this happened 180 years ago. The whole
A JOUHNEY FROM MADRAS THROUGH
Hasina.
CHAPTER for rice. These Tanks were only sufficient to contain eight or ten
days water, and to supply the fields when such short intervals of
fair weather occurred. For forty years past, however, a change
having taken place in the climate, no rice has been cultivated,
except by means of large reservoirs. The truth of this allegation is
confirmed by the number of small Tanks, the ruins of which are now
visible; and by the plots of ground levelled for rice that are near
these Tanks, and which are now quite waste.
Hasina formerly stood at some distance from its present situation,
toward the south ; but one of the Anagundi RAyarus, being here on
a hunting party, discovered, by the usual means of the hare turning
on his dogs, that the place where it now stands was male ground.
He therefore built a fort on the auspicious ground ; and, while he
was thus employed, an image of Siva fose out of the ground, and
was called Virupacsheswara, after the celebrated idol at Anagundi. A
temple was of course built over the image, and it is called Siddhbs-
wara. At this temple two inscriptions on stone remain. The one,
in the reign of A chut a and Krishna Rayaru, is dated in the year of
Sal. 1454. The other is in the reign of Sedasiva Rdya, son of Achuta
Rdya, and is dated in the year of Sal. 1412, but that is evidently a
mistake of the copyist for 1512, the Karnata cyphers for four and
five having a strong resemblance. Copies of these inscriptions also
'have been delivered to the government of Bengal. The place was
originally in the Polyum, or feudatory estate.of the ancestors of the
Bull Raja. It was taken from them by Renadulla Khan, a Rattan,
whose family held it sixty years. This family of Mussulmans seems
to be the same with that which the Brdhmans of Bailuru confounded
with the prince who destroyed Vira Belalla Rdya. The Mussulmans
were expelled by the Sivabhactars of Ikeri, who held Hasina a
hundred years. The Mysore family then kept it ten years ; but were
obliged to restore it again to the descendants of Sedasiva, the chief
•of Ikeri. Thirty years afterwards, hovever, they finally annexed it
to their territories, and this happened 180 years ago. The whole