Our Tour in Southern Indi

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER HI. reached Frazerpett about nine p.m. on the 2nd, having just before entered Coorg territory. Coorg, Kb? many other portions of this continent, has its curly mythical history; hut its legends, which are for the most part late inventions of the Brahmins, have not much interest for the general...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER HI. reached Frazerpett about nine p.m. on the 2nd, having just before entered Coorg territory. Coorg, Kb? many other portions of this continent, has its curly mythical history; hut its legends, which are for the most part late inventions of the Brahmins, have not much interest for the general reader. The Kauveri, its principal river, like the Ganges, is sacral to Shiva, whilst the Krishna and the Godavery an considered sacred to Vishnu. Three stone inscriptions have been found in Coorg, dating from the ninth century, at which time its rulers were probably of the Jain religion, as these inscriptions record jvttuits of land to Jain communities. In the tenth century the Hoysala Ballala dynasty became the paramount power in a considerable part of Southern India but was overthrown in 1310 by the Mahomedans under Kafur, the general of Ala-ud-din, the second Kiujy of tho house of Khilzi, or second Patan dynasty. Ooorjf, at that time, escaped the ravages of the Molw; but it is supposed to have been included in the territory acquired by Mahomed III., the son of Coorg?Hoic it Became a Separate Kingdom. 55 Toghlak, when in 1326 his forces reduced the Carnatic. Ferishta, the Persian historian, mentions that in the middle of the sixteenth century Coorg was subdivided amongst many chiefs, whom the secluded and almost inaccessible nature of that country enabled to exercise sovereign rights over their own people. Shortly after the fall of the Vijayanagar Empire in A.d. 1564, certain of its Palegars assumed virtual independence. The Palegars were vassal chiefs, who had had sundry tracts of land given them, on condition of paying tribute and rendering military service to the Kings of Vijayanagar. One of these chiefs was the Xaick of Keladi, Ikeri, or Bednur (now comprised in t...