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³ [Chikka Dēva Rājā (Chick Deo Raj) belonged to the Hindu Wodeyar (Udaiyar) dynasty, which had acquired the territory of Mysore on the dissolution of the Vijayanagar Empire in 1565. He ruled from 1672 to 1704 (Duff’s Chronology of India, 297). His cruelty was notorious (Wilks, Hist. Sketches, i. 128 f. ; Rice, Mysore, i. 366 f.). His nose-cutting exploits are referred to by many writers (Wheeler, Madras in the Olden Times, i. 104 ; Grose, 391 ; Nelson, Madura, pt. iii. 139 ; Gazetteer, Trichinopoly (1907), i. 55). See also Manucci (iv. 99, 460), and Thurston, E.N.S.I., 386 ff. These references are given by Crooke on p. 43, vol. ii of the Hakluyt edition of Fryer’s Travels (1909).]