A History of the Mahrattas v1.c7.3

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² [The Karnatak (Carnatic) is from Sansk. Karnātaka; Tamil, kar, ‘black,’ nādu, ‘country.’ The various uses of the word, and of Kanara, are discussed in Yule’s Hobson-Jobson, ed. 1903, pp. 152, 164. Throughout early Hindu literature Mysore is called Karnāta, or Karnātaka. ‘But the Muhammadans included in the name their conquests below the Ghāts as well: and the English, going a step further, erroneously restricted it to the low country. Hence Carnatic and Canara now designate, in European works of geography, regions which never bore these names; while Mysore, the proper Karnātaka or Carnatic, is not so called’ (Rice, Mysore, vol. i, p. 1 n.). In the map accompanying the first edition of Grant Duff’s work the Carnatic is shown as including all the country on the western side of the peninsula from a point north of Dhārwār to Seringapatam in the south. See I.G. Bom., 1909, i, 194-6.]