Mysore and Coorg from the Inscriptions c14.14

c14.14

Of Muhammadan records, Sk 324 is one of the principal. This informs us that in 1632 the Bijāpur Sulṭān, Muhammad Ādil Shāh, son of Ibrāhim Ādil Shāh, erected the fort on the hill at the Māsūr Maḍag tank as a sign of victory in the attempt to repel the wicked infidels and to establish the auspicious Islām. Si 66b is a memorial to Malik Rihān, Subahdar of Sīra, dated 1651. DB 31 contains an interesting inscription of the time of the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb Ālamgīr, dated in 1691. Si 66a records the erection of the big mosque at Sīra in 1696. Ht 19 is a Mughal grant in the time of Dilāvar Khān, Navāb of Sīra, dated 1745.