Mysore and Coorg from the Inscriptions c8.s17.1

c8.s17.1

But it was in 1644 also that, as the result of the Bijāpur conquests in the late Vijayanagar possessions in Mysore and adjacent countries, the Carnatic Bijāpur Balāghāṭ and Pāyanghāṭ provinces were formed under the governorship of Shāhji, father of the celebrated Mahratta leader Śivaji. The latter, after his father's death, overran all these *jāgīr* provinces to enforce his claim to a half-share. Records of this Mahratta domination are found in inscriptions of Śivaji's son Sambhōji or Sambhājī, dated 1663 and 1680 (Kl 219, CB 32), of Sambhājī's wife (Kl 227, 224, 254), and Sambhājī's sons (Mb 154, Ct 54), down to 1693. The most interesting is the one on the wall of a temple on the summit of Nandidroog (CB 32), which gives a brief but graphic description of this great stronghold.