Mysore and Coorg from the Inscriptions c8.s17.3

c8.s17.3

A fine Arabic and Persian inscription of 1632 (Sk 324) is of the reign of Muhammad-Ādil-Shāh, son of Ibrāhim-Ādil-Shāh, and records the erection of a fort on the hill at the Māsur-Maḍag tank on the northern frontier of Mysore in the Shikarpur tāluq, as a memorial of victory to that point over the wicked infidels. Other inscriptions of the same reign are Ci 43 and 44 of 1653, relating to the formation of a tank by the local governor under circumstances of special interest. In 1648 was built by the local chief the fort at Channarāya-paṭṭaṇa in the Hassan District, apparently in pursuance of a treaty with Bijāpur (Cn 158, 160, 165), no doubt to mark the limits of the two territories. At Sīra is an inscription on the tomb of Malik Rihān, Subahdār of Sīra, who died in 1651 (Si 66b). In 1703 and 1712 are records of the governor Gulām Ali Khān, in the former of which he decided a dispute between two Hindu gurus as to their respective disciples (Mb 98, Kl 74).