Mysore and Coorg from the Inscriptions c8.s19.16

c8.s19.16

¹ Dādōji bhidi Jaitaji-Jasavatōs sarvānga-nāsā-chhidi. The latter part of the phrase might possibly be rendered—"cut off the noses of all arms." This was a practice adopted by the Mysoreans in order to instil terror into the enemy. See Manucci, Storia do Mogor (Irvine's translation and additional notes, vol. iv.) But may it not have been the survival of an old Indian custom? For Professor Macdonell, in writing of early Sanskrit medical works (Imp. Gaz. Ind., vol. ii.), says—"Probably the only valuable contribution to surgery to which India can lay claim is the art of forming artificial noses. This operation has been borrowed in modern times from India, where Englishmen became acquainted with it in the 18th century.