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and misfortunes in Dravida, Srî Ranga Rayar, the representative of the house of Vijayanagar fled from that country in the year 1646 and took refuge with the Raja of Bednore, formerly a servant of his family." Wilks proceeds to see that about 1655, 42 this Raja availed himself of the name of the royal exile to exten:1 his own dominions and lay Biege to Srirangapatnam itself. But the prowess and liberality of Dodda Dêva Raj, the successor of Kanthirava, resulted in the Raja's discomfiture and retreat. After this, he continues, " we hear no more of Sri Ranga Rayeel or the house of Vijayanagar." (I, 36). It is evident that Wilks omits the career of Sri Ranga between 1646 and 1655. It is not improbable that, on the death of Kanthirava Narasa Raj, his successor Dodda Dêva Raj was reluctant to help the royal refugse, and that the latter therefore procee Ied to Bednore. The immediate result of this was, as we have already seen, the rise of Bednore against Mysoro. It ended in failure, and, Sri Ranga, who seem to have lived at Bilur, died sometimes after 1662. For an inscription of his name dated in that year records a gift to the Vyâsaraya Matha at Sósale.3
Vijayanagar history cloges here, and the supremacy of the Musalmans over the S. Indian dynasties begins. Even after this, it is true, inscriptions of the southern kings are sometimes in the names of supposel suzerain Rayas. Tirumal Naik, himself, for example gave in 1655 a grant at Kannadiputtûr, ten miles south-east of Udumalpet in the Coimbatore district, a grant in Sri Ranga's reign. And almost all the insoriptions of his successors contain the names of a Sri Raiga, a Venkata 46 or a Srî Râma. These three names occur not only among tho Madura records but also the Mysore ones; their mention is a purely formal affair and posse88 e8 no historio significance whatever. Obscure descendants of the once magnificent dynasty tried at times to obtain the good will of local sovereigns and the enterprising Companies of the European nations, and revive their old glory; but such attempts could hardly succeed. Nicolas Manucoi, for instance, tells us that a degcendant of the Rêyag negotiated with the French for assistance; but such attempts arouse the ouriozity and interest rather than his real serious attention.
SECTION VI.
The Second Mysore War. One great legacy of Tirumal's war with the Empire was the undying enmity between him and the U lavar of Myso:a. The batrayal of the latter to Golooads and Bijapur naturally exasperated Kanthirava's animosity and made him undertake an expedition against Tirumal. He knew that his antagonist had suffered more from the recent political storm than himself, and was consequently in a graster state of exhalation. Ticamal's army had been Borely thinned, his traagury exhaustel, his solliers diszontentsd, and his subjeots unable to bear the expenses of protracted warfare. It was with great ezze, therefore, that & Mysoce army burst through the frontiers of Madura, conquered the province of Satyam sagalam and
4 That Raiga was in his dyn 1913 till 1313 is p!)7315 v s tist in that year he built certain mantapds and made certain en lowmeats to the Govindaraja tanpto in that your. See Madr. Ep. Rp. 1914, p. 10% (Inson, 271 of 1914). • Antiquities, II, 28; Mys. Ep, Rep., 1911-12, p. 53.
4 Mys. Ep. Rep., 1915, p. 53. * See the list of them in Sowell's Forg. Emps., p. 234, Dodds Deva Raja Udayêr's inacriptions however do not name him. On the contrary, TR. 21, Om. 163, and other insons. are examples of nominal allegianos on the part of the local chiefs after 1663.
