183 பேராசிரியர் ந.சஞ்சீவி contained and irregular from Mana Madura on the south running up by the westward and north to Shencottah and Shanagrapoy and on the north and west sides large villages stretch deep into the jungle but no correct judgment can be formed of the extent of the woods until they have been regularly surveyed. The trees which grow in them are of the hardest nature, and it often happens that after the trunks of several have been cut asunder they are still supported in an upright position by the creepers which bind them together and the thick underwood surrounding. "indulgence only sevells the arrogance of the subject and no concessions can bind his attachment not even the triumphant issue of the campaign in Mysore could dispel the information from the minds of the Southern Poligars, for in the midst of our victories their licentiousness was as intolerable as at any former period." 6T&T IV Mr. Lushington's Report on Ramnad 24 December, 1800 "When Shashevarna Tevar died, he was succeeded by his son Muthu Woolaga Tevar whose refusal of Tribute to his Highness the Nabob of the Carnatic was the provocation which led to the equipment of a large army for his reduction as well as for the punishment of Ramalingam Satupattai of Ramnad who alike resisted the demand. Moottoo Woolaga Tevar was slain by a cannon ball in the Fort of Callayarcoil, and his surviving widow (the Heiress recently demised) field with her daughter to Verupatchee accompanied by the Predauni of her late husband and several of her relatives where they were also joined by two servants of the old Raja named Vella Murdoo and Chinna Murdoo the one his dogkeeper, the other his betel bearer. "These two men upon the death of Predauni which happened about six months after their flight from Shevagangha, took the lead in the Rance's affairs, and when Hyder Ally fell upon Arcot at the commencement of the war of 1780, the younger Murdoo now Shervagar Of Shevagangah having obtained from Syed Sahib, Tippoo's Kiiiadar of Dindugal, a small force of Horse and Foot desolated and burnt the
