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| Keywords: Verapadroog, in the Barramah'l.jpg en Artist and engraver Daniell Thomas 1749-1840 Medium Aquatint coloured Date 1802 Plate 13 from the third set of Thomas and William Daniell's 'Oriental Scenery ' Virabhadradrug is one of the smaller of the South Indian fortified hills known as 'droogs' or 'drugs' from 'durga' Sanskrit for 'fort ' and is situated in the Baramahal the hilly district between the Mysore plateau and the plains of Tamil Nadu As the artists remarked 'Verapadroog with respect to its form and situation is one of the most romantic forts of the Barramah'l Its sides are very thickly clothed with wood a considerable way up and the lower part is so surrounded by an impenetrable jungle that the tygers which are said to be very numerous here find a secure and undisturbed shelter ' When the Daniells visited it in 1792 the soldiers of Tipu Sultan were in course of evacuating it at the end of the Third Mysore War 1802 http //www europeana eu/portal/search html query virabhadradurgam Daniell Thomas PD-old-100 Uploaded with UploadWizard Tamil Nadu in the 1800s Geography of Krishnagiri district | ||||
