after a Committee of officers had sat upon the multifarious collection, and solemnly reported the ancient arms unfit for use in modern warfare, the Government, after selecting the best for the Museum, ordered the residue to be broken up and sold as old iron. This was in 1863." It is recorded, in the Gazetteer of the Bellary district, that "in 1790 Lord Cornwallis, then Governor-General of India, entered into an alliance with the Marathas and the Nizam to reduce Tipu to order, and it was agreed that whatever territories should be acquired by them from Tipu should be equally divided between them. Certain specified poligars, among whom were the chiefs of Bellary, Rayadrug and Harpanahalli, were, however, to be left in possession of their districts. Tipu was reduced to submission in 1792, and by the treaty of that year he ceded half his territories to the allies. [10] Sandur was allotted to the Marathas, and a part of the Bellary district to the Nizam." The present Maratha chief of the little hill-locked Sandur State is a minor, whose name and titles are Raja Venkata Rao Rao Sahib Hindu Rao Ghorpade Senapati Mamalikat Madar. Of the eleven thousand inhabitants of the State, the various castes of Marathas number over a thousand. "Three families of them are Brahmans, who came to Sandur as officials with Siddoji Rao when he took the State from the Jaramali poligar. Except for two short intervals, Siddoji's descendants have held the State ever since. The others are grouped into three local divisions, namely, Khasgi, Kumbi, and Lekavali. The first of these consists of only some eight families, and constitutes the aristocracy of the State. Some of them came to Sandur from the Maratha country with Siva Rao and other rulers of the State, and they take the chief seats at Darbars and on other public occasions, and are permitted to dine and intermarry with the Raja's family. They wear the sacred thread of the Kshatriyas, belong to the orthodox Brahmanical gotras, have Brahmans as their purohits, observe many of the Brahmanical ceremonies, burn their dead, forbid widow re-marriage, and keep their womankind gosha. On the other hand, they do not object to drinking alcohol or to smoking, and they eat meat, though not beef. Their family god is the same as that of the Raja's family, namely, Martanda Manimallari, and they worship him in the temple in his honour which is in the Raja's palace, and make pilgrimages to his shrine at Jejuri near Poona. [It is noted by Monier-Williams [11] that 'a deification, Khando-ba (also called Khande-Rao), was a personage who lived in the neighbourhood of the hill Jejuri, thirty miles from Poona. He is probably a deification of some powerful Raja or aboriginal chieftain, who made himself useful to the Brahmans. He is now regarded as an incarnation of Siva in his form Mallari. The legend is that the god Siva descended in this form to destroy a powerful demon named Mallasura, who lived on the hill,