Seringa pat am

(se-ring-ah-pah-tam',) [Hind., " City of Vishnu,"] a fortified city of India, Brit. pres. of Madras, and former C. of Mysore, on the Cavery, 250 m. W.S.W. of the city of Madras. The celebrated Rajah of My sore, Tippoo Saib, fell in the carrying of this place by a ault by the British in 1799. Pop. 12,750. [s. 815]