 The territories controlled by the other poligars were also changing fast . Some , such as <unk> Gowda of <unk> , expanded theirs by performing services for the Vijayanagara monarch and receiving territorial rewards . In <unk> Gowda 's case , the rewards consisted of a tract of land which , from his base in <unk> , extended west to Hoskote and east to <unk> . Others , such as the Wodeyars of Ummattur and of Mysore ( now Mysore district ) , achieved the same end by ignoring the monarch altogether , and annexing small states in their vicinity . ( See Map 3 . ) Through much of the 16th century , the chiefs of Ummattur in particular had carried on " unceasing aggression " against their neighbors , even in the face of punitive raids by the Vijayanagara armies . In the end , as a compromise , the son of a defeated Ummattur chief was appointed the viceroy at Seringapatam . The Wodeyars of Mysore too were eying surrounding land ; by 1644 , when the Wodeyars unseated the powerful <unk> of Piriyapatna , not only had they become the dominant presence in the southern regions of what later became Mysore state , but the Vijayanagara empire was also on its last legs , having only a year 's life left . ( See Map 6 . ) 
