IKERY, formerly a town of the south of India, and province of Mysore, of great note, and said by the natives, with their usual exaggeration, to have contained 100,000 inhabitants. It was for a long period the residence and capital of a dynasty of Hindu princes, whose coins are still in existence. It is now in ruins, not, however, from the devastation of war, or any other calamity, but merely from the removal of the court to Bednore. Long. 76. 7. E. Lat. 14. 6. N.