"By September 1785, with a determination to punish the Kodavas for what they had been doing, Tipu ordered the commander or sipahadar of one of his kushoons (infantry brigades of five thousand men), Zain-ul-abidin Shoostri to invade Coorg and terminate the insurgency. In his later dated 17 September 1785 to Shoostri, Tipu writes: It has lately been represented to us, that the Koorgs have committed some excesses at Zuferabad. We have, in consequence, written to the Buktshy [Bakshi] of the Jyshe [army], to dispatch you with two guns and your kushoon to that place. He is also ordered to advance you Two Thousand Behadury pagodas, on account of the pay of your kushoon, as well as a thousand rupees, to be applied in compensations to the wounded . . . you will proceed, as directed above, to Zuferabad; to the Foujdar of which place, Zynul Aabideen, we have addressed another letter, which is enclosed. You are, in conjunction with him, to make a general attack on the Koorgs; when having put to the sword, or made prisoners of the whole of them, both the slain and the prisoners are to be made Musulmans [emphasis mine]. In short, you must so manage matters, as to prevent them from exciting any further sedition or disturbance."