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The Temple at Seringapatam Seringapatam is a town of sonic ten thousand inhabitants and is situ- ated in the Mysore District of Southern India. It tens once the capital of the rajas of Mysore, but it fell before the English at the end of the eighteenth century and yielded its prestige as capital to the city of Mysore itself. The great temple of I'ishnu Sri Ranga, with its tozi'ering front rising tier after tier, is one of the notcicortiiy sites of Seringapatam.