[342]--Other accounts say that Venkatadri was killed in the battle,and that Tirumala alone of the three brothers survived.Firishtah only wrote from hearsay,and was perhaps misinformed.Probably for "Venkatadri"should be read "Tirumala."[343]--Firishtah wrote this towards the close of the century.
[344]--"South Indian Inscriptions,"Hultzsch,i.69;IND.ANT.,xxii.136.
[345]--The pedigree is taken from the EPIGRAPHIA INDICA,iii.238.Iam not responsible for the numbers attached so the names.Thus Ishould prefer to call Rama Raya II."Rama I.,"since his ancestors do not appear to have reigned even in name.But I take the table as Dr.Hultzsch has given it.See the Kondyata grant of 1636(IND.ANT.,xiii.125),the Vilapaka grant of 1601(ID.ii.371),and the Kallakursi grant of 1644(ID.xiii.153),also my "Lists of Antiquities,Madras,"i.35--an inscription of 1623(No.30)at Ellore.
[346]--Scott,i,303.
[347]--Briggs,iii pp.435--438.
[348]--According to the Kuniyur plates (EPIG.IND,iii.236),Rama III.,Tirumala's third son,was not king.
[349]--EPIG.IND.,iv.269--The Vilapaka Grant.
[350]--Traditionary history at Adoni relates that the governor of the fortress appointed by Sultan Ali Adil about A.D.1566was Malik Rahiman Khan,who resided there for nearly thirty-nine years.His tomb is still kept up by a grant annually made by the Government in continuation of the old custom,and is in good preservation,having an establishment with a priest and servants.Navab Siddi Masud Khan was governor when the great mosque,called the Jumma Musjid,was completed (A.D.1662).The Bijapur Sultan,the last of his line,sent to him a marble slab with an inscription and a grant of a thousand bold pieces.The slab is still to be seen on one of the arches in the interior,and the money was spent in gilding and decorating the building.Aurangzib of Delhi annexed Bijapur in 1686,and appointed Navab Ghazi-ud-Din Khan governor of Adoni,who had to take the place from the Bijapur governor,Siddi Masud Khan.This was done after a fight,in consequence of the Delhi troops firing (blank)on the great mosque from their guns;which so terrified the governor,who held the Jumma Musjid dearer than his life,that he surrendered.The new governor's family ruled till 1752,when the country was given to Bassalat Jung of Haidarabad.He died and was buried here in 1777,and his tomb is still maintained.The place was ceded to the English by the Nizam in 1802with the "Ceded Districts."[351]--Briggs,iii.416,ff.
[352]--"Lists of Antiquities,Madras"(Sewell),ii.6,7,Nos.45,46.
[353]--OP.CIT.,ii 139--140.
[354]--The Italian traveller Pietro della Valle was at Ikkeri at the close of the year 1623,and gives an interesting account of all that he saw,and what befell him there.He went with an embassy from Goa to that place."This Prince VENKTAPA NAIEKA was sometime Vassal and one of the ministers of the great King of VIDIA NAGAR ...but after the downfall of the king ...Venktapa Naieka ...remain'd absolute Prince of the State of which he was Governour,which also,being a good souldier,he hath much enlarged."[355]--CARTARIO DOS JESUITOS (Bundle 36,packet 95,No.22,in the National Archives at Lisbon,ARCHIVO DA TORRE DO TOMBO).Compare Antonio Bocarro,DECADA xiii.p.296.Mr.Lopes also refers me to an as yet inedited MS.,DOCUMENTOS REMETTIDOS DA INDIA,or LIVROS DASMONCOES,t.i.359,and t.ii.370--371,as relating to the same tragic events.
[356]--See the genealogical table on p.214.Venkata I.was son of Tirumala,the first real king of the fourth dynasty.The nephew,"Chikka Raya,"may have been Ranga III.,"Chikka"(young)being,as Barradas tells us,a name usually given to the heir to the throne.In that case Ranga's son,Rama IV.,"one of several brothers,"would be the boy who survived the wholesale massacre related in the letter.
[357]--The name "Chikka Raya"in Kanarese means "little"or "young"Raya.
[358]--Chandragiri.
[359]--It is not known to whom this refers.The name is perhaps "Obala."[360]--This youth was only a great-nephew of Jaga Raya's by a double marriage.His wife was niece of King Venkata,and therefore by marriage niece of Queen Bayama,who was Jaga Raya's daughter.
[361]--BREDOS.See note,p.245.
[362]--Perhaps Ite Obalesvara.
[363]--Chinna Obala Raya.
[364]--Written in 1616.
[365]--This was Muttu Virappa,Nayakka (or Naik)of Madura from 1609to 1623.Mr.Nelson ("The Madura Country")mentions that in his reign there was a war with Tanjore.Nuniz,writing in 1535,does not mention Madura as amongst the great divisions of the Vijayanagar kingdom;and this coincides with the history as derived from other sources.But by 1614the Naik of Madura had become very powerful,though the people still occasionally recognised their old sovereigns,the Pandiyans,one of whom is mentioned as late as 1623("Sketch of the Dynasties of Southern India,"85).
[366]--Trichinopoly.
[367]--Close to Madras,often called "Melliapor"by the Portuguese,its native name being Mailapur.Linschoten,writing at the end of the sixteenth century,a few years earlier than the date of the events described,says,"This towne ...is now the chiefe cittie of Narsinga and of the coast of Choromandel."[368]--See above,p.214.
[369]--"Sketch of the Dynasties of Southern India,"p.112.
[370]--"He"here is Domingo Paes.
[371]--The "kingdom of Narsinga"is the name often given by the Portuguese and others to Vijayanagar.
[372]--The term here is limited to the small territory of Portuguese India immediately round the city of Goa.Thus Linschoten (A.D.1583)wrote,"At the end of Cambaya beginneth India,AND the lands of Decam and Cuncam,"meaning that immediately south of the territories of Cambay began those of Portuguese India,while other countries on the border were the Dakhan and the Konkan.
[373]--In Portugal.
