South India and her Muhammadan Invaders c11.14

c11.14

Capture of Southern Mathra (Madura).—After five days, the royal canopy moved from Birdhul on Thursday, the 17th of Zi-l-ka’da, and arrived at ‘Kham’, and five days afterwards they arrived at the city Mathra (Madura), the dwelling-place of the brother of the Rai, Sundar Pāṇdya. They found the city empty for the Rai had fled with the Ranis, but had left two or three elephants in the temple of Jagnar ‘(Jaganath, rather Śokka-nātha?)’. The elephants were captured and the temple burnt.