South India and her Muhammadan Invaders c13.s1.1

c13.s1.1

account is given in some detail in connection with the lives of Piḷḷai Lokāchārya and Vēdānta Dēśika in the Sanskrit work Prapannāmṛtam, a work composed in the first decades of the seventeenth century. Some details of this story are found preserved in a Telugu work called Āchārya Sūkti Muktāvaḷi. One part of this story relating to the temple ritual is preserved in Koyiloḷuhu, which gives a date. A comparison of all these leaves no doubt that they refer to the same incident as the same characters figure in it, and the other details of the main story are practically the same. The date given in the Koyiloḷuhu is 1149 Śaka coupled with the name of the year Akshaya. The given year seems to be an error for 1249. The year Akshaya does not correspond to Śaka 1149 but does to Śaka 1249 except for a slight discrepancy. If this correction in the century is accepted the date would correspond to A.D. 1327-8, when an invasion was sent into the south by Muhammad-bin-Tughlak to re-assert the authority of the Muhammadans in the south. The story briefly is this: