The Aravidu Dynasty of Vijayanagara, Vol. I v1.c10.24

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2. Who were these chiefs that were defeated and killed by Rama Raya? Ferishta relates that Rama Raya ‘had reduced all the Rajas of the Karnatik to his yoke’ ². The whole Canara country south of Vijayanagara was the original Karnatik of those days. The *Sivatattvaratnakara* of Keladi Basavabhupala confirms the statement of Ferishta in the description of a campaign planned by Rama Raya in the present Shimoga District. It says that the Regent sent Sadasiva Nayaka, the influential chief of the Keladi family, to subdue the barbarian Nayakas of Chandragutti; the strong hill-fort was successfully captured by Sadasiva and the Dasyu-nayakas thereafter acknowledged the Emperor of Vijayanagara ³. Accordingly, he is said in one of his inscriptions to be ruling over Araga ⁴, the capital of one of the early Viceroyalties of Vijayanagara, comprising some districts of the present kingdom of Mysore and the Canara country from Goa to Mangalore ⁴.