The Aravidu Dynasty of Vijayanagara, Vol. I v1.c10.28

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Rama Raya’s expeditions into the kingdom of Travancore will be dealt with in another chapter; but we must here observe that Sadasiva is called ‘the conqueror of all countries and Ceylon’ ⁶, and in another inscription he is said ‘to have looted Ceylon’ ⁷, which probably refers to the invasion of Ceylon by Krishnappa Nayaka of Madura, as we shall narrate later on. No other traces of this campaign of Sadasiva in Ceylon have come to our knowledge; but the anonymous chronicler of Golkonda supposes that Ceylon was under the sway of Vijayanagara, when, in narrating the battle of Raksas-Tagdi, he says "that Rama Raya summoned all his dependants from the banks of the Krishna as far as the Island of Ceylon" ¹.