The Aravidu Dynasty of Vijayanagara, Vol. I v1.c10.54

v1.c10.54

³ Tirupati was known to the Portuguese under the name of Tripati or Trepeti. Tremele, a corruption of Tirumala, sounds like Trepeti; and although the distance of twelve leagues from St. Thome given by Faria y Sousa is not suggestive, nevertheless the likeness of the name and the celebrity of that temple in the whole of southern India, inclines me to identify the place that Martim Affonso de Sousa contemplated plundering with Tirupati. Even Thevenot *Travels*, p. 92, wrote, in the second half of the 17th century that "the famous Pagod of Trapety...is not far from Cape Comory."