The Aravidu Dynasty of Vijayanagara, Vol. I v1.c13.1

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SUMMARY—1. Idea of the Nayakship of Madura.—2. Erection of the Palaiyams.—3. War against the five Pandyas.—4. Officers of Visvanatha. 1 His minister Ariyanatha Mudaliyar.—5. Rama Raya Vitthala appointed Viceroy of the South. His campaign of 1544 against Travancore.—6. St. Francis Xavier stops the Telugu army.—7. Consequent friendship between St. Xavier and the Travancore ruler.—8. Peace between Travancore and Vijayanagara.—9. First expedition of Vitthala to the Fishery Coast.—10. Vitthala’s Viceroyalty in the South. Relations with Visvanatha Nayaka.—11. Campaign of 1549 against Coromandel. Murder of Fr. Criminali.—12. Campaigns of 1551 and 1552.—13. A combined attack with the Muhammadans of Calicut against Punney Kayal in 1553.—14. Conflict of Travancore and Vijayanagara on the Fishery Coast.—15. End of Vitthala’s Viceroyalty. A criticism of it.—16. An expedition of Visvanatha against Punney Kayal in 1560.—17. Accession of Krishnappa Nayaka I and death of Visvanatha. A criticism of his reign. His relations with the Empire.—18. Krishnappa’s wars against Tumbichchi Nayaka and the King of Kandi.