The Aravidu Dynasty of Vijayanagara, Vol. I v1.c13.154

v1.c13.154

Kayal was one of the cities attacked by the Badagas, while the house and boat of the Portuguese captain of the place were set on fire; and that the aforesaid captain fled to the islands with the rest of the inhabitants of the coast ¹. Tuticorin was also swept away by the Badagas ² and was probably made the temporary residence of Vitthala, since the ambassador of Unni Kerala Varma was sent there ³. In the two above-mentioned letters Xavier orders Mansilhas, who was instructing the Paravas in the North of the coast, to make a collection among the rich people of those places, to succour the poor Christians of the islands who were dying of hunger and thirst; he particularly urges him to carry there many casks full of water; the more, he says, the better. He was at Punney Kayal on August 21, and he wrote from there to Mansilhas that "the Badagas had left the place for Cabecate" ⁴.