The Aravidu Dynasty of Vijayanagara, Vol. I v1.c13.202

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13. But Vitthala was not satisfied with this apparent submission of the villages of Coromandel; the Portuguese were still the lords of the pearl fisheries and were practically in possession of the whole country. His object was to crush them completely. And since on former occasions they had always escaped by sea, he made an alliance with a Muhammadan pirate named Irapali (...Ali), a subject of the Zamorim of Calicut; so that now, while the Muhammadans attacked the Coast by sea, Visvanatha Nayak with the Telugu troops would attack the Portuguese by land³. The place for launching the assault was Punney Kayal, the capital of the Portuguese settlements of the Fishery Coast, with a garrison of 50 soldiers⁴ under captain Manoel Rodrigues Coutinho.