The Aravidu Dynasty of Vijayanagara, Vol. I v1.c13.86

v1.c13.86

After halting with his army at Madura, Vitthala set out for Travancore in the beginning of July accompanied by all these chiefs. Nagam Aiya says that St. Francis Xavier in one of his letters states that the army of Vitthala entered the territory of Travancore through the Aramboly (Aruvaymoli) pass⁷. I could not find this letter in the critical edition of that missionary’s letters. This, however, seems to be the actual tradition in Travancore, that through that pass the army of Vitthala invaded the country. Fr. Sousa only says that they came down through the mountains in the neighbourhood of Cape Comorin, that divide Travancore from the Coromandel Coast⁸.