The Aravidu Dynasty of Vijayanagara, Vol. I v1.c16.83

v1.c16.83

And such was the luck of Tirumala that, shortly after, he himself was invited to interfere again, like his brother Rama Raya, in the destiny of their opponents. For Murtaza Nizam Shah, in order to be revenged on Ali Adil Shah, "sent an envoy to Golkonda,” says the anonymous chronicler, “inviting Ibrahim Qutb Shah to form an alliance against the king of Bijapur: while at the same time an envoy had been previously despatched for the same purpose to Ahmadnagar by the king of Golkonda, proposing that they should march to the river Krishna, when Yeltumraj (Tirumala), the brother of the late Ramraj, might be invited to join with his forces, when they could all proceed to the reduction of Bijapur. After reaching the Krishna, the kings of Golkonda and Ahmadnagar wrote to Yeltumraj, requesting him to become a member of the confederacy”.