The Aravidu Dynasty of Vijayanagara, Vol. I v1.c16.88

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II. It seems quite certain that Sadasiva did not come back to Vijayanagara with the Regent of the Empire; the contemporary sources do not give any information on this point, and from their silence we may deduce that he probably remained in the palace of Tremil, Upper Tirupati, or that perhaps he was transferred to the neighbouring fortress of Chandragiri. Frederick merely says that Tirumala "had in prison the lawful king"². This statement is confirmed by the Chikkadevaraya Vamsavali, which states that Tirumala governed "setting aside the nominal sovereign Sadasiva"³. We know from these testimonies that Sadasiva's imprisonment did not end at the death of Rama Raya. Tirumala, who had probably formerly rebelled against his brother on hearing of his sovereign's imprisonment, now followed the same policy himself. Chandragiri was a splendid prison for a king; and since the only place where we find Sadasiva hereafter is Srirangam, where he made the Krishnapuram grant, we may reasonably suppose that he never went back to the North of his Empire. Venkatadri who was probably at Chandragiri, might have been his jailor; or perhaps this office was filled by the third son of Tirumala, Venkata, the future Venkata II, who seems to have governed a portion of the Empire during the reign of Sadasiva⁴, and during the reigns of his father and of his brother Ranga I, had been their viceroy at Chandragiri, and was at this time, according to an inscription of Markapur, of 1467, already one of the ministers of the Empire¹. In the year 1567 he made a grant to the Puranist Parankusan Lakshmanaiya². Another of his gifts is recorded in an inscription of 1568³.