The Aravidu Dynasty of Vijayanagara, Vol. I v1.c19.67

v1.c19.67

8. During the time of Ranga, the chief of Vellore was still Chinna Bomma Nayaka, of whom we have previously spoken ⁶. We find him mentioned several times by the Emperor himself: one of the latter’s inscriptions records the gift of the village of Perumai, North Arcot, by Krishnappa Nayaka, his feudatory, at the request of Chinna Bomma Nayaka to the Jvarakandesvara shrine at Vellore ⁷. Two other inscriptions mention the donation of the villages of Sattuvachcheri and Sampanginallur under the same terms ¹. Chinna Bomma Nayaka is again mentioned in a Tamil inscription of Ranga I of 1578 at Devikapuram, North Arcot ². In 1582 he was still living, since an inscription of his at Adaipalam records that Appaiya Dikshita constructed the temple of Kalakanthesvara ³.