The Aravidu Dynasty of Vijayanagara, Vol. I v1.c23.116

v1.c23.116

An inscription of his of the following year 1608 at Rameswaram gives the list of his titles, which will appear again in some grants of his successors. Tirumalai Udaiyan Setupati is there styled “the lord of the city of Tevai; the responsible agent for the protection of the Setu embankment; the responsible agent for the charities of Ramanathaswami, who is actively engaged in worshipping Siva; the chief of all other kings; the destroyer of the army of the Ariyaraya, who cuts into a thousand pieces and three thousand pieces those failing in the correctness of their language; who conquers all the country that he sees and never gives back a country once conquered; the punisher of Muvaraya, the lord of the valorous and the fertile country, the protector of the Brahmans studying the Vedas; who has put down the pride and prosperity of the valorous and inimical Yavana kings” ⁴.