The Aravidu Dynasty of Vijayanagara, Vol. I v1.c23.132

v1.c23.132

13. But suddenly these mutual relations appear to have been broken. No more inscriptions are found showing the names of the Emperor and his Nayak together; the latter does not acknowledge his overlord any more. Early in 1610 a gift of land of his to the temple at Ambasamudram, Tinnevelly 5, and an exemption from taxes of the Mudaliyar servants of the Sokkanatasvami temple at Madura¹ are both recorded, without mentioning Venkata. The same policy is followed in the inscriptions of the following years. In 1612 a gift was made in Tinnevelly for the merit of Muttu Virappa Nayakkar²; in 1613 an inscription in honour of the same Muttu Virappa was carved in the greatest gopura of the Perumal temple at Madura³; in neither of these does the name of the Emperor of Vijayanagara appear.