The Aravidu Dynasty of Vijayanagara, Vol. I v1.c23.46

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In the same Vellangudi plates, and again in the Padmaneri grant of Venkata II, he is called 'the conqueror or taker of the army of Panchar Tiruvadi' 2. Fr. Pimenta, the Jesuit Visitor who, in the year 1596, passed through Travancore, relates that the king of Travancore had "certified to us that the king of Madura was coming against him with seventy thousand armed men and many elephants " 3. Three years later, in 1599, when the Archbishop of Goa, Frey Aleixo de Menczes, was in Malabar, he could not meet the king of Travancore, who "was at the frontier of his kingdom, defending it against the attacks of the Nayque of Madura (the Madura Nayak)" 4. The same account states a little later that this war was made towards the South of the Travancore kingdom 5. We do not know the result of this war, which was probably due to the refusal of the Travancore king to pay the tribute; but we deduce that the Madura Nayak was victorious, from the fact that Fr. Barradas, writing from Cochin on December 12th, 1616, says that the king of Travancore is under the Nayak of Madura 6.