The Aravidu Dynasty of Vijayanagara, Vol. I v1.c23.47

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The relations between the Pandyas and the ruling family of Madura continued most friendly. The Pandya prince Abhirama Ativirarama, had a chief named Ayyakarappa, son of Peddappa and grandson of Nagama Nayaka, who bore the title of Kanchipuradhisa, being probably a nephew of Visvanatha Nayaka. At his request the aforesaid Pandya granted two villages, Muvaraṅkondram and Sattaleri, naming them Peddappanayaksamudram, to sixty-nine Brahmans, on October 2nd, 1593 ¹. Some years later the same Pandya, at the request of Ramakrishnappa Nayaka who was ‘sitting on the lion throne of Vallabha Narendra,’ granted the village of Nadikkudi, under the name of Ativiraramapura, to a number of Brahmans ². Ativirarama acknowledged the sovereignty of Venkata II, as an inscription of the year 1595, recording a grant of a piece of land to three private persons, proves ³.