The Aravidu Dynasty of Vijayanagara, Vol. I v1.c23.57

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6. In the beginning of his reign Krishnappa II appears as faithful feudatory of Venkata II. In 1597 Venkatapati, at the request of Krishnappa Nayaka, who is styled ‘King Krishna, the Pandya King’, issued a grant of the two villages Marudangudi and Karupuram in the Madura district to several Vaishnava Brahmans ¹. In 1598 Krishnappa obtained from Venkata, who is acknowledged the paramount sovereign and original donor, the village of Padmaneri, surnamed Tirumalambapuram, for a number of Brahmans, most of whom were well versed in the Vedas ². In this grant of Venkata, Kumara Krishnappa is called 'Lord of the southern Ocean' ³. In the same year the Emperor, again at the request of Krishnappa, granted as an agrahara to a large number of Brahmans and Brahman ladies, the village of Vellangudi with five others around it ⁴. But in the year 1599 Krishnappa II again withheld the payment of tribute; and Venkata himself had to march against him. "Hee (Venkata)", says Fr Pimenta, "was now embroiled in warre with the Naichus of Madure" ⁵.