The Aravidu Dynasty of Vijayanagara, Vol. I v1.c25.76

v1.c25.76

Krishnappa Nayaka earnestly asked Fr. Pimenta to build a church in this new city, and to erect a residence for a priest, he himself giving a good endowment: "two hundred pieces of gold being assigned to the Priest thereof," says Pimenta, "his Letters Patents written in the Tamulan and Badagan Languages" ⁶. This grant was made in the presence of all the grandees and nobles of the court ⁷. Accordingly Fr. Pimenta called Fr. Alexander Levi, 'a man of renowned holiness and of great knowledge of the vernacular', from Travancore, and left him at Krishnapatam to superintend the construction of the new church ⁸.