The Aravidu Dynasty of Vijayanagara, Vol. I v1.c25.80

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9. One of the Jesuit Letters of 1606 states that from among the three Nayaks of Madura, Tanjore and Jinji, he of Jinji was the most powerful, and accordingly he had divided his dominions among other smaller Nayaks. One of these smaller Nayaks, subjects to Krishnappa Nayaka, was, according to the same letter, Lingama Nayaka of Vellore ¹. Fr. Pimenta mentions two other feudatories of Krishnappa, ‘the Princes of Trividin (Tiruvadi) and Salavaccha (?)’ ². The above mentioned Solaga was also one of the chiefs of the highest rank ³. He appears both in the *Sahityaratnakara* of Yagnanarayana Dikshita and in the *Raghunathabhyudayam* of Ramabhadramba ⁴. During Fr. Pimenta’s stay at Jinji, Solaga’s son, a boy of fourteen, ‘accompanied by many nobles and old men’, reached the capital to ask Krishnappa to name him after himself; with the further request of a grant of a golden chair and several pieces of land. He became a close friend of the Jesuits; so close that when the Nayak allowed the Fathers to depart he commended them to the care of Solaga’s son, who accompanied them safely to the castle of his father ⁵.