The Aravidu Dynasty of Vijayanagara, Vol. I v1.c26.56

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Yielding to the advice of his courtiers and secretly admonished by Venkata, Tirumala quietly retired to Talakkad 4. According to the *Annals of the Mysore Royal Family*, the Viceroy retired from Seringapatam with his two wives Alamelamma and Rangamma 5. The *Palace History* gives one name only, viz. Alamelumanga ¹, and seems to suppose that before reaching her husband, who went ahead, she met her end; Raja Wodeyar being most probably responsible for her death ². Frs. S. de Sa and B. Coutinho, while going to Goa with Venkata’s embassy, met the father-in-law of Tirumala, viz. the father of one of these two ladies ³. But he seems to have had no sons, since the Kuniyur plates of Venkata III, speaking of the two nephews of his namesake Venkata II, say: ‘Of these two, Srirangaraya begot sons’ ⁴. Both Wilks and Rice state that Tirumala died soon afterwards ⁵. But there is a grant from Gundlupet Taluk which seems to indicate that he was still living in 1614, and probably with the authority of Viceroy, though very much reduced; he is called in it “the Mahamandalesvara Rama Raja Tirumala Rajayya”, and is said to have made to Vengadeyya-Bhatta, ‘establisher of the path of the Vedas’, a grant of the village of Yereyur, rent free ⁶.