The Aravidu Dynasty of Vijayanagara, Vol. I v1.c30.62

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This suspicious conduct of Venkata towards this boy naturally roused, no doubt, many suspicions among the nobles and the royal relatives. This explains Fr. Coutinho’s information that Venkata had ‘many nephews who claimed the right of succession¹. And King Philip III of Spain was informed before 1610 that there were three candidates to the crown of Venkata². Hence even the supposed mother of the boy, Queen Venkatamba, "realized that her son would not be acknowledged as a king (by the nobles)", to quote Fr. Queyroz, "and persuaded him (Venkata) to resign the kingdom in favour of his nephew Chica Raj, son of Rama Raju" ³.