The Aravidu Dynasty of Vijayanagara, Vol. I v1.c32.58
The Aravidu Dynasty of Vijayanagara, Vol. I v1.c32.58
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the foundation of the Nayakship of Madura. The Pandyas of those days had remained faithful Saivas, as the Tenkasi inscriptions of Arikesari Parakrama Pandya prove ¹. The Telugu chiefs sent from Vijayanagara to the South were almost always Vaishnavas. The final settlement of Vishvanatha and his successors as rulers of the Pandya kingdom naturally marked the commencement of a flourishing period of Vaishnavism in the southern dominions.