Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v1.c11.s2.t4.97

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Boḷeya Mummeya Nāyaka was a Bēḍar chieftain, and as such might have been naturally expected to create commotion in the Āraga-rājya. But the Vijayanagara monarchs had to deal with persons who committed graver offences of the type of those made by Kāchapa Nāyaka of Ādavāni, a subordinate of Sāḷuva Narasiṅga, who is supposed to have made common cause in Śaka 1420 (A.D. 1498-9),² with the Muhammadans; or of those perpetrated by the powerful vassals of Mysore and of the south, whom Kṛṣṇa Dēva Rāya the Great brought to reason soon after. The two chiefs Nāgama Nāyaka and Vira Narasimha Sellappa were apprehended and reduced to subjection,³ although it must be admitted that with the latter the forces of Vijayanagara were not completely successful. The rebel leader managed to escape into the state of Travancore. Kṛṣṇa Dēva Rāya, however, as related elsewhere, crushed Nañja Rāja Oḍeyar, the chief of Ummattūr, by storming the fortress of Sīvanasamudra. According to Dr. Lüders "the taking of Sīvanasamudra, at any rate, appears to have been the first military success in Kṛṣṇarāya's career".⁴