Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v1.c7.s2.14

v1.c7.s2.14

“The Chief of the Mussulmans who were left behind at Srirangam stayed for some time in the temple of Raṅganātha, but finding his health suffering by his stay in the island of Srirangam, he removed his quarters to Samayavaram (Kaṇṇanūr), situated at a distance of six miles north of Srirangam, fortified that place with the stones obtained by demolishing one of the outer enclosures of Srirangam, and was living there. At this time a Kāṇiyāḷa Brāhmaṇa, named Siṅgappirān, of an adjoining village, through the influence of a Hindu dancing-girl of Srirangam, who had entered into intimacy with Mussulman chief solely with the object of saving the temple from destruction, secured