A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): A Contribution to the History of India c20.35

c20.35

² This was Muttu Vîrappa, Nayakka (or Naik) of Madura from 1609 to 1623. Mr. Nelson ("The Madura Country") mentions that in his reign there was a war with Tanjore. Nuniz, writing in 1535, does not mention Madura as amongst the great divisions of the Vijayanagar kingdom; and this coincides with the history as derived from other sources. But by 1614 the Naik of Madura had become very powerful, though the people still occasionally recognised their old sovereigns, the Pândiyans, one of whom is mentioned as late as 1623 ("Sketch of the Dynasties of Southern India," 85).