A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): A Contribution to the History of India c21.s3.t17.54

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Four others are mentioned before we come to the great Visvanâtha Nâyakka, who founded an hereditary dynasty, though himself only a deputy of the crown. He ruled Madura from 1559 to 1563. Muttu Krishnappa (1602–1609) seems to have been the first to assume royal titles at Madura. His son, Muttu Virappa (1609–1623), is stated, in the narrative of the Portuguese writer Barradas (above, p. 230), to have paid a tribute in A.D. 1616 to the Vijayanagar king at Chandragiri of 600,000 pagodas; he had several vassal kings under him, and must have already obtained great power. It is possible that, in the time of Nuniz, Madura was not one of the greater provinces, but that it became so later.