1847.] 



The race of Vira-nardsmgha-raija. 



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ruled here, it was never customary to pay tribute to any one. Such 

 being the case your father Narasingha having conquered by force 

 took tribute, and went away. But if the matter be properly investi- 

 gated, there is no existing right or claim that I should pay you tri- 

 bute. By consequence we will by no means send you tribute." 

 J^ira-narasingha-raya on receiving this message was very angry ; 

 saying — " Since these chiefs were accustomed to pay tribute to Hari- 

 hara-raya and others, what occasion is there now for discussion or 

 inquiry ?" Whereupon he proceeded to invest the fort, and fought 

 against it for three months. Those chiefs, assembling a great force, 

 beat the besiegers, and did not allow them to approach near to the 

 fort. Then ATarasingha-raya being unable to take that fort, retro- 

 graded his army, and proceeded to invest the town of Sri-rangJm- 

 fatnam.^ Heretofore the great J^arasingha-raya had installed and 

 crowned SivaTci-raya, in that place. The son of that SimM-raya 

 had greatly strengthened that place with fortifications, and he now 

 sent word to the Unmuttur and Talicad chiefs and calling thence 

 many forces he issued outside of the fort, and meeting Narasingha- 

 raya^ in the outside with a great force, he fell upon him there. Then 

 Vira-narasingha-raya, sustaining a slight defeat, retreated with his 

 army, and came back to Vidya-nagara and said to Krishna-ray a ^ 

 that Unmuttur ■SiXidi Sri-ranghapatnam, being well secured, we must 

 assemble a very great army, and having provided full supplies of 

 provisions, we must then conquer those kingdoms. Consulting 

 thus they continued to rule the kingdom. Subsequently Vira-nara- 

 singha-raya, performing many acts of charity, gave presents of gold, 

 equalling his own weight, Kala-purusha-dhanam, gifts of gold in hills, 

 or heaps, gifts of horses, of elephants, of lands, marriage presents, 

 Brahma'pratlshta-dhanam ; making all these, and placing many gifts 

 of food in the public Choultries, he became in giving presents of 

 land equal to Paraszt-rama, in reputation ; and acquired the surname, 

 or titles of Rajadhi-raya-Paramesvara, Pravuda-'prataha-maha' 



rai/a: in Saca year 1425, in RudrdtTcari year, he 

 DiedS. S. 142o, A. , , _ . 



D. 1502—3. acquired entrance into y mcont ha. 



Subsequently the crown descended to his young- 



3. Krishna-raya er brother Krishna-raya. In SacayQ2iX 1426, in 



crown^d,S.^SJ.426, jiacfacsM (58th cycle) year in Chittri month, 



Krislina-raya being installed in the nine jewelled 



* The precise direction of retreat, or retrogradation is not stated ; but the terms here 

 employed, could agree with a Capital south of Seringapatam. 



