Historical Sketch of the Kingdom of Pandya. [July 



The second prince of Madura, Peria Krishnapa Nayak, the son of 

 Viswanath, succeeded his father. He extended the authority of the 

 new family towards the south, reducing to subjection the Poligar of 

 Permagudi : he enlarged and beautified Tinnivelly, and built a village 

 to the south of Palamcola, called after his own name Kistnapuram. 

 And here, as well as near Tinnivelly, he built a temple of Siva, and 

 a range of dwellings for the residence of Brahmans, attaching to both 

 liberal endowments. 



The third prince of this race was the son of the preceding, Peria, 

 Virapa Nayak, who emulated his father in extending the authority of 

 Madura, and in founding temples and endowing religious establish- 

 ments. 



The succession of the Nayaks is here differently stated, Mutiah's 

 History passing to a second Krishnapa Nayak, calling him the son of 

 the last prince, whilst the other account states that Peria Virapa Na- 

 yak left three sons, Viswapa, Kumara Krishnapa, and Kasturi Ranga- 

 pa, all of whom succeeded in regular order to the government. The 

 last was succeeded by Krishnapa, who was the son of the second bro- 

 ther, Kumara Krishnapa, and until whose reign no particular transac- 

 tions have" been thought worthy of being recorded. 



The most remarkable incident of this reign was the formal acknow- 

 ledgment of the Poligar of Ramnad, as the sovereign of the eastern 

 coast. This event must have taken place at the end of the sixteenth 

 century ; and the accounts of Marawa assert the independency of 

 the founder of the sovereignty about two centuries sooner. They 

 agree, however, with the histories of Madura, in admitting, that about 

 this period, Wodeya Deva was recognised by the king of Madura as 

 the legitimate ruler of Ramnad, and warden of Rameswar; and there 

 can be little doubt, therefore, that the power of the- Marawa rulers 

 first assumed a consistent form at the period here described. They 

 were not, how T ever, entirely independent, as, although authorised to ex- 

 tend their authority over their refractory and predatory neighbours, 

 they were required to pay tribute to the Madura government; and 

 they were especially enjoined to give protection to the pilgrims to 

 Rameswar against the Colars and Marawars, who had been accus- 

 tomed to plunder and harass these devotees upon their passage, so as 

 almost to have deterred the people of other parts of India from under- 

 taking so perilous a journey. 



by Nagana Naid (or Naik) about 1532, in the reign of Achyuta Deva, with the aid of 

 a colony of Telingas, which seems to have been planted in the country some time be- 

 fore by the government of Vijayanagar. The descendants of those are the Poligars of 

 the present day, who are undoubtedly of Telinga, not Tamil, origin (vol. i. p. 54, note). 

 Their introduction is differently stated in the authorities followed in the text. 



