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KANDUKURU PLATES OF VENKATAPATIDEVAI: SAKA 1535.
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of Verkatapati. The Telugu work Rāmarājīyamu states that Venkata chased the Golkonda army back and defeating it on the banks of the Penner settled, with his vanquished and suppliant enemy, the river Krishna as the boundary line between their territories. His faithful feudatories who helped him on these and other occasions were the Matla chief Anants who calls himself tho right hand of the Karnita emperor,' and the Tanjore chief, Achyutapps as well as his son Raghur DĀtha who 'brought all the Karnāta territory once more under Venkatadevaraya.' But he had his own internal enemies to contend against; for we hear of a revolt of the Nandyal chief Krish Dama having been quelled by Venkata early in his reign and of Krishnappa Nayaks of Gingee having been imprisoned by the emperor and subsequently set free.Virappa Nayaks of Madura also seems to have aimed at independence. The Chikkadevarāya-uamdāvali informs us that shortly after his accession, Venkata sent his nephew Tirumala against Madura, but the latter received bribes from the chief and retired with his army to Srirangapattana. In spite of this, Venkatapati should have asserted his authority over Virappa as evidenced by later granta. We get some interesting glimpses into the history of this period from certain Jesuit letters! noticed by the Reverend Father Heras of Bombay. About A.D. 1607 Venkata had removed his seat of government to Vēlār though Chandragiri was still the royal city.' Towards the close of his reiga Venkata had to yield to the rising chief Rāja-Udaiyar of Mysore on whom he had to confer the viceroyalty of Srirangapattana, as his attentions were diverted again by the troublesome Golkonda chiefs who threatened his dominions in the north. It was on this occasion that Raghunatha-Nayaka of Tanjore came to his rescue and saved the kingdom from the Muhammadan invasion. It is probable that Muttu-Virappa Nayaka of Madura was also trying to shake off the Vijayanagara sovereignty, and therefore espoused the cause of Jaggaraya in the war of succession after Venkata's death.
The object of the document is to record the grant of some garden lands and fields at Chandragiri and Gollapallo for the worship of the god and the goddess at Tirupati during certain festivals specified in it. The grant was made by Venkatapatidēva at the request of Mahāmandalesvara Gobari Śēshādrirăja, the son of Venkataraja and the grandson of Pāpa-Timmarāja of the Solar race and the Kabyapa-gotra. Very little is known of these Göbüri chiefs so far except the names of some individual members of the family. They first figure in the reign of Krishnarāya at the time of his expedition against Kalinga, 40 but came into prominence during the rule of Sadāsiva and his successors and had frequent matrimonial alliances with the latter. We meet with a certain
1 Mad. Ep. Rep. for 1910, Part II, paragraph 56. Ibid. for 1916, Part II, paragraph 75. • Sources of Vij. Hist., p. 285.
• Ibid., p. 243. terardi ( 2) martie: रकतानी रखनाथभूपः। पाराषितं चपनायर्कतं.
बबीचयकटदेवराया। (Raghund thabhyudayam of Ramabhadrimba, Canto VII, verse 73).
. Ep. Ind., Vol. XII, pp. 159 f. Copper-plates Nos. 9 of 1906-06 and 9 of 1911-12 of the Madras Epigra phical collection.
Mythic Society Journal, Vol. XIV, pp. 130-140 and 312-317.
. This is probably in consequence of the revolt of Lingama-Nayaka whom, according to Bahuladvacharitram, Chonns defeated on behalf of Vonkata. Sewell's Forgotten Empire, p. 230.
10 Sources of Vij. Hist. p. 131. 11 According to the Ramarajiyamu, Kondamma, one of the five queens of Venkate I, was a daughter of Obs. rijs, while two more daughters of his, Narasingamma and Bangaramma, were respeótively married to Rims and Verksta II, the grandsons of Asiya-Ramarija. Other members of the family who had marriage counutions with the Arayldu chiefs were Gobari Vengals, the father of certain Papamms married to Srirange HII, the adopted son of Gopala who was himself the son-in-law of (Gobůri) Giriyapps, and Yatiraju whose daughter Kardamma was married to Bima IV.
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