[362] — Perhaps Ite Obalesvara.
[363] — Chinna Obala Raya.
[364] — Written in 1616.
[365] — This was Muttu Virappa, 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 Pandiyans, one of whom is mentioned as late as 1623 ("Sketch of the Dynasties of Southern India," 85).
[366] — Trichinopoly.
[367] — Close to Madras, often called "Melliapor" by the Portuguese, its native name being Mailapur. Linschoten, writing at the end of the sixteenth century, a few years earlier than the date of the events described, says, "This towne … is now the chiefe cittie of Narsinga and of the coast of Choromandel."
[368] — See above, p. 214.
[369] — "Sketch of the Dynasties of Southern India," p. 112.
[370] — "He" here is Domingo Paes.
[371] — The "kingdom of Narsinga" is the name often given by the Portuguese and others to Vijayanagar.