Journal of the Andhra Historical Research Society July 1934

In our forthcoming article on the geneology and chronology of the early Kadambas of Banavisi we have made it sufficiently clear that the Pallava king spoken of as CharatadaiAla in the Halsi plates139 of the Kadamba king RaVivarma as well as the Pallava king spoken of as 1/4.;:intivarma in the Birur plates140 and again as Siintivaravarma in the Hebbata plates141 of the Kadamba. [...] of India lord of the three seas and of the land.' According to Vicent Smith P. 305 in his time the Vijayanagar Empire comprised substantially the same area as the modern Presidency of Madras with the addition of Mysore and the other native states of the peninsula.' The Empire began to wane in its glory under the next so vereignty of Achuta Raya the brother of Krishna Deva Raya. [...] of Tirumalamnia the Queen of Achuta deva Raya to the divinely gifted lad Chavappa the protege of the Court AsAtrologer Govinda Deekshita and with the gift or the Principality of Tanjore as the marriage dowry to Chavappa and with the establishment of the Nayak Kingdom in Tanjore by Chavappa with Govinda Deekshita as his minister it may be said that the rule of Dtiarma in The Land of Dharma [...] These figurative and stretched poetic comparisons in which the hero is the buffalo display the satirical outlook of the poet and at the same time serve to show the erudition of the learned poet who reminds one of the great poet of England Alexander Pope the poet who gave a permanent place to all the greater and the lesser poets of his age in his epic poem the Dunciad. [...] It appears that in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries after the fall of the Vijayanagar Empire and the fall of the Nayak kingdom and the early Maharashtra rulers at Tanjore the condition of the learned brahmins became really unenviable as is evident from the language of Kutti Kavi in the Mahisha Sataka.