Journal of the Andhra Historical Research Society January 1939

Sukra says The king is made out of the permanent elements of Indra V yu Yama the Sun Fire Varuna the moon and Kubera and is the lord of both the immovable and the movable worlds. [...] Therein the learned piofessor refers to the services rendered to the kingdoms of South India by Shaji father of Sivaji at the bidding of his master and overlord the Su'tali of Bijapur and expresses the opinion that }battle of Topur was the cause of the internal disputes and civil wars among the kingdoms of South India. [...] Srinivasachariar's views on the battle of Topur may be summarised thus: (1) That Ranga was the legitimate or rightful heir to the throne of the Vijayanagra Empire and that the battle of Topur was fought for the purpose of placing him on the throne; (2) that the rightist party was defeated in the battle and (3) that the Nayakas of Jinjee and Madura fell on the battlefield. [...] The third conclusion of the Professor that the Nayaks of Jinjee and Madura who fought on the side of the traitor Jaggaraya fell on the battlefied in a way contradicts the Professor's assertion that the legitimate party was either destroyed or defeated. [...] Had he taken into consideration the Hindu practice of naming the children after their grand-parents and the existence of family pras'astis in the royal archives on which each prince modelled his charters Kielhorn would not have regarded the identity of the names of parents and grand-parents and the similarity of the phraseology as serious objections against the genuineness of the 1 I. A. VIII p