The Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal March 1838

He states that R ASING A raver demanded of him an account of the primitive state of the Vitlytiranya (site of Ity.2►at►nga►ain) and of the worship of Vireipacshi (a form of Siva) and of the proceedings of Vidynranahi (a sage) bfore the town was built. [...] Hence there is need only to observe in brief that it commences with the accession of the son of TIRUNIALA NAYAKER to the throne at Madura and brings the account downwards with a somewhat minute specification of wars negociations and changes of power to the period of the last feeble remains of the race who received a village for their maintenance. [...] After the ceremony of investing with the sacred thread and while learning in the school the boy was the object of much cotempt from the other boys being treated as the son of a widow. [...] The story of a Jonaca (Muhammadan) who came to this country the cause of which is narrated; the foreigner extended the dominion of the Calicut raja; magnificent things are stated as to the conquests of the Calicut raja originating in his devotedness to Sri Bhagarati and her gifts to him. [...] D. 1659-10): on the despatch of the memorial the writer of it set out at the head of 25 000 men to attack the ruler of Visiapur ; halting at the village named Visaa-gadda ; whence a few troops of the Padshah retreated.