[263] -- I have broadly declared this relationship, but, as a matter of fact, almost every inscription and literary work in the country differs as to the genealogy of the sovereigns who reigned from this time forward. Nuniz, however, as a contemporary writer residing at the capital, is an excellent authority. [264] -- EPIG. IND., iv. 3, note 4 (Professor Kielhorn). [265] -- Scott's edition, i. 252. [266] -- These names are discussed below. [267] -- This is apparently an error. The period was only ten years. [268] -- 16th Safar, A.H. 941 (Firishtah). [269] -- Firishtah, Briggs, iii. 374 -- 375. [270] -- "Lists of Antiquities, Madras," vol. i. p. 181 (No. 86), and p. 182 (No. 115). [271] -- Scott's translation, i. p. 262. [272] -- Below, p. 367. [273] -- IDEM, p. 354. [274] -- Scott, i. pp. 262 ff.; Briggs, iii. p. 80. [275] -- Briggs has it "a daughter of Shew Ray." Rama married a daughter of Krishna Deva, who was son of the first Narasimha. [276] -- Inscriptions do not give us the name of any prince of the female line at this period. Briggs calls the uncle "Bhoj" Tirumala. Couto (Dec. VI. l. v. cap. 5) renders the name as "Uche Timma," and states that UCHE means "mad." [277] -- Here we probably find an allusion to the reign of Achyuta. Rama was the elder of three brothers afterwards to become very famous. He and his brother Tirumala both married daughters of Krishna Deva Raya. Achyuta being, in Nuniz's belief, brother of the latter monarch, that chronicler calls these two brothers "brothers-in-law" of King Achyuta. (Below, p. 367.) Nuniz says that King Achyuta "destroyed the principal people in the kingdom and killed their sons" (p. 369). [278] -- Achyuta had then been for about six years on the throne. [279] -- If the Sultan's march towards Vijayanagar began in 1535 -- 36, we shall perhaps not be far wrong in assigning Nuniz's chronicle to the year 1536 -- 37, seeing that the author alludes to the dissatisfaction and disgust felt by the nobles and others for their rulers, which presupposes a certain interval to have passed since the departure of the Mussalman army. [280] -- Scott's edit., i. 265. [281] -- Scott spells the name "Negtaderee," but I have substituted the rendering given by Briggs, "Venkatadry," as less confusing.