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14 Governor news of the affairs of the Mussalmans from time to time, and that he should be prepared to start out with his army to crush the Muhammadans when the proper opportunity was intimated to him. Thus, then, was communication establi- shed between Senji and Samayavaram. Finally in S' 1298, just 10 years after Kampana occupied Conjeevaram, an invitation was sent to him by Tirumanattun-Nambi to march against the Muhammadans in Samayavaram and Srirangam, who had been degenerated by drink and debauchery and had become thoroughly powerless to resist an attack. Goppanarya proceeded against Srirangam, crushed the Mussalmans and re-set up the image of Ranganatha with great eclat. On this occasion, old Vedanta-Desika returned also to Srirangam from his retreat at Satyamangalam and praised Goppanarya in two Sanskrit verses which were got engraved on the eastern wall of the first prakara of the Ranganatha temple. Such is the account found in the Koyilolugu. But we find at Tiruppullani very near Ramnad an inscription of Kampana in the same year, S' 1493, clearly evidencing the fact that it was not only Srirangam that was wrested from the Mussal mans in S' 1293, but also the tract round Madura ruled over by them. + There is no denying the fact that there was a Muhammadan ॐ Srirangam Koyilolugn, old edition, pp. 53, 54. Ep. Ind., Vol. VI, pp. 322-331. + Tufnell's Hints to Coin Collector's, pp. 26-27;. also Ep. Ind. Vol. VI, p. 824. In his South India and her Muhammadan Invaders, Dr. S. Krishnasvami Ayyangar has suggested that the events recorded in the Kamparayacharita should have happend between the years A. D. 1343-56. The coins of the Sultans of Madura disclose the names of as many as eight Sultans, Ahsan Shah, Alauddin Udanji, Qutbu-d-din. Ghiyathu-d. din, Nasiru-d-din, Adil Shah, Fakru-d-din Mubarak-Shah and Alaud-d. din Sikhandar Shah, who had ruled for short periods from A. D. 1335 to 1343 and from A. D. 1356 to 1377, with an inexplicable interregnum of 12 years noted above: This blank is, according to the learned Doctor. explainable only by the possible victories of Kampana, and the restoration of the Ranganatha images, two of them-the original and a duplicate, has also been similarly interpreted.-G. H.