Part 8 - Tirumalayadeva Maharaja (1590-1550)

Two records of Tirumalaya, dated A.D. 1543 are at Nutulapadu (Bapatla taluq). They mention him as mahamandlesvara Timmalaiyadeva maharaja and records his grants of lands to the local temples. Probably these grants were made towards the close of his reign. “The Chief is said to have been enjoying the nayankara of the village which was granted previously by Timmarasayayu”. Tirumala’s contempories were Prataparudra and his successors at Cuttack, and Krishnaraya and his successors at Vijayanagar. Tirumala held his fief as a feudatory of Krishnadevaraya Probably Tirumala, was the last of the line, as no sons or successors of him are heard of.