On August 1639 , Vijayanagar Emperor travelled to Chandragiri palace to meet the Vijayanagara King Peda in Chennai .
`` On 20 August 1639 Francis Day of the East India Company along with the Nayak of Kalahasti Damarla Chennappa Nayakudu , the Military administrator under Vijayanagar Emperor travelled to Chandragiri palace to meet the Vijayanagara King Peda Venkata Raya and to obtained grant for a small strip of land in the Coromandel Coast from in Chandragiri as a place to build a factory and warehouse for their trading activities  -- Vol-1_djvu.txt  region was then primarily a fishing village known as `` '' Madraspatnam '' '' . ''