Chapter BAYADÈRE to BEADALA of B by The Hobson Jobson Dictionary

too hastily identified Beadala with a place on the coast of Malabar, a fact which has perhaps been the cause of this article (see Lusiads, Commentary, p. 477).

1552.—“Martin Affonso, with this light fleet, on which he had not more than 400 soldiers, went round Cape Comorin, being aware that the enemy were at Beadalä…”—Barros, Dec. IV., liv. viii. cap. 13.

1562.—“The Governor, departing from Cochym, coasted as far as Cape Comoryn, doubled that Cape, and ran for Beadalä, which is a place adjoining the Shoals of Chilao [Chilaw]…”—Correa, iv. 324.

c. 1570.—“And about this time Alee Ibrahim Murkar, and his brother-in-law Kunjee-Alee-Murkar, sailed out with 22 grabs in the direction of Kaeel, and arriving off Bentalah, they landed, leaving their grabs at anchor.…But destruction overtook them at the arrival of the Franks, who came upon them in their galliots, attacking and capturing all their grabs.…Now this capture by the Franks took place in the latter part of the month of Shaban, in the year 944 [end of January, 1538].”—Tohfut-ul-Mujahideen, tr. by Rowlandson, 141.

1572.—

“E despois junto ao Cabo Comorim
Huma façanha faz esclarecida,
A frota principal do Samorim,
Que destruir o mundo não duvida,
Vencerá co o furor do ferro e fogo;
Em si verá Beadála o martio jogo.”

Camöes, x. 65.

By Burton (but whose misconception of the locality has here affected his translation):

“then well nigh reached the Cape ’clept Comorin,
another wreath of Fame by him is won;
the strongest squadron of the Samorim
who doubted not to see the world undone,
he shall destroy with rage of fire and steel:
Be’adálá’s self his martial yoke shall feel.”

1814.—“Vaidálai, a pretty populous village on the coast, situated 13 miles east of Mutupetta, inhabited chiefly by Musulmans and Shánáras, the former carrying on a wood trade.”—Account of the Prov. of Ramnad, from Mackenzie Collections in J. R. As. Soc. iii. 170.