but to be fair on the writer he never mentioned veerapandiya kattabomman. he just said kattabommanaik. all kings- (some 40 of them they claim) in the lineage of gettibommu must have been called with this pattappeyar. and word for word the article had drawn from the greatest book on yusuf khan -THE REBEL COMMANDANT. so some lateral thinking leads us to new possiblilities I had mentioned. venketesh