sentences:  The royal status of these brides or their relationships to the Nayakas of Mudurai have not been established.The available documents in both Madura and Sri Lanka make it highly doubtful that these brides were of royal descent.In the case of the bride who married Vira Narendra Sinha, it has been established that she was the daughter of a Nayak named Pitti Nayak, who had probably seen better days, but was a very poor man when his daughter married the king of Kandy.