Adam's bridge in the south. Second conflict with Vijayanagar According to the Rajavrolu plates of Prataparudra Deva and Madala Panji records, the Gajapati was camping on the river Ponnaiyar river banks and was successful in occupying parts of Vijayanagar for a brief time from Viranarasimha Raya after driving out the inmates of the fortified city there. However, the king had to suddenly return to Odisha as a severe famine ensued in his own kingdom in the year 1507-1508 A.D. Second War with Hussain Shahi Dynasty of Bengal (1509 A.D) The Sultan of Bengal Alauddin Hussain Shah sent his commander Ismail Ghazi with an invasion force to attack Odisha when the Gajapati was and most of his army was on the expedition of southern India. The Upada grant and Velicherla plates of Prataparudra Deva state the invasive intentions of the Bengal sultan displayed continuously by trying to violate the frontier positions. Ismail Ghazi's Invasion in Absence of the King Ismail Ghazi marched straight on to the Gajapati capital of Cuttack from the Bengal frontier. A formidable defense was put up by the defending in charge Ananta Samantaray of the Barabati fort in Cuttack but due to the overwhelming number of the raiding forces, he had to retreat and re position in the Sarangagarh fort on the southern side of the Kathajodi river. Ismail marched on to the holy city of Puri where the servitors and priests of Puri temple secretly transported the Jagannath idols via a boat to a hidden island hill amidst the Chilika lake called Chadeiguha before his arrival. An Odia governor called Bhoi Bidyadhar organized the defense and continued clashing with the raiders until the Gajapati army returned. After arriving back in his kingdom with a large expeditionary force amidst these chaotic conditions, Prataparudra Deva pursued the fleeing forces into the frontier of Bengal laying seize to the Mandarana fort of Qutb Shahi forces at today's Jahanabad Sub-Division in Hoogly. First Battle of Mandarana Fort Mandrana fort of Bengal was a militarily strategic fort of the Sultans of Bengal where Alauddin Hussain Shah was himself located at the time when Prataparudra Deva laid a seize. After a severe fighting, the fort fell into the hands of the Odia army and the Sultan of Bengal along with some of his followers fled from the location leaving their army in the middle of the battle who were also later put