 an even more impressive chiefly house arose in Vijayanagara times and came to enjoy an extensive sovereignty . These were the Keladi chiefs who later founded the Nayaka kingdom of Ikkeri . At its greatest , the Ikkeri rajas controlled a territory nearly as large as the Vijayanagara heartland , some 20 @,@ 000 square miles , extending about 180 miles south from Goa along the trade @-@ rich Kanara coast . 
