Mayimama Marakkar was an Indian ambassador of the

Zamorin The Samoothiri (Anglicised as Zamorin; Malayalam: , Arabic: ''Sāmuri'', Portuguese: ''Samorim'', Dutch: ''Samorijn'', Chinese: ''Shamitihsi''Ma Huan's Ying-yai Sheng-lan: 'The Overall Survey of the Ocean's Shores' 433 Translated and Edited by ...

ruler of

Calicut Kozhikode (), also known in English as Calicut, is a city along the Malabar Coast in the state of Kerala in India. It has a corporation limit population of 609,224 and a metropolitan population of more than 2 million, making it the second la ...

. In 1504, he went on an embassy to the

Mamluk Mamluk ( ar, مملوك, mamlūk (singular), , ''mamālīk'' (plural), translated as "one who is owned", meaning " slave", also transliterated as ''Mameluke'', ''mamluq'', ''mamluke'', ''mameluk'', ''mameluke'', ''mamaluke'', or ''marmeluke'') ...

ruler in order to obtain an intervention against the Portuguese who were preying on

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

.''Malabar manual'' William Logan p.316''ff''
/ref>" Mayimama Marakkar, whom the Zamorin had sent as his ambassador to Egypt in 1504" ''The zamorins of Calicut: from the earliest times down to A.D. 1806'' by K. V. Krishna Ayya

/ref> He returned to India in 1508 with a Mamluk fleet of 12 ships, which, in combination with the local forces of

Gujarat Gujarat (, ) is a state along the western coast of India. Its coastline of about is the longest in the country, most of which lies on the Kathiawar peninsula. Gujarat is the fifth-largest Indian state by area, covering some ; and the ninth ...

defeated a Portuguese fleet in the Battle of Chaul (1508). Marakkar had initially been a Muslim merchant who had had a dispute with the Raja of

Cannanore Kannur (), formerly known in English as Cannanore, is a city and a municipal corporation in the state of Kerala, India. It is the administrative headquarters of the Kannur district and situated north of the major port city and commercial hu ...

, and following a complaint of the Raja had been gravely mishandled by the Portuguese Captain Vicente Sodré. He had held a desire for revenge since then.''Rise of Portuguese Power in India, 1497-1550'' R.S. Whiteway p. 93
/ref> He was killed in the 1508 naval encounter at Chaul.

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