Rajah Sulayman commissioned Panday Pira to cast the cannon that were mounted on the palisades surrounding his kingdom.
Legazpi eventually established a permanent Castilian settlement in Manila on May 19, 1571, and on June 3 of the same year, Tarik Sulayman waged the Battle of Bangkusay Channel to recapture his kingdom from the Spaniards.
Panday Pira then fled to Pampanga where he attempted to begin a new life in sitio Capalangan in the town of Apalit, working as a blacksmith forging farm implements.
[3] To the Spaniards, Panday Pira was known as Pandapira,[1] and they exempted him from paying tribute and forced labor.
His death was a great loss to the Spaniards who had to petition the King of Spain for a blacksmith to take his place.