A History of the Mahrattas v1.c9.44

v1.c9.44

⁴ I follow the usual designation of that battle; but it was probably fought at some village opposite to Telikotta, across the Kistna, and consequently sixteen miles south of the modern Telikotta. [The battle of Tālikotā (Telikotta) was fought in an area between the Ingaligi ford and Mudgal, marked by a village named Bhayapur or Bhogapur, about thirty miles south of the modern Tālikotā. (O.H.I., 306, and I.G. Bom., 1909, ii. 52.) Rāma Rājā of Vijayanagar was beheaded on the field by Husain Nizām Shāh. A large stone head, now preserved in the Bijāpur museum, is believed to be the model of Rāma Rājā’s head, which stood for some years on the wall of the citadel, and was subsequently removed by the Rājā of Sātāra and thrown into the ditch below the walls. It was discovered at the bottom of the Tāj Baudi (reservoir). J.B.B.R.A.S., i. 376; A.S.I., vol. xxxviii, p. 9.)]