The Aravidu Dynasty of Vijayanagara, Vol. I v1.c10.50

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⁴ Faria y Sousa, I, p. 196; Barros, p. 438-43; Maffei, *Historiarum Indicarum*, p. 320-1. I do not know why Mr. Sewell, p. 334-5 identifies Rachol with Raichur; perhaps because of Ferishta, III, p. 49, who represents the river Krishna as flowing in its neighbourhood. But I rely more upon the Portuguese historians who placed this city in the vicinity of Goa. Faria y Sousa, after relating the defeat of the Bijapur Sultan, says: "Ruy de Mello, who was then at Goa, seeing the Idalcao (Adil Khan) discouraged on account of that disaster and perhaps distracted while thinking how to recover from it; and besides knowing that many people were fighting and robbing the mainland (*la tierra firme*) around: he seized it at the head of two hundred and fifty