The Aravidu Dynasty of Vijayanagara, Vol. I v1.c11.106

v1.c11.106

Rama Raya, however, was not blind in his arrogance. He had long foreseen a future attack of the Muhammadan powers on his capital. In order to repulse this danger, early in the first year of the reign of Sadasiva he had constructed another bastion in the walls of Vijayanagara under the superintendence of Era Krishnappa Nayaka, the head of the Belur family, who obtained the title of bearer of Sadasiva's betel-bag ¹. Moreover he had fortified the hills of the northern frontier in the Bellary and Cuddapah Districts, by erecting new forts and repairing the old ones built in the time of Krishna Deva Raya ². But all these preparations proved useless before the terrible onslaught of combined Muhammadan power.