The Aravidu Dynasty of Vijayanagara, Vol. I v1.c13.122

v1.c13.122

R. S Parameswara Aiyar, *l. c.*, p. 190. S. Mr. S. A. Ramanantha Ayyar in his learned article on *The Aruvaymoli Pass*, *l. c.*, p. 18, states that the retreat of Vitthala's army before Xavier "is perhaps reminiscent of a diplomatic mission, which this friend of the Travancore King 'Iniquitribirin' accomplished, and which stayed the punishing hand of the imperial Viceroy from committing much slaughter and shedding much innocent blood." We cannot support this view. The details given by the sources are so many and so characteristic that the account cannot be taken but literally, though no miracle is to be supposed to explain the case.