The Aravidu Dynasty of Vijayanagara, Vol. I v1.c15.45

v1.c15.45

On the other hand the Hindu army, according to Ferishta, consisted of seventy thousand horse and ninety thousand infantry ⁸, but the anonymous chronicler gives higher figures, viz. one hundred thousand horse and three hundred thousand infantry ⁹; and both Couto and Faria y Sousa, while agreeing as to the number of horse, state that the footsoldiers were more than six hundred thousand 1. Rama Raya and his two brothers were at the head of this formidable army. The so-called Emperor of Vijayanagara was then a very old man: according to Ferishta he was seventy 2; the *Burhan-i-Ma'asir* says he was eighty 3; but the Portuguese authors, who seem more reliable on this point, on account of their frequent intercourse with the court of Vijayanagara, state that he was in the 96th year of his age 4.