The Aravidu Dynasty of Vijayanagara, Vol. I v1.c16.160

v1.c16.160

Nor can the following extract of the same writer be understood in a general sense: "The country has been seized by the tributary chiefs, each of whom hath assumed an independent power in his own district" ⁷. Of which Sewell's opinion is nothing else but a replica: "The nobles", says he, "began to throw off their allegiance, and one after another to proclaim their independence. The country was in a state of anarchy" ¹. Ferishta spoke probably of the feudatory chiefs of the North of the Empire, adjoining the Muhammadan possessions; but his statement cannot refer to the states of the South, which we know from the Krishnapuram plates to have been on friendly terms with the imperial power.