The Aravidu Dynasty of Vijayanagara, Vol. I v1.c27.79

v1.c27.79

News of this rising was reported to Venkata by the same *adigar*. But his letter "related the events falsely", says the same Coutinho, "and the Queen, who has paramount power all over the country at present, excited the King against the Portuguese on account of this affair; so that, after the aforesaid letters (of the *adigar*) were read in the presence of the whole court, the sovereign...became so furious that, though usually as meek as a lamb, on that occasion he looked like a lion, and said several times that he would destroy even the foundations of our city; to do which he appointed some captains, declaring that he did not want friendship with the Portuguese any more, and that he would call the Dutch, and so on." One of the things he said, according to another Jesuit letter, was that "if the *adigar* had committed anyoffence, they (the Portuguese) ought to have represented it to him and he would have punished him”. “His courtiers said”, continues Coutinho, “that they had never seen him so much excited as on this occasion”.