The Aravidu Dynasty of Vijayanagara, Vol. I v1.c7.36
The Aravidu Dynasty of Vijayanagara, Vol. I v1.c7.36
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of learning' in another grant of the same, dated 1561 ¹; in the same grant he is also mentioned as 'famous for valour'²; and in the Krishnapuram plates of Sadasiva he is said to be 'like the flower-arrowed Kama' and 'to rule his kingdom well'³. In a copper-plate sasanam of Vijayanagara he is simply said to have 'reigned gloriously' ⁴, which sounds as an empty boast, when said of a Monarch who died so young. But judging from the grief of his subjects at the time of his death we can conclude that he was an able and promising youth: he died soon 'owing to the ill-fortune of the people', as we read in a grant of Sadasiva of 1545 ⁵; or 'to the ill-fortune of his subjects' ⁶; or 'owing to the bad luck of his subjects' ⁷.