Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v1.c11.s2.t4.34

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What the relatives of the gallant old Hindu Regent did on hearing the reports of the great disaster is told to us, as already remarked, by Caesar Frederick in A.D. 1567. They fled, taking with them as their prisoner the Emperor Sadāśiva.¹ We have likewise dwelt on the revolt of the northern provinces of Adōni, Baṅkāpur, Dhārwar, Jerreh, Chandragutti, Karūr and Tirukal, and on the rebellion of the chieftain of Kārkala in Tuḷuva.² The insecurity which prevailed over some parts of the Vijayanagara Empire is shown in the deplorable fate that befell poor Caesar Frederick on the outskirts of Aṅkōla in A.D. 1567.³ That same eye-witness, as we have seen, relates the dishonest though dire methods to which the Hindu monarch had recourse in raising a force of cavalry. Finally, we saw the administrative changes which Tirumala undertook to revive the stability of the Hindu Empire.