Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v1.c15.s2.t5: V Bulls
Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v1.c15.s2.t5
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V Bulls
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About the contingent of bulls too very little can be gathered from reliable sources. The Bakhair of Rāma Rāja gives an incredible number of bulls in the army: 9,876, 543,210,000! We do not know whether this formidable figure is in any way trustworthy. While describing the conquests of Kaṇṭhirava Narasa Oḍeyar, who "conquered Denaikancotta (Daṇāyakanakoṭṭa) Sattimungal (Satyamangalam) and other places," Wilks in his Sketches says that "Nagana Naid, described to be the head of the bullock department of Acheta Deva Rayeel of Vijayanuggur, founded the dynasty of the Naieks of Madura about the year 1532, with the aid of a colony of Telingas, which seems to have been planted in that country sometime before by the government of Vijeyanuggur".¹ Nuniz, as we shall see, speaks of sumpter-mules and asses, and of great numbers of oxen which carried all the supplies of the camp.²
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¹ Wilks, Sketches, I., p. 54, n. (1810); I., p. 34, n. (1869).
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² Infra, A Picture of the Hindu Camp.