Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v1.c15.s6.10

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But there are other interesting aspects of this question, and these relate to the manner in which the soldiers were stirred to action, and the activities of the poets and generals during a campaign. Firishtah informs us that during the expedition of A.D. 1366, the king "commanded the brahmins to deliver every day to the troops discourses on the merit of slaughtering the Mahomedans, in order to excite the zeal of his soldiers. He encouraged the brahmins, also to arouse their indignation, and confirm their hatred of the enemy, by representing them as the destroyers of temples, and of the images of their gods, and also as the slaughterers of cows".²