Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v1.c15.s6.15

v1.c15.s6.15

Nuniz writes about a king whom he had never seen and about whom even the people of Vijayanagara could have had but dim recollection. Nevertheless on the evidence of Firishtah, who speaks of the events of A.D. 1366, one may be inclined to give some credit to the observations of Nuniz. On the strength of these two witnesses, it is not improbable that the Regent, as is related in the Bakhair,² may have delivered a speech to his soldiers on the battlefield of Rākshasa-Taṅgaḍi.