Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v1.c15.s6.31

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This usage was by no means confined only to the Yādavas of Dēvagiri, and their feudatories in the north of the Karṇāṭaka. Kōṭe Sōmeya Nayaka was the ruler of Paṭṭi Pombuchchapura (mod. Humacha, Nagar tāluka) in A.D. 1290. He marched against Baṅki Nāyaka and pitched his camp in Kānilachelave. In the course of the siege, Sōyya (i.e., the ruler Sōmeya Nāyaka) called Masūr Jakkaya's son Bammeya Nāyaka and "giving him betel leaf from his tray (*pariyāḷada viḷeyava koḍut int endam*) and holding him with his lotus hands, directed him in the full character of hero to conquer the hill fort".⁵ Three years later (A.D. 1293) Kōṭi Nāyaka, the ruler of Sētu, sent for Bīre Nāyaka, and ordered him thus: "Recover the cows which the daḷavāyi of the Yādava family, Paraśurāma Dēva by his servant Mojoru has impounded, and come", and giving him betel leaf said, "March with all your army". Bīre Nāyaka hastened away with his army, released the cows but fell in the fight with the Yādava general Paraśurāma Dēva.¹