Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v1.c15.s6.38

v1.c15.s6.38

Firishtah narrates that one of the conditions imposed by Vijayanagara on Husain Nizām Shāh I, in A.D. 1559, was that he "should submit to pay Ramraj a visit, and receive a *pān* (betel leaf) from his hands". The Sultan came to the Hindu court and gave the keys of Kallyān to Rāma Rāja, and said, " 'I give them to you as a present'. Ramaraj immediately sent them to Ally Adil Shah, and gave Hoossein Nizam Shah *pān* . . ."³