Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v1.c15.s6.6

v1.c15.s6.6

This must evidently have been after the customary consultation with the Brahmans and nobles who formed the King's Council. Firishtah, while narrating the events of a great campaign, which he assigns to the year A.D. 1366, relates that "The Raja, Kṛṣṇa Ray, on receiving the intelligence (of the movement of the Muhammadans) summoned the nobles of his court, and consulted on the best mode of opposing the Mahomedans".⁴