Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v1.c15.s7.30

v1.c15.s7.30

"They had not gone far when an alarm spread through the camp of the Hindoos, that Ahmud Shah (the Bāhmani Sultan) had crossed the river, and that the Ray was missing. The King entered the lines without opposition; and the soldiers who had taken Dew Ray, hoping to obtain more valuable plunder than sugar-cane, hastened to join their comrades, leaving him to shift for himself. Dew Ray fled, unnoticed, and about noon came up with some of his officers, by whom he was recognised, and received with great joy". His army began to re-assume some kind of order but he was compelled to fall back on Vijayanagara.¹