Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v1.c8.s3.54

v1.c8.s3.54

As regards carts we may note that in about A.D. 1590 Rāja Nāyaka, son of Dēvappa Gauḍa, chief of the Haḍināḍ country, caused two breaches in a tank to be reconstructed by the hands of the cartmen of the Nandyāla country.⁵ The Vira Baṇajas who, as we have seen, penetrated into the regions of the six continents, could "on the moving cart they place their feet" as well as notice "a cart that has been robbed".⁶ The open space in front of the king's palace, according to Paes, was the road where passed "all the carts and conveyances carrying stores and everything else . . ."⁷