Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v1.c9.s6.3

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The seat of the Empire, which immediately after the battle of Rākshasa-Taṅgaḍi, took shelter at Tirupati,⁴ was finally fixed by Tirumala at Penugoṇḍa. This is confirmed by Anquetil du Perron, the Chikkadēvarāya Vamśāvali, and Caesar Frederick. "Anquetil du Perron states that 'not long after he (Tirumala) transferred his court to Panegorde' (Penugonda), and the Chikkadevaraya Vamsavali records that after a short time he changed his capital from Vijayanagara to Penukonda".⁵ But Frederick gives us the date of this event: "In the yeere of our Lord God, 1567, for the ill successe that the people of Bezeneger had, in that their Citie was sacked by the foure Kings, the King with his court went to dwell in a Castle eight dayes journey up in the land from Bezeneger, called Penugonde".¹