[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.saletore-1934) › v2.c19.s3.46 # Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c19.s3.46 Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c19.s3.46 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c19.s3.46](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.saletore-1934.v2.c19.s3.46) ¹ \*Vasiṣṭha\*, XI, 17, p. 51. ² \*Manu\*, III, 124-5, p. 98. ³ \*Ibid\*, III, 126, p. 98. ⁴ For further notices of Brahmans, see Bāṇa, \*Harṣacharita\*, pp. 32-3, 66; 72; 78; 79; 233; Watters, \*Yuan Chwang\*, I, pp. 159-60; Foster, \*Early Travels in India\*, pp. 19, 21-2 where an account of the north Indian Brahmans by Ralph Fitch is given (A.D. 1583-91); Lockman, \*Travels\*, II, p. 380, seq., where the Jesuits, (in their usual disparaging terms) speak of the philosophy, mathematics and astronomy of the Brahmans. For a wholesale condemnation of the Brahmans, who, according to the Jesuits, were "a great Burthen to the Public", "proud", "artful", "great impostors", read Lockman, ibid., I, pp. 360 (n), 361, where reference is given to \*Thirty-four Conferences between the Danish Missionaries\*, etc. Trans. by Philips, London, 1719, for further enlightenment on the subject. The observations of the Abbé Dubois, whose "pen would refuse to describe all their wrong doing", may also be noted in this connection. \*Hind. Man. Cust.\* I, pp. 309, seq. (1897). Another writer, whose views on the subject may also be read, is William Ward. In his book called \*A View of the History, Literature and Mythology of the Hindoos\*, III, pp. 67-71, 84 seq. - [Previous: v2.c19.s3.45](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.saletore-1934.v2.c19.s3.45) - [Next: v2.c20.s1.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.saletore-1934.v2.c20.s1.1) - [Up: v2.c19.s3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.saletore-1934.v2.c19.s3) ## Linked texts (3) - [Mānava Dharmaśāstra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu.3.126) — Manu & Bhṛgu, Sanskrit - [Vasiṣṭhadharmasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.dharma.vasistha.11.17) — Vasiṣṭha, Sanskrit - [Harṣacarita](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.harsacarita) — Bāṇabhaṭṭa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.saletore-1934.v2.c19.s3.46](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.saletore-1934.v2.c19.s3.46) · Pramāṇa