Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c25.s2.33

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That great monarch was himself proficient in music. One of his titles as given in a record dated A. D. 1528-9 is the following : "He who was unrivalled on the battlefield (*as well as*) in music and rhetoric."⁴ We have ample evidence to prove the first assertion relating to the valour of that ruler. From Nārāyaṇa's *Rāghavēndravijayam* we learn that Kṛṣṇa Dēva Rāya presented his tutor Kṛṣṇa, who taught him to play on the *vīṇā*, costly pearl necklaces and jewels as *guru-dakshiṇe*.⁵