A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar c12.55
A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar c12.55
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c12.55
Besides being the head of the government and leader in war, the king also held the first rank in society. He patronized poetry and the arts, and kept open house. War and women were, in fact, the universal preoccupations of the leisured classes, besides wine and song and the dance. The king and his ēnādis with their retinues must have formed a gay, boisterous crew at the top of society with a boundless capacity for enjoying the pleasures of life.