A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): A Contribution to the History of India c12.42

c12.42

Muhammad passed the hot weather and the season of the early rains that year near Mudkal, and after being reinforced marched against Adoni—"in the plains of which, on the banks of the Tummedra (Tungabhadrâ), the roy of Beejanuggur had taken up his station in his own territories, having given the command of Oodnee to his sister's son. Here he had collected a great army, and brought elephants and all the splendid insignia of empire from Beejanuggur."¹