A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): A Contribution to the History of India c14.65

c14.65

“He called¹ a general council of his nobility and principal bramins, observing to them that as his country of Carnatic in extent, population, and revenue far exceeded the territories of the house of Bahmenee; and in like manner his army was far more numerous, he wished therefore to explore the cause of the mussulmauns’ successes, and his being reduced to pay them tribute. Some said . . . that the superiority of the mussulmauns arose from two circumstances: one, all their horses being strong, and able to bear more fatigue than the weak, lean animals of Carnatic; the other, a great body of excellent archers always kept up by the sultans of the house of Bahmenee, and of whom the roy had but few in his army.