A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): A Contribution to the History of India c14.74

c14.74

“This unnatural brother, thus losing the hope of enticing the king to his house, drew his poignard, and struck him therewith with several violent blows, so that the prince fell at the back of his throne. The traitor, thus believing that the king was dead, left there one of his confidants to cut off the monarch’s head; then going out of the hall he ascended the portico of the palace, and thus addressed the people: ‘I have slain the king, his brothers, and such and such emirs, Brahmins, and viziers; now I am king.’