A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): A Contribution to the History of India c15.34

c15.34

This was probably the powerful chief Narasimha Rāya, a relation of the king of Vijayanagar, who, intrusted with the government of large tracts, was rising rapidly to independence under the weak and feeble monarch whom he finally supplanted. The Sultan went to Kondapalle,³ and there was told that, at a distance of ten days' journey, "was the temple of Kunchy,⁴ the walls and roof of which were plated with gold, ornamented with precious stones;" upon receipt of which intelligence the Sultan is said to have made a forced march thither, taking with him only 6000 cavalry, and to have sacked the place.