A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): A Contribution to the History of India c17.s1.31

c17.s1.31

"While the governor¹ was in the Red Sea, the King Crisnao Rao of Bisnaga covered the plains and hills and stopped the flow of the rivers² with an army of thirty-five thousand horse, seven hundred and thirty-three thousand foot, and five hundred and eighty-six elephants carrying castles with four men in each, and twelve thousand watermen . . . and baggage in such quantities that the courtesans alone numbered more than twenty thousand."³