[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): A Contribution to the History of India](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sewell-1900) › c19.178 # A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): A Contribution to the History of India c19.178 A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): A Contribution to the History of India c19.178 - **Language:** English ### [c19.178](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sewell-1900.c19.178) ² I have seen on several occasions bodies of men collected together at Vijayanagar and the neighbourhood, dressed and armed in a manner which they assured me was traditional. They wore rough tunics and short drawers of cotton, stained to a rather dark red-brown colour, admirably adapted for forest work, but of a deeper hue than our English khaki. They grimly assured me that the colour concealed to a great extent the stains of blood from wounds. Their weapons were for the most part spears. Some had old country swords and daggers. - [Previous: c19.177](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sewell-1900.c19.177) - [Next: c19.179](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sewell-1900.c19.179) - [Up: c19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sewell-1900.c19) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sewell-1900.c19.178](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sewell-1900.c19.178) · Pramāṇa