A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): A Contribution to the History of India c19.265

c19.265

³ The Italian traveller Pietro della Valle was at Ikkeri at the close of the year 1623, and gives an interesting account of all that he saw, and what befell him there. He went with an embassy from Goa to that place. "This Prince *Venktapa Naieka* was sometime Vassal and one of the ministers of the great King of *Vidiâ Nagâr* . . . but after the downfall of the king . . . Venktapâ Naieka . . . remain'd absolute Prince of the State of which he was Governour, which also, being a good souldier, he hath much enlarged."