A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): A Contribution to the History of India c19.53

c19.53

Immediately afterwards Asada began to intrigue with the king of Vijayanagar, and being invited to visit that city on the occasion of one of the great *Mahânavamî* festivals, left Belgaum with 13,000 men and 200 elephants. Before starting he wrote to Da Cunha, asking that Figueiredo might be sent to accompany him, and promising to obtain for the Portuguese a definite cession of the lands from the Râya, since these had formerly been the latter’s possession. Accordingly Figueiredo left for Vijayanagar, but learned that the Khân had already arrived there and had joined the king. The Râya received Asada favourably, and, as a present, gave him two towns, “Tunge and Turugel,”¹ since he hoped for his aid against the Sultan.