A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): A Contribution to the History of India c20.15

c20.15

“Jaga Râya sent to tell the King that he wished to do homage to him, and so also did Tima Naique and Maca Râya. The poor King allowed them to enter. Jaga Râya selected five thousand men, and leaving the rest outside the city he entered the fortress with these chosen followers. The two other conspirators did the same, each of them bringing with them two thousand selected men. The fortress has two walls. Arrived at these, Jaga Râya left at the first gate a thousand men, and at the second a thousand. The Dalavay seized two other gates of the fortress, on the other side. There being some tumult, and a cry of treason being raised, the King ordered the palace gates to be closed, but the conspirators as soon as they reached them began to break them down. Maca Râya was the first to succeed, crying out that he would deliver up the King to them; and he did so, sending the King a message that if he surrendered he would pledge his word to do him no ill, but that the nephew of Jaga Râya must be King, he being the son of the late King.