A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): A Contribution to the History of India c21.s3.t15.2

c21.s3.t15.2

BEFORE⁴ the death of King Crisnarao from his disease as has been before recounted, being sick and already despairing of his life, he made a will, saying that of his three brothers whom, at the time when they raised him to be King, he had sent to be confined in the fortress of Chamdegary¹ with his nephew, son of the King Busbalrao,² they should make King his brother Achetarao³ who now reigns; for the latter seemed to him to be better fitted for that than any of the others, for the reason that he himself had no son of fit age for the throne, but only one of the age of eighteen months. After his death Salvanay became minister of the kingdom, and governed it till the coming of King Achitarao from the fortress of Chamdegary where he was detained. And he further left in his will that he should take Billgao,⁴ and should make war on the Ydallcão.