A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): A Contribution to the History of India c21.s3.t17.22
A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): A Contribution to the History of India c21.s3.t17.22
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c21.s3.t17.22
The King has a thousand wrestlers for these feasts who wrestle before the King, but not in our manner, for they strike and wound each other with two circlets with points³ which they carry in their hands to strike with, and the one most wounded goes and takes his reward in the shape of a silk cloth,⁴ such as the King gives to these wrestlers. They have a captain over them, and they do not perform any other service in the kingdom.