A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): A Contribution to the History of India c21.s3.t17.67

c21.s3.t17.67

¹ See the last sentence of the chronicle of Paes (above, p. 290), where a town “on the east” is called the new city which Krishna Deva built in honour of his favourite wife. The writer has evidently been confused in that statement, for it seems clear that the town so founded was Nâgalâpur, the old name for Hospett, with which it is distinctly identified in other places. This town “on the east” is said, in the sentence referred to, to bear the name “Ardegema,” and the locality is hard to determine. “East” of what? If east of Nâgalâpur be meant, then Ardegema or Ondegema (*gema* probably represents *grâma*, “village”) might have been a suburb of that town. If east of the capital be intended, I cannot identify the place. But these places evidently were close to the capital, bordering on the crown lands. This, I take it, is the meaning of “bordering on the lands (*terra*) of Bisnaga.”